Research ExpertiseCivil Law: Kinds of Obligations、Civil Law: Property、Law of Consumer Protection、Civil Law :General Principles、Civil Law :GeneralPrinciples、Study on Law of Consumer Protection
DiplomasPh.D., University of Warwick, UK | LL.M., Law in Development, University of Warwick, UK | LL.M., National Taiwan University
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Research ExpertiseHsiao-Tan Wang's research covers the fields of anthropology of law, human rights and gender law. She has done various empirical researches on the legal courts and the dispute resolution in Taiwan, on national and international anti-human trafficking regulations, and on gender violence and human rights.
Job TitleProfessor of Law, Director of The Digital Economy and Competition Policy Research Institute (DECPRI)
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Research ExpertiseCompetition Law, Patents, Intelelctual Property, Internet Law, Regulated Industries.
Richard Li-dar Wang (王立達) is Professor of Law at National Chengchi University (NCCU). He is also a steering director and the academic convener of the Taiwan Competition Law Institute, and an affiliated faculty member of the Center for Intellectual Property Research, Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Prof. Wang's research primarily focuses on competition law and patent law. He is teaching and doing research on digital economy, internet law, intellectual property and regulated industries as well. He accomplished his S.J.D. degree from Indiana–Maurer at Bloomington in 2007, and also a graduate of Georgetown Law Center (LL.M. 2004).
Prof. Wang served as the Associate Dean for Executive Education and International Affairs at NCCU Law between the summer of 2017 and of 2019. During his tenure, the QS World University ranking of NCCU Law rose 100 places, three dual-degree agreements with U.S., U.K. and Australia law schools were concluded, and an English-taught program for undergraduate law students and a credit-bearing training program for corporate governance professionals were established. He co-organized a transnational summer program in 2019, featuring professors from law schools in the U.S., Germany and Japan, and also assisted the executive LLM program setting up an alumni and student union in 2018, which have been hosting a number of academic or sociable events each semester ever since.
Prof. Wang has published around fifty articles in English or Chinese, some of them published on top 20 technology law journals of the U.S., including Yale Journal of Law and Technology, University of Illinois Journal of Law, Technology & Policy, and Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal. Between 2021 and 2024, Prof. Wang served as the Editor-in-Chief of Chengchi Law Review, a widely recognized top law journal in Taiwan. In 2019 and 2024, he received NCCU Research Excellence Award for his insightful findings on competition law and its interaction with intellectual properties. He was appointed as Distinguished Professor of Law between 2021 and 2024. The Pacific Telecommunications Cncil coferred the Meheroo Jussawalla Research Award of Year 2025 to him and Prof. Yuntsai Chou for their co-authored paper concerning antrust crackdown on big techs.
Prof. Wang consistently delivers speeches before judges and attorneys, and provides expert opinions to courts, regulatory authorities, and private parties. He is a frequent presenter at various international conferences, including Intellectual Property Scholars Conference (IPSC), Asian IP Works-in-Progress Conference (IPScholars Asia) and ASCOLA conferences. Prior to academia, Prof. Wang worked for the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission. He investigated anticompetitive cases of the petroleum and pharmaceutical industries, and unfair business practices across numerous sectors. Later on, he became a consultant to the Vice Chairperson of the Commission, advising him on legal and policy matters.
