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Nari Lee

PhD

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7747-3653

  • P.O. Box 479

    00101 Helsinki

    Finland

2000 …2027

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Curriculum

Nari Lee is the professor intellectual property at Hanken School of Economics and the deputy director of the IPR University center. She has joined Hanken faculty in 2012. She has studied law at Ewha Womans University in Korea and at Kyushu University, Japan (LL.M), and holds a Ph.D from University of Eastern Finland and Doctor of Laws (LL.D) degree from Kyushu University, Japan. Since 1996, she has researched and taught in the area of intellectual property and international trade law in universities in Europe, Asia and USA. Her research experience includes, a visiting associate professor at Hokkaido University (2007-2011), a senior research fellow (2009-2010) and affiliated research fellow (2011-2012) Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition in Munich, Germany, Research Visitor at University of Cambridge (2016, 2019), Senior Global Hauser Fellow at New York University (NYU) Law School (2017), a Designated Professor, at the Center for Asian Legal Exchange at Nagoya University, Japan (2019). In 2025 Spring, she has been a visiting faculty at Waseda University's Research Center for the Legal System of Intellectual Property (RCLIP), Tokyo, Japan.

Research areas

  • Personalized medicine, Pharmaceutical Innovation and IP law 
  • Fairness, Morality and Intellectual Property
  • Open and Alternative Innovation Regimes and Intellectual Property 
  • Disruptive Innovations (e.g. 3DP, AIs, Biogenetic technology) and intellectual property law and policy 
  • Trade Secret Protection and IP law 
  • EU Data Regulations 

Education information

Doctor of Laws, Kyushu University, Japan, 2002

Additional Education Information

Doctor of Philosophy, (Ph.D.) University of Eastern Finland. 2010

External positions

Visiting Faculty / Research Fellow, Waseda University

02.04.2025 → 19.06.2025

Research Visitor, University of Cambridge

05.03.2019 → 05.09.2019

Designated Professor, Nagoya University

01.01.2019 → 31.03.2019

Senior Global Research Fellow, New York University

01.01.2017 → 31.05.2017

Research Visitor , University of Cambridge

01.07.2016 → 30.09.2016

Keywords

  • 513 Law
  • Intellectual Property Law
  • patent law
  • law and policy
  • theory of intellectual property
  • open innovation
  • international trade law

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  • FAirness, Morality and Equality in international and European Intellectual Property Law (FAME-IP)

    Lee, N. (Project participant), Jongsma, D. (Project participant), Bruun, N. (Project participant), Cadillo Chandler, D. (Project participant), Antikainen, M. (Project participant), Kallio, S. (Project participant), Kur, A. (Project participant), Sandeen, S. (Project participant), Simon, D. (Project participant) & Calboli, I. (Project participant)

    Academy of Finland

    01.07.2018 → 31.12.2022

    Project: Externally funded project

  • EU-CN Comparative study on protection of trade secrets

    Lee, N. (Project participant), Cadillo Chandler, D. (Project participant), Jongsma, D. (Project participant), Bruun, N. (Project participant), Kur, A. (Project participant), Wushuang, H. (Working partner) & Follador, D. (Project coordinator)

    DG Trade

    01.11.2016 → 31.07.2017

    Project: Externally funded project

  • Additive Manufacturing and Innovation: Technical, Economic, Legal, and Policy Related Aspects of Rising Technologies (AdManI)

    Ballardini, R. (Project manager, academic), Lee, N. (Project participant), Norrgård, M. (Project manager, academic), Salmi, M. (Project participant), Partanen, J. (Project manager, academic), Wechsler, A. (Working partner), Minssen, T. (Working partner), Mendis, D. (Working partner), Antikainen, M. (Project participant), Tuomi, J. (Project participant), He, K. (Project participant), Cadillo Chandler, D. (Project participant) & Jongsma, D. (Project participant)

    01.01.2015 → 01.01.2017

    Project: Externally funded project

  • Legal Transplant for Innovation and Creativity: A Sino-Finnish Comparative Study on the Governance of Intellectual Property Rights (TranSIP)

    Lee, N. (Project manager, academic), Bruun, N. (Project participant), Li, M. (Project participant), Norrgård, M. (Project participant), Li, Y. (Project participant), Cadillo Chandler, D. (Project participant), Ballardini, R. (Project participant), He, K. (Project participant), Larson, K. L. (Project participant), Antikainen, M. (Project participant), Jongsma, D. (Project participant), Liguo, Z. (Project participant), Zhao, Y. (Project participant), Tammenlehto, L. (Project participant), Wechsler, A. (Project participant) & Liu, B. (Project participant)

    Academy of Finland

    01.01.2013 → 31.12.2015

    Project: Externally funded project

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  • The Inner and Outer Limits of Patent Protection (PatLim)

    Norrgård, M. (Project manager, academic), Ballardini, R. (Project participant), Lee, N. (Project participant), Pitkänen, O. (Working partner), Virtanen, P. (Project participant), Bruun, N. (Working partner), Ohly, A. (Working partner), Schovsbo, J. (Working partner), Larson, K. L. (Project participant) & Lönnqvist, P. (Project participant)

    01.09.2011 → 31.10.2016

    Project: Externally funded project

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