Associate Dean Daryl Lim publishes on generative AI governance in George Mason Law Review

CARLISLE, Pa.—Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Partnerships Daryl Lim has published “The Surprising Virtues of Heterogeneity: Legal Pluralism and the Governance of Generative AI” in the George Mason Law Review. The article advances a novel framework for regulating generative artificial intelligence (AI) by embracing doctrinal diversity rather than pursuing centralized federal control.

In the article (which you can read here), Lim argues that generative AI regulation should draw strength from the interaction of privacy law, the right of publicity, copyright, and competition principles. He contends that the United States’ pluralistic legal structure offers adaptive advantages in responding to identity-based and expressive harms caused by AI systems. The article proposes a narrowly scoped federal data right to complement, rather than displace, existing legal doctrines. The work reflects Lim’s broader research agenda on AI governance, intellectual property, and innovation policy and informs his teaching in antitrust, intellectual property, and technology law.

The George Mason Law Review is a nationally recognized flagship law journal associated with George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, which is widely known for its scholarship in law and economics, antitrust, and regulatory theory. The publication contributes to national debates on AI governance at a time of heightened legislative and judicial attention to generative AI technologies.

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.