Associate Dean Daryl Lim discusses AI, IP, and antitrust on podcast

CARLISLE, Pa.—Daryl Lim, associate dean for research and strategic partnerships at Penn State Dickinson Law, was featured as a guest on the “Legal Innovation Spotlight” podcast. In the episode (which you can watch here), Lim discussed how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping intellectual property, antitrust enforcement, and the design of AI governance frameworks.

Drawing on his scholarship and leadership in research partnerships, Lim explained his concept of the “antitrust AI revolution,” including how AI can both influence market behavior through pricing, ranking, and recommendation systems and serve as a forensic tool for regulators assessing competitive effects. He also outlined his “polyphonic regulation” approach to AI governance, emphasizing the value of legal and institutional pluralism across privacy, publicity, copyright, consumer protection, courts, agencies, and states. Lim connected these themes to professional formation in legal education, describing how law schools can build AI literacy and responsible experimentation into training for an AI-augmented legal practice.

“Legal Innovation Spotlight” is a professional podcast focused on legal innovation, legal technology, and adjacent developments affecting the legal industry, with an audience that includes law firm innovation professionals, academics, and industry leaders. In the interview, Lim also addressed emerging developments in AI licensing and litigation, the challenges of compliance across jurisdictions, and how equity-focused design and governance can help widen access to the benefits of the intellectual property system.

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.