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Daryl Lim is the H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law at Penn State Dickinson Law. He is also the Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Partnerships and Founding Director of the Intellectual Property (IP) Law and Innovation Initiative. At the university level, he is a co-hire at the Institute of Computational and Data Sciences and was appointed to its Research Council in 2025. He is also an affiliate at the Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence.

He is admitted to practice in New York and Singapore.

He is an award-winning author, observer, and commentator on IP and competition policy trends and how they influence and are influenced by law, technology, economics, and politics. He helps stakeholders understand the world around them. He consults internationally on various IP and antitrust issues.

He is a founding member of the Global IP Alliance and its local chapters in Pennsylvania and Illinois. In addition, he serves as Co-Chair of the University Education Committee and on the Executive Committee of the US IP Alliance. He started the Practicing Law Institute’s Global IP Spotlight series and the Penn State Dickinson Law Profiles in Leadership series and serves as moderator for both.

In 2022, the American Law Institute elected Professor Lim to its membership based on demonstrated excellence and outstanding professional achievement. He serves on the Members Consultative Group of the Restatement of the Law, Copyright. In 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission recognized him as “a leading expert in antitrust law and economics.”

The IAM Strategy 300, a guide to the industry pioneers with “exceptional skill sets, as well as profound insights into the development, creation and management of IP value,” named him to its World’s Leading IP Strategists 2023 list. In 2024, he was appointed to a consultative group advising the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence. In 2025, he received the IP Professor of the Year Award at the Global Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence & Technology Conclave & Awards.

He is under contract with Oxford University Press for a new book titled Infringement in Intellectual Property Law and is co-editor of Inclusive Innovation, Big Data, And Artificial Intelligence. His publications feature, or are forthcoming, in leading flagship and specialty law reviews, including the Florida Law Review, the George Mason Law Review, the Emory Law Journal, the Stanford Technology Law Review, and the Berkley Technology Law Journal. Thomson Reuters (West) selected three of his articles as the best IP articles of the year in 2018, 2021, and 2022.

He has contributed to practitioner-focused publications for the American Bar Association, Law360, IPWatchdog, IP Watch, and IP Magazine. In addition, legal publications, specialty blogs such as Patently-O, and mainstream media sources such as Reuters, BBC News, Forbes, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, the National Law Review, Fast Company, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Capitol Forum, Slate, The Hill, The Daily Journal, RealClearPolicy, USA Today, and Sueddeutsche Dossier featured his views on current legal developments.

He serves as a peer reviewer for the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (Oxford University Press), Cambridge University Press, John Wiley & Sons, Carolina Academic Press, Nature: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Oxford Intersections: AI and Society (Oxford University Press), and the International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law.

He has taught at the National University of Singapore, Fordham University School of Law, East China University of Political Science and Law, National Law School of India University, Universidad de los Andes, Peking University School of Transnational Law, and other institutions globally.

CV: November_2025

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Two Conversations on Courts, Speech, and Power | Penn State Dickinson Law

Two timely conversations this week at Penn State Dickinson Law, each tackling the relationship between law, institutions, and public discourse from a different angle. On Monday, Drexel University's Thomas R. Kline School of Law Professor Amy Landers joined us for "Rage Bait and the First Amendment," hosted by my colleague Professor Jonathan D'Silva. The discussion explored how First Amendment doctrine interacts with today’s attention economy, where platform design, algorithmic amplification, and emotionally charged content shape not only what we see, but what gets created. The conversation pushed beyond familiar “marketplace of ideas” assumptions and asked what deliberative democracy looks like in an environment optimized for engagement rather than reflection. On Tuesday, Penn State College of the Liberal Arts Professor Rachel Shelden presented "The Political Supreme Court: Ethics, Partisanship, and Power in Early America," hosted by my colleague Professor Jud Mathews. Drawing from her forthcoming book, Professor Shelden challenged the modern narrative of a depoliticized Court, showing how early justices openly participated in partisan life while shaping constitutional meaning. The historical account offers a useful lens for thinking about the Court’s institutional role today. Both sessions drew strong engagement across our University Park and Carlisle communities, as well as online participants. We’re grateful to our speakers and hosts for facilitating conversations that connect doctrine, history, and contemporary challenges in such a substantive way.
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From Theory to Practice | AI, IP, and Innovation in Columbus, OH

