Academic Staff
Haochen Sun 孫皓琛
Assistant Professor of Law
Deputy Director, Law and Technology Center
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Haochen is currently Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong and Deputy Director of the Law and Technology Center at HKU. He will teach at University of California Davis Law School as a Visiting Professor in the fall of 2012.
Haochen teaches and researches in the areas of intellectual property and property. His scholarship draws on social, cultural and political thought to explore the theoretical foundations of intellectual property and property law. His most recent research is concerned with intellectual property protection of luxury goods, the ideas of social responsibility and justice in intellectual property law, the reconceptualization of the nature of fair use in copyright law, a new social-political theory of the public trust doctrine, and Hegel's theory of property. During the past few years, Haochen also worked on theoretical and policy studies of various intellectual property issues, such as copyright protection and digital technology, the three-step test used in the international copyright treaties, and patent and public health.
Haochen has presented his papers at numerous conferences. His recent work on intellectual property has been selected for presentation at the Harvard-Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum (2011), the Plenary Session of the 11th Intellectual Property Scholars Conference (2011), the 4th Junior Scholars in Intellectual Property Workshop at Michigan State University College of Law (2011), the 3rd Global Forum on Intellectual Property (2011), and the 15th Fordham Intellectual Property Law and Policy Conference (2007). Moreover, Haochen has been invited to give workshops or guest talks at Cornell Law School, Duke Law School, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, UC Davis Law School, and University of North Carolina Law School.
Before joining University of Hong Kong, Haochen worked as a research fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property. He obtained an LL.B. from Zhejiang University, and an LL.M. degree from National University of Singapore and Harvard Law School, respectively. At each institution, he received a series of scholarships and grants. He is currently completing his SJD dissertation. The dissertation seeks to put forward a new ethical theory of copyright law.
Selected Publications
“Reimagining the Humanistic Spirit of Trademark Law,” 46 UC Davis Law Review (forthcoming 2013)
“Reconceptualizing the Idea of Responsibility in Copyright Law,” 4 Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law (forthcoming fall 2012)
“Can Louis Vuitton Dance with HiPhone? Rethinking the Idea of Social Justice in Intellectual Property Law,” 15 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Social Change 387 (2012)
“Fair Use as a Collective User Right,” 90 North Carolina Law Review 125 (2011)
“Toward a New Social-Political Theory of the Public Trust Doctrine,” 35 Vermont Law Review 563 (2011)
“Designing Journeys to the Social World: Hegel’s Theory of Property and His Noble Dreams Revisited,” 6 Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 33 (2010)
“Overcoming the Achilles Heel of Copyright Law,” 5 Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property 265 (2007)
“Reconstructing Reproduction Right Protection in China,” 53 Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA 223 (2006)
“Copyright Under Siege: An Inquiry into the Legitimacy of Copyright Protection in the Context of Global Digital Divide,” 35 International Review of Industrial Property and Copyright Law 192 (2005)
“The Road to Doha and Beyond: Some Reflections on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health,” 15 European Journal of International Law 123 (2004)
