HIGH-LEVEL UNITED NATIONS BODY IDENTIFIES DARYL LIM AS AI EXPERT
March 2024 — Associate Dean Daryl Lim has been invited to participate in a consultative process by the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence (AIAB), The AIAB’s Interim Report Governing AI for Humanity was published in December 2023 with an initial proposal to strengthen international governance of AI by carrying out seven critical functions, which would contribute to reaching the Sustainable Development Goals. The Final Report of the Advisory Body is expected in Summer 2024.
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 Innovation 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 an affiliate at the Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence.
Professor Lim is an award-winning author, observer, and commentator on national and global trends in IP and competition policy and how they influence and are influenced by law, technology, economics, and politics. He helps policymakers, attorneys, corporate counsel, scholars, and the public understand the world around them. 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 in the US IP Alliance. In December 2022, the American Law Institute elected Professor Lim to its membership based on demonstrated excellence and outstanding professional achievement. In 2023, the US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission recognized him as “a leading expert in antitrust law and economics” and 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.