Profile
Tsung-Ling Lee, an Associate Professor of Law at Taipei Medical University, is an interdisciplinary researcher and legal scholar who focuses on new ways of thinking about international lawmaking in the context of global health. With expertise in global health law, Tsung-Ling's research lies at the intersection of public international law, global health, and governance of emerging technologies. She is interested in how legal and health norms are generated at the global level and takes a sociological approach to international law to understand how, why, and when international cooperation and coordination occurs.
Tsung-Ling recieved a Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) in international law and global governance on non-communicable diseases from Georgetown University Law Center, studied with Professor Lawrence Gostin. Her dissertation chapter on nudge won an Award on Legal Studies from the Society for Risk Analysis. She also holds a Master of Laws from Georgetown University and a Master of Laws from the National Taiwan University, and a Bachelor of Medical Science from the University of Sydney. She has been admitted to practice as an Attorney of Law in New York State (USA).
Areas of Expertise
International Law
Global Health Law
Global Health Governance
Health Law and Ethics
Law and Technology
Selected Publications
I. Articles
*Tsung-Ling Lee, Informal Rulemaking at the World Health Organization: Technocratic, Iterative, and Poliitical Constraints, International Organizations Law Review, (forthcoming, 2025)
Tsung-Ling Lee,, Pandemic Accord, Digital Health Literacy, and Human Rights in the Era of Infodemic, 18 Asian Journal of WTO and International Health Law and Policy, 397-422 (2023).
*Tsung-Ling Lee, Realising the Right to Participate in Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response and Beyond, BMJ Global Health 8(1):e011689 (2023).
Tsung-Ling Lee, Taiwan and the 2005 IHR: Covid-19 and the Evolving Landscape of Global Health, 40 Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs, 213-224 (2023).
*Tsung-Ling Lee, The Rise of Technocracy and the Covid-19 pandemic in Taiwan: Courts, Human Rights and the Protection of the Vulnerable Populations, 22(6) German Law Journal, 1115-1132 (2021).
Tsung-Ling Lee, Covid-19 Vaccination Certificates and their Geopolitical Discontents, 2(2) European Journal of Risk Regulation, 321-331 (2021).
Tsung-Ling Lee, The 2005 International Health Regulations: Taiwan, Compliance and the Exclusion Paradox, 16(1) Asian Journal of WTO and International Health Law and Policy, 1-24 (2021).
*Tsung-Ling Lee, Legal Preparedness as Part of COVID-19 Response: the First 100 Days in Taiwan, BMJ Global Health 5:e002608 (2020).
Tsung-Ling Lee, Global Health in a Turbulent Time: A Commentary, 15(1) Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy, 27-60 (2020).
Tsung-Ling Lee, