Bor-shan Lin is a lecturer of law in the Department of Law at Chinese Culture University (CCU), Taipei, Taiwan, where he teaches Civil Law: General Provisions, Property, Civil Law: Kinds of Obligations, and Copyright Law. He was also an adjunct professor of law in Shih Hsin University, teaching Anglo-American law of Contracts from 1997 to 2001. In 2004, he served as visiting lecturer for semester at sea law program to teach “Comparative Law on PRC” and “Law and Society in Taiwan”.

His recent publications include: A study on Market Approach in Fair Use: Market Substitution and Market Failure, Hwa Kang Journal of Social Science, pp. 87-130 (2000); Application of the First Sale Doctrine on Internet Transmission, Hwa Kang Law Review, pp.59-91 (1997); A Study on the Rules of Applicable Law in International Copyright Litigation, Intellect Property Office, Taiwan (2003); Comparative study on Domestic and International Tobacco Litigations, Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taiwan (2004); and A study on “product placement” of tobacco information and anti-tobacco information, Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taiwan (2005).

Prior to entering full-time faculty, he had worked for Chinese Culture University first as a director of extracurricular activities and then as a director of student affairs and academic affairs respectively in evening division. He has served as a trustee in Hwa-kang Legal Education Foundation for 12 years and was awarded 2003 Outstanding Tutor of the Year in CCU. In 1981, he received his LL.B. degree and in 1983, the M.A. degree, both from the Chinese Culture University, and during which awarded with the Hwa-kang Outstanding Student of the Year in 1982. In 1997, he received the LL.M. degree from the University of Pittsburgh through a scholarship granted by Taiwan’s Ministry of Education. He is now a Ph.D. Candidate in Law at Renmin University of China, Beijing, with a scholarship from China’s Ministry of Education. The subject of his ongoing doctoral dissertation is A Study on Dichotomy of Expression and Idea of Copyrighted Work.