M. Bob Kao

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M. Bob Kao

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♦ Education
PhD Candidate, Queen Mary University of London, Centre for Commercial Law Studies
LLM, University College London, Faculty of Laws
JD, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
MA in Psychology Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA

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♦ Experience

.RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Associate, York Law School, UK, September 2019 – June 2020 Robotics Regulation and Liability
Research Assistant, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Spring/Summer 2007 Domestic Violence Law in California

.HONORS & AWARDS
Kyushu University Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Algorithms Conference Young Scholar Prize, 2019
Association Internationale de Droit des Assurances (AIDA) Europe Student Prize, 2016
Runner-Up, Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, 2012
Los Angeles Neighborhood Housing Services It Takes Teamwork Award, 2010
Sandy Cohen Fellowship, 2007
Jurisprudence Award, Race & American Law, 2006
National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Law Foundation Scholarship, 2006


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♦ Other Experience
 M. Bob Kao, ‘The Struggle for Marriage Equality and the Need to Focus on Transgender Rights in Taiwan’ (2020) Cardozo International Comparative, Policy & Ethics Law Review.
M. Bob Kao, ‘AI and Product Liability’ in Philip L. Frana and Michael Klein (eds), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence: The Past, Present, and Future of AI (ABC-CLIO forthcoming 2020).
M. Bob Kao, ‘Assessing Maritime Piracy in American Law: A Century-old Punishment for an Evolving Crime’ (2019) 34 International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 755. Refereed (SSCI)
M. Bob Kao, ‘Regulating the Cybersecurity of Insurance Companies in the United States’ (2019) 21 Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law 11.
M. Bob Kao, ‘Against a Uniform Definition of Maritime Piracy’ (2016) 3 Maritime Safety and Security Law Journal 1. Refereed
M. Bob Kao, ‘Implementing a Concurrent Evidence Expert Witness System in Taiwan’s Medical Malpractice Litigation’ (Dec 2015) 22 Journal of Law and Medicine (Taiwan) 21.
M. Bob Kao, ‘Re-energising Taiwan’s LGBT Rights Movement: The Impact of Obergefell v Hodges’ (2015) 1 Journal of the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies.
Judge Chen-Chou Hsu & M. Bob Kao, ‘Taiwan’s Experience Implementing the ICCPR’ (2015) 23(1) California International Law Journal 39.
M. Bob Kao, ‘Book Review on Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in The Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change’ (2014)15 Human Rights Review 507.