Prof. Taorui Guan 關韜睿教授

Prof. Taorui Guan 關韜睿教授

Assistant Professor

Biography

Dr. Taorui (Terry) Guan is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong. He is also the Deputy Convener for the Law Group at the HKU Research Institute for Civil Low Altitude Aviation. His research focuses on the commercialization of technology, intellectual property, comparative innovation systems, and the governance of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, robotics, and drones. He is also engaged in legal research related to the low-altitude economy. Dr. Guan publishes his work in both Chinese and English. From 2019 to 2020, he was a Thomas Edison Innovation Law and Policy Fellow at the Center for Intellectual Property & Innovation Policy at George Mason University. In 2021, he was awarded the John M. Olin Prize in Law and Economics. In 2025, he received a research grant from the University Grants Committee for a project on data-driven patent systems.

In the classroom, Dr. Guan teaches intellectual property and information technology, copyright law, trademark law, and Chinese intellectual property law. He also teaches advanced courses and executive training programs on the management and commercialization strategies of intellectual property. Additionally, Dr. Guan serves as a tutor in a course introducing Chinese law and has been invited by the Hong Kong Education Bureau to deliver public lectures in Cantonese on intellectual property to primary and secondary school teachers in Hong Kong. He also teaches in the WIPO Summer School on corporate intellectual property strategy.

Dr. Guan holds an S.J.D. and an LL.M. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he received the LL.M. International Scholarship and the China Government Scholarship. He also earned an MPhil in Intellectual Property Law from Renmin University of China, where he was named a Distinguished Graduate and awarded a National Scholarship for Graduate Students. His initial degrees, a B.A. in Business English and an LL.B., were obtained from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, where he received the National Scholarship for Undergraduate Students and the First Class Scholarship for two consecutive years.

Dr. Guan currently serves as Deputy Director of the Law and Technology Centre and Deputy Director of the LLM Programme in Technology and Intellectual Property Law. He is also an Associate Editor of the Hong Kong Law Journal.

Dr. Guan is admitted to the New York State Bar and has passed the Chinese National Judicial Examination. His professional affiliations include membership in the Chinese Law Society.