Julien CHAISSE
Professor
City University of Hong Kong School of Law
Professional Appointments
Julien Chaisse is a professor at the City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) School of Law and a leading expert in international economic law, digital law, and dispute resolution. His research integrates legal scholarship with insights from economics, technology, and international relations. He serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of World Investment & Trade and the Asia Pacific Law Review and writes the Global Lawyer column for the Financial Times’ fDI Intelligence Magazine.
Research Areas
Dr. Chaisse is listed among Stanford University’s top 2% most highly cited scientists since 2023, and his work is frequently referenced by international tribunals and courts in the United States and Europe. Some recent publications include Law of the Digital Domain: Trademarks, Domain Names, and the AI Frontier (Intellectual Property Law Review, 2024), Power and Pitfalls of Digital FDI and Cross-Border Data Flows (World Trade Review, 2023), Digital Special Economic Zones (Edward Elgar, 2023), Toward a Big Bang for the Taxation of the Digitalized Economy (Virginia Tax Review, 2022), and Cybersecurity and the Protection of Digital Assets (Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law, 2019).
Dr. Chaisse has extensive experience in domain name dispute resolution, having adjudicated dozens of UDRP cases as both a single panelist and a panel member for gTLD and ccTLD disputes. He has also acted as counsel for claimants seeking to reinstate suspended domain names under various registrars’ Terms of Service Agreements (TOS) and has represented clients in ICANN arbitration related to the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA). In Hong Kong, he serves as Director of the Dot Trademark Policy Committee (DTPC) and co-founder of the Internet Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI). At the international level, he is a member of ICANN’s Working Group, which produced the Report of the Review of All Rights Protection Mechanisms in All gTLDs, and has contributed to policy discussions on data free flow. He was part of the WEF working group that produced Paths towards Free and Trusted Data Flows and Overcoming Barriers to Cross-Border Data Flows, which were acknowledged in the G7 Digital and Tech Ministers’ April 2023 Ministerial Declaration.
Other Information
His academic work has been recognized with several distinctions, including the CityU Outstanding Research Award (2023), the Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship (2022) from the Research Grants Council (RGC), the Smit-Lowenfeld Prize (2020) from the International Arbitration Club of New York, and the CUHK Vice-Chancellor’s Young Researcher Award (2018).
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