Ching-Yi Liu

Ching-Yi Liu
4F, 178 Tze-Chiang Road

Tanshui, Taipei 251

Taiwan

Tel: (O)886-3-426-9396; (H)886-2-2624-1331
Fax:(O)886-3-4226134; (H)886-2-2624-1330

EMAIL: tgcn143@attglobal.net; cy1117@ms17.hinet.net

Updated May 31, 2001

Education

J.S.D. The University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, U.S.A., March 1997
LL.M., The University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, U.S.A., June 1995
LL.M. Harvard Law School, Cambridge, U.S.A., June 1994
LL.M., summa cum laude, Graduate Institute of Law at National Taiwan University, June 1993
LL.B., summa cum laude, Law Department at National Taiwan University, June 1989

Experience

Member, At Large Study Committee (http://www.atlargestudy.org), Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers（ICANN，http://www.icann.org）, 2001
Member of Nominating Committee of Independent Review Panel, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, 2001-2003
Commissioner, Consumer Protection Commission, Taiwan, July 2000-June 2003
Supervisor, Taiwan Network Information Center, 1999-2002
Commissioner, Telecommunication Dispute Review and Resolution Commission at the Directive General of Telecommunication, Department of Telecommunication and Transportation, 2000-2001
Board Member, Technology Development Fund, GIO of Taiwan, 2001-2002
Member, Technology Advisory Committee for the President, 2000-

Honors and Awards

Legal Advisory Committee, the Advisory Group of Technology and Policy for the Vice President, Taiwan, 2000-
University Faculty Research Fellowships, National Science Council, Taiwan, 1998, 1999, 2000
Ph.D. Dissertation Fellowship, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (U.S.A), July 1996-June 1997
The Annual Best Books Award of 1993, China Times Newspapers Syndicate, 1994
Phi-Tao-Phi Honorable Membership, June 1993
Ranking as Top One in the National Examination for Abroad Study Scholarship, The Ministry of Education, November 1992 (A Full Scholarship for Three Years, July 1993-June 1996)
Passing the National Examination for Selecting Judges and Prosecutors, November 1990
Five Book Coupon Awards (Awarded to Students among the Top 5 % of the Class), 1985-1989
Editor-in-Chief of National Taiwan University Law Review, 1987-1988

Employment

Program Director, Technology Transfer Office, National Central University, 2000-

Section Leader, Section of Technology Law and Policy at Taiwan Economic Development Center, National Central University, 2000-

Assistant Professor of Law, Graduate Institute of Industrial Economics, National Central University, Taiwan, 1999-present

Courses: Law and Economics, Telecommunications Law and Policy (Seminar), Information Law, The Law of Cyberspace (Seminar), Technology Law and Policy, Administrative Law and Constitutional Law, The Elements of Law

Adjunct Assistant Professor, National Sun Yet Sen University, Koahsing, 2000-

Course: Information Ethics and Law (co-teaching)

Assistant Professor, Tamkang University, Taipei, 1997-present

Courses: The Law of Cyberspace (Seminar), Mass Communications Law, Comparative Telecommunications Law and Policy (Seminar), Information Law, Constitutional Law

Adjunct Assistant Professor, National Chung-Cheng University, Chia-Yi, August 1997-July 1998

Courses: Regulatory Issues for the Cyberspace Society (Seminar), Telecommunications Law and Policy (Seminar).

Works in Progress

Collective Actions and Internet Governance

A project monitoring, observing and analyzing the current transformation of Internet Governance, interactions among a variety of Internet organizations in the process, as well as the collective actions problems we face and how they could be resolved properly.

The Law of Cyberspace: The Technological Transformation of Law and Social Norms in the Virtual World and Its Implications for the Real World

A current book project exploring the law of cyberspace as a comparative law, analyzing how information technologies transform the roles of law and social norms in the virtual world, as well as identifying the significance of the regulation of cyberspace might present both to the cyberworld and the real world.

Content Regulation in the Cyber Age: The Globalization of Filtering Technologies and Its Future

An empirical study on how filtering technologies have been adopted in different sovereignties and an analysis on the problems it might present to the content regulation of cyberspace.

Electronic Commerce and Its Regulation

A current project exploring what issues the emerging electronic commerce might bring to us and what kind of regulation is the most optimal approach.

The Technological Transformation of Privacy

A project reviewing how information technology and biotechnology transform the ancient idea of privacy, its global implications and what kind of legal regulation and policy coordination make sense for different cultures.

A Reconsideration of Public Interest Regulation in the coming Digital TV Age

An American and European comparative law research reconsidering the role of traditional public interest regulation in the digital TV age and how a better future of communications policy for the digital economy could be achieved.

