Associate Dean Daryl Lim invited to AALS AI Advisory Committee

CARLISLE—Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Partnerships Daryl Lim has been invited to serve on an advisory committee for a major research project led by the Association of American Law Schools and West Academic, a BARBRI company, examining the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in legal education.

The project will investigate student, faculty, and law school leadership attitudes toward and use of AI. Lim’s participation builds on his scholarship, teaching, and public engagement at the intersection of AI, intellectual property, competition law, and legal education. As a member of the advisory committee, he will provide input on the project’s research questions, study design, and survey questionnaire content to help ensure that the research is useful to law schools and legal education stakeholders.

Earlier this year, AALS and West Academic announced a multiyear strategic partnership to deepen the legal academy’s engagement with artificial intelligence. The research project is expected to field surveys in August, conduct analysis during the fall, and present findings at the AALS Annual Meeting in New York in January 2027. The advisory committee will help shape a national study on how AI is being used and understood across legal education.

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.