A productive time in Columbus, OH, where conversations around AI, intellectual property, and innovation are quickly moving from theory to practice. It was great to join Dan Brown, PhD (Northwestern University) | Tony Trippe Owens Corning) | Phil Hartstein (Soryn IP Capital Management) on a panel on “AI + IP = ROI” at the IP Awareness Summit 2026 hosted at COSI - Center of Science and Industry. Dan, Tony, and Phil were excellent panelists. Our discussion focused on how AI is reshaping the way organizations create, evaluate, and extract value from intellectual property. Thank you to Bruce Berman and his team for curating and convening such a thoughtful, timely program. Frederic "Dr. B" Bertley and Sara Leikin, Ed.D, Ed. D., were gracious hosts who respectively spoke eloquently on trust, transparency, and continued learning and fighting negative intellectual property stereotypes. The program as a whole benefited from a deep and diverse bench of speakers, and I am grateful for the many insights shared across panels. It was a pleasure to reconnect with colleagues and to engage with new voices at the event. It was also valuable to spend time with colleagues at The Ohio State University. Conversations with Joshua Gagliardi and Andrew Frueh highlighted how technology is transforming professional education, particularly in fields like nursing, where simulation, interface design, and human-centered systems intersect in powerful ways. Allison Gaul | Terry Hart | Albhy Galuten | Jaci McDole | Tiffany Norwood | Ian D. McClure | Massyl M. | David Mess | Wayne Stacy | Diane Gabl Kratz, JD | James Conley | Arlyne Simon, Ph.D. | Corey Salsberg | Jamie Simpson
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Chicago Conversations | AI, Law, and Community

Congratulations to Fanaaka Chidakwa, who successfully defended his SJD candidacy. Fanaaka's research focuses on how advances in AI are reshaping international humanitarian law. His dissertation interrogates concepts such as perfidy. I look forward to seeing how Fanaaka continues to develop this work. Photo: with Fanaaka's supervisor, Professor Ido Kilovaty, peers who came to support him, as well as my colleagues Professor Amy C. Gaudion and Lindsey Kurtz, who joined me as committee members for Fanaaka's oral defense.
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SJD Oral Defense | AI, Cyber Operations, and IHL Principles

Congratulations to Fanaaka Chidakwa, who successfully defended his SJD candidacy. Fanaaka's research focuses on how advances in AI are reshaping international humanitarian law. His dissertation interrogates concepts such as perfidy. I look forward to seeing how Fanaaka continues to develop this work. Photo: with Fanaaka's supervisor, Professor Ido Kilovaty, peers who came to support him, as well as my colleagues Professor Amy C. Gaudion and Lindsey Kurtz, who joined me as committee members for Fanaaka's oral defense.
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Critical Pedagogy and Constitutional Law | Penn State Dickinson Law

Associate Dean for Antiracism and Critical Pedagogy Shaakirrah Sanders gave a thought-provoking CLE at Penn State Dickinson Law in Carlisle, with University Park faculty colleagues and alumni joining over Zoom. Her presentation, “What is Critical Pedagogy? Integrating the Tribal Commerce Clause into Constitutional Law I & II,” invited us to reconsider how constitutional law is taught and, more fundamentally, how legal education shapes students' engagement with history, structure, and justice. Dean Sanders brought both intellectual depth and practical insight to the discussion, drawing on her work across constitutional law, criminal procedure, the First Amendment, and equal protection.
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University Park Coffee Hour | Penn State Berkey Creamery & Penn State Dickinson Law

Great conversations often start with something simple: coffee—and in this case, ice cream. I had the pleasure of hosting a University Park Coffee Hour at the Penn State Berkey Creamery with students from my antitrust course, and the thoughtful exchange on the paths they are charting into the profession. I was especially delighted to hear about their study abroad plans. These experiences will add an important global dimension to their legal training and shape how they approach complex, cross-border issues. With Timothy Carroll, Jonathan Kelso, and Matt Fortin.
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