Business Model Patent in the Electronic Commerce Age

Research Project Funded by National Science Council

August 1999-July 2000

Antitrust Issues in U.S. v. s. Microsoft

Research Project Funded by National Science Council

August 1999-July 2000

Legal Issues in the Emerging Information Economy

Research Project Funded by National Science Council

August 1998-July 1999

Governance or Coordination?: A Legal and Policy Study on the International Trend of Reorganization for Internet Governance, DN Allocations and Related Issues

Research Project Funded by Computer Center at the Ministry of Education

December 1998-June 1999

Unfair Competition and Antitrust Enforcement for Electronic Commerce

Research Project Funded by Fair Trade Commission in Taiwan

September 1998-February 1999

The Use of Information Technology in Health Care Information Systems and Its Regulatory Issues

With Professor Da-Wei Wang, Research Fellow of the Institute of Information Science at Academia Sinica

Research Project Funded by National Health Agency in Taiwan

October 1998-December 1999

Proposed Commercial and Information Policies for Taipei Beyond 2000

With Professor Kenneth S. Lin, Economics Department at National Taiwan University

Research Project Funded by Taipei City Government

August 1998-July 1999

A Proposed Regulation for Digital Television

Research Project Funded by Information Agency of the Executive Yuan in Taiwan

January 1998-June 1998

Publications

Articles

Filtering, Blocking, and Content Regulation in the Cyber Age, Paper Accepted by National Taiwan University Law Journal, October 2000

Antitrust Regulation in High-tech Industries and Its Future, Paper Accepted by National Cheng-Chi University Law Review, November 2000

How Smart Is the IC Card ?: The Proposed Smart Card Plan, BOO Strategy, Electronic Commerce, and the Emerging Danger to Online Privacy in Asia

Paper Presented on INET’99 Conference Program Committee, Internet Society, to Appear in its 1999 Proceedings.

The Future of Antitrust in Information Industries: An Analysis of United States v. Microsoft, National Taiwan University Law Journal, July 1999

The Regulation of Cyberspace: A First Analysis, National Taiwan University Law Journal, December 1998

The Regulation of Pornography on the Internet, Taiwan Law Society Annual Journal, December, 1998

The Regulation of Cyberspace: Computer Technology, Law, and Self-Regulation on the Internet, JSD Dissertation, The University of Chicago Law School, March 1997

An Economic Analysis of Law on the Exclusive Franchising of Cable TV in Taiwan, LL.M. Thesis, National Taiwan University, June 1993

Freedom or Control?: The Content Regulation of Mass Media and Its Legal Implication in Taiwan (with professor Tzu-Yi Lin), in Demythologizing the Mass Media-What’s Our Future?, May 1993

The Administrative Procedure Act Draft and the Procedural Requirements of the Mass Media Laws in Taiwan (with professor Tzu-Yi Lin), in A Proposed Structure for the Administrative Procedure Act (Chief Justice Yuh-Shen Weng, ed.), 1992

Essays

A Critical Analysis on the National ID Card Project, Electronic Commerce, and the Role of Government in the Information Society, The Taiwan Law Review, December 1998

An Antitrust Law Analysis of the National ID Card Project, Taipei Bar Association Journal, December 1998

The Regulation of the Internet World: Its Past, Present and Future, The Taiwan Law Review, June 1998

The Regulation of Indecency Communications: Reno v. ACLU and the Future of Content Control in Cyberspace, The Taiwan Law Review, January 1998

Monitoring and Its Legal Implication in Cyberspace: Cookies, Push Technologies and the Technological Transformation of Privacy, Information Lawyer, October 1997, Science and Technology Law Center, Institute for Information Industry,

Sexual Orientation and the Constitution in the United States: Romer v. Evans, Gay Rights, and Equal Protection, The Taiwan Law Review, October 1997

Conferences and Workshops

Social Norms in Cyberspace, Law and Economics Conference at Academia Sinica, Taiwan, May 19-20, 2000

How Is the Technical Standard Set and What Is Wrong with the Architecture Created: A Critique of Wiretapping Regulation in Taiwan, Communications Research Center at National Cheng-Chi University, Taiwan, May 5-6, 2000

The Governance of Cyberspace: Some Thoughts on the Development of ICANN from 1998 to 1999, Information Technology and the Transformation of Society, Conference at Academia Sinica, Taiwan, December 20-21, 1999

Invited Panelist at the Second Annual Conference of Internet Law and Policy Forum, Consumer Protection in the Regulation of Cyberspace, Montreal, Canada, July 26-27, 1999

Speaker at the Online Plenary Conference for Domain Name and Trademark, Online Course of Intellectual Property in Cyberspace by Professor William Fisher, <http://eon.law.harvard.edu>, Berkman Center of Internet and Society, Harvard Law School, April 5-April 12, 1999

