Tzu-I Lee

Ph.D. | J.D. & LL.M. | CIPP/US
Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Patent, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST)

Contact

TEL：02-2730-1185

Email：tlee@mail.ntust.edu.tw

Office：TR-826

Research Interest

IP Law; AI Law and Policy; Legal Geography; Cultural and Creative Industries

EDUCATION

LL.M., UC Berkeley School of Law

- Law & Technology Certificate, UC Berkeley School of Law

J.D., University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) School of Law (then John Marshall Law School), Dean’s Scholarship Recipient
Ph.D., National Taiwan University (NTU), in Geography

- Certificate Program of Law, NTU School of Professional Education and Continuing Studies

M.A., University of Warwick, in European Cultural Policy and Administration
B.A., National Chengchi University, Summa Cum Laude in Philosophy

B.B.A., National Chengchi University, in International Business

EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor of Law, Graduate Institute of Patent, NTUST (2022–present)
Member of Generative AI Risk Advisory Committee, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2023–present)
Member of the Global Legal Geography Community (2023–present)
CIPP/US, Member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) (2020–present)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University
Legal Extern, Trademark Clinic of UIC Law
Judicial Extern, Federal Judge’s chambers, United States District Court, N.D. Illinois
Legal Extern, The Holocaust Art Restitution Project, New York/DC/Chicago
Key Account Manager, Hi-Ace Trading Co., Ltd., Chun Yu Group
Researcher, Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

RESEARCH PROJECTS

PI, "Constructing Localized Legal Geography of Intellectual Property: The Interplay of Law, Technology, and Taiwanese Pop Music Industry," sponsored by the National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan, 2024–2026.
Subproject Co-PI, Research Group on “Law, Science and Technology, ” sponsored by the Institutum Iurisprudentiae Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2024–2026.
Co-PI, “Regulatory Frameworks for Artificial Intelligence: A Human-centered Approach,” (Phase II) sponsored by the National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan, 2023–2026.
PI, “Rethinking Trade Secrecy and Public Interests: from the US-China Tech War to the Opacity of Artificial Intelligence Systems,” sponsored by the National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan, 2023–2024.
Co-PI, “Regulatory Frameworks for Artificial Intelligence: A Human-centered Approach,” (Phase I) sponsored by the National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan, 2022–2023.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, “Regulatory Frameworks for Artificial Intelligence: A Human-centered Approach,” (Phase I) sponsored by the National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan, 2020–2022.

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

Tzu-I Lee, “Bordering Secrecy: An Empirical Study on Cross-Border Trade Secret Misappropriation in the Semiconductor Sector,” 39(2) Connecticut Journal of International Law 166–237 (2024). [link]
Tzu-I Lee, “A Battle Between Moral Rights and Freedom of Expression: How Would Moral Rights Empower the ‘Charging Bull’ Against the ‘Fearless Girl’?,” 117 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 672 (2018). [link]

Book and Book Chapters (including translations)

Translation of Chinese edition for Frank Pasquale’s New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI (Harvard University Press, 2020) (2023).

Media Articles

Mark Cohen, Tzu-I Lee, and Jacob Lahana, “The FTC’s War Against US Technology Competition with China,” IAM Media (Jan. 2023). [link]

Conference Papers and Presentations

Tzu-I Lee, "Mapping Cultural Enclosure: The Spatial Dynamics of IP Law in Taiwanese Mandopop," presentation at 2025 Law & Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA (May 2025).
Tzu-I Lee & Min-Syuan Kang, "Governing Data in Urban Taiwan: A Legal-Geographic Perspective on Data Governance," presentation at 2025 Law and Geography in Urban Asia, Asia Research Institute of National University of Singapore, Singapore (Feb. 2025).
Tzu-I Lee, "The Copyright Law and Human Creative Autonomy," presentation at 2024 Symposium on the Theory and Practice of Artificial Intelligence Law - Applications and Liability of AI, Institutum Iurisprudentiae Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (Nov. 2024) (in Mandarin).
Tzu-I Lee, “Island Musicscape: The Legal Geography of Taiwanese Popular Music and Intellectual Property Rights,” presentation at 2024 Annual Geography Conference "No Island Is an Islan: New Perspectives for Island Studies," Taipei, Taiwan (Apr. 2024) (in Mandarin).
Tzu-I Lee, “The Role of Machine in Content Production: Generative AI’s Challenges to Human Authorship,” presentation at the Copyright Law Conference, Taiwan Intellectual Property Law Association, Chiayi, Taiwan (Oct. 2023) (in Mandarin).
Tzu-I Lee, “Bordering Secrecy: An Empirical Study on Cross-Border Trade Secret Misappropriation in the Semiconductor Sector,” presentation at 2023 Law & Society Annual Meeting “Separate and Unequal,” San Juan, Puerto Rico (Jun. 2023).
Tzu-I Lee, “Trade Secret Misappropriation in Semiconductor Industry,” presentation at the American Branch of the International Law Association for International Law Weekend (ILW 2021) (virtual) (Oct. 2021).
Tzu-I Lee, “Digital Archives and the New Possibilities for Museums Value: A Case Study of Local Community Museums in Taiwan,” presentation at the Sino-U.S. International Conference for Public Administration, Beijing, China (Jun. 2016) (in Mandarin).
Tzu-I Lee, “A Geopolitical Connotation of Intellectual Property Institution in Taiwan and China,” presentation at the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, USA (Apr. 2015).
Tzu-I Lee, “Tensions between Taiwan Cultural Industries and Copyrights: The Image of Modernity under a Geopolitics and Nationalism Context,” presentation at the East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography, Osaka, Japan (Jul. 2014).
Patricia Huang & Tzu-I Lee, “Connecting People Through Rhythm,” presentation at the International Council of Museums (UNESCO), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Jun. 2013).

HONORS & AWARDS

Teaching Awards (教學優良獎), NTUST (2025)
Distinguished and Excellent Mentors (優良輔導老師獎), NTUST (2024)
Dean’s Scholarship, UIC Law (2016–2019).
Founder’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship, UIC Review of Intellectual Property Law (RIPL) (2018 & 2019).
Fourth Place, 1L Alternative Dispute Resolution Competition, UIC Law (2017).
Distinguished Service as A Student Organization, UIC Law (2016, 2017, & 2018).
Outstanding Performance Civil Servants (績優人員表揚), Ministry of Culture, Taiwan (2011).

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