Professor Ching-Fu Lin

Overview

Ching-Fu Lin is Professor of Law at National Tsing Hua University, where he teaches international law and global governance, global health law, artificial intelligence law and policy, and law and technology. Professor Lin received his LLM and SJD from Harvard Law School, with the honour of John Gallup Laylin Memorial Prize and Yong K Kim Memorial Prize. He also holds a double degree in law and chemical engineering from National Taiwan University. He has held visiting positions at Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation at UNSW Sydney, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and Brocher Foundation, among others. He currently serves as Co-Chair of the International Law and Technology Interest Group of the American Society of International Law.

At Melbourne Law School, Professor Lin now serves as a Senior Fellow (honorary) and teaches AI Law and Policy in Asia. Trained as both a lawyer and an engineer, his work touches upon issues of international law and technology and has appeared in European Journal of International Law, International & Comparative Law Quarterly, Harvard International Law Journal, Virginia Journal of International Law, Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, among others. He has also co-edited books in such fields, including “Inter-Asian Law” (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), “Food Safety and Technology Governance” (Routledge, 2022), “Artificial Intelligence and International Economic Law: Disruption, Regulation, and Reconfiguration” (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and “Governing Science and Technology under the International Economic Order: Regulatory Divergence and Convergence in the Age of Megaregionals” (Edward Elgar, 2018).