How Smart Is the IC Card ?: The Proposed Smart Card Plan, BOO Strategy, Electronic Commerce, and the Emerging Danger to Online Privacy in Asia

Paper Accepted by INET’99 Conference Program Committee, Internet Society, San Jose, U.S.A., June 22-25, 1999

A Comment on the World Intellectual Property Organization Domain Name Process, Intellectual Property Rights for Internet Industry Panel at the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies, March 5, 1999, Suntec City, Singapore

The ICANN, APNIC, APIA, APNG & APTLD Joint Conferences

February 28–March 6, 1999, Suntec City, Singapore

19th Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Working Group on Telecommunications

Legal Expert of Chinese Taipei Delegation

March 8–March 13, 1999, Miyazaki, Japan

Intellectual Property Protection and Online Privacy in the Cyber Age

Paper Presented at the 1999 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Conference, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, January 21, 1999

Competition Policy and Antitrust Law Annual Symposium, Fair Trade Commission, December 28–29, 1998

Paper:

Several Observations on Unfair Competition Issues in Electronic Commerce

The 50th Anniversary of Human Rights Declaration Symposium, December 12-13, 1998, Taiwan Law Society Annual Symposium, Taipei

Paper:

Homosexuality and the Constitution: Equal Protection, the Politics of Homophobia and Legal Strategies for Gay Rights

TANET’98 National Conference, November 9-11, 1998

Keynote Speech:

The Future of Content Regulation and Online Privacy

Higher Education Law for the 21th Century, October 31, 1998

Essay:

Some Fundamental Principles of Information Disclosure for Higher Education Institutes

Workshop on Privacy and the National IC Card, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, September 30, 1998

Comment: Why Is the National IC Card System a Bad Idea?

18th Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Working Group on Telecommunications

Legal Expert of Chinese Taipei Delegation

September 7–September 11, 1998, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Contracting in Electronic Commerce Workshop, June 6, 1998

Multimedia and Internet Industries Research Center at the Business School of National Taiwan University, Taipei

Comment: Contracting, Technological Protections, and the Future of E-Commerce

The Second International Harvard Conference on Internet and Society, May 26–May 29, 1998, Cambridge, U.S.A. Participant

Net ’98 Taiwan International Conference, March 26- March 30, 1998

National Information Infrastructure Group, Taipei

Paper I: Regulatory Models for Cyberspace, March 26

Paper II: Technological Innovation, Competition and Antitrust Law in the

Information Age, March 28

Workshop on Cable TV Law and Consumer Protection, February16, 1998

Consumer Protection Agency, Taipei

Panel Discussion

Panel on the White Paper of Telecommunications and Internet Policies of Taipei, Information Department of Taipei City Government, Taipei, January 19, 1998

Panel Discussion

Cable TV and Its Cut-of-Services Dilemma, January 15, 1998

Information Department of Taipei City Government, Taipei

Panel Discussion

Internet and Law Symposium, December 6-December 7, 1997

Taiwan Law Society Annual Symposium, Taipei

Paper:

Who Is Afraid of Cyberporn?: The Technological Transformation of Free Speech and Feminism

Information Technology and Society Symposium, December 6-December 7, 1997

The Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica

Paper:

Regulatory Crises of Taiwan’s Information Policy: What Went Wrong with Our Freedom of Speech and Information Privacy in Cyberspace

Public Services

Asia Pacific Top-Level Domain Forum liaison responsible of ICANN communications, 2000

Asia Pacific Top-Level Domain Forum liaison responsible of WIPO communications, 1999

Organizing Member of Net ’99 Taiwan International Conference, January 1999-April 1999

Board Member, Taiwan Law Society, January 1999-Present

Executive Committee Member, Taiwan Association of Human Rights, 2000-2002

Organizing Member of Net ’98 Taiwan International Conference, January 1998-March 1998

Deputy Secretary General, Taiwan Law Society, January 1998-December 1998

Founding Member, Taiwan Legal History Society, November 1997

Legal Aid Clinic Service at National Taiwan University, 1987-1992

References

Professor Lawrence L. Lessig, Stanford Law School, 2000-; Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor fpr Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, Harvard Law School, 19997-2000 (Dissertation Supervisor at The University of Chicago Law School, 1994-1997), Cambridge, U.S.A.

Professor William W. Fisher III, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, U.S.A.

Professor Kenneth Lin, Professor of Economics, Economics Department at National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Mr. Kuo-Wei Wu, APNIC Executive Commissioner; Senior VP, Yam Digital Technology; Deputy Director, National Center for High-Performance Computing, National Science Council, Taiwan, 1991-1999