Associate Dean Daryl Lim addresses international audience at Seminar on Competition and Commercial Law in the Digital Era

CARLISLE, Pa.—Associate Dean Daryl Lim spoke at the 15th International Seminar on Competition and Commercial Law in the Digital Era. The event, held virtually in October 2025, convened scholars and practitioners from premier institutions worldwide to address the complex intersection of competition, innovation, and artificial intelligence (AI).

Lim’s session, “The Law and Ethics of AI,” explored how overlapping areas of law, such as antitrust, copyright, privacy, and the right of publicity, can together create a more inclusive and effective framework for AI governance. Building on his current scholarship on “polyphonic AI regulation,” Lim highlighted how jurisdictions across the United States, Europe, and Asia are experimenting with distinct yet complementary approaches to regulating AI.

His participation reinforced Penn State Dickinson Law’s leadership in fostering globally engaged, forward-looking conversations on law and technology.

The Shalom Comparative Research Institute and the Eliyahu Law & Tech Center at Ono Academic College organized the International Seminar on Competition and Commercial Law in the Digital Era. Co-hosted with Fordham Law School and Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, the seminar featured prominent speakers, including Professor Ariel Ezrachi (University of Oxford), Professor Ryan Abbott (University of Surrey), Professor Deborah Gerhardt (University of North Carolina), and Dr. Patricia Vargas-Leon (Yale Law School). The program’s focus on artificial intelligence, competition, intellectual property, and data governance reflects the growing international collaboration among leading legal scholars to shape responsible innovation policy.

Daryl Lim is the H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law at Penn State Dickinson Law. He is also the Associate Dean for Research & 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 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. In 2024, he was appointed to the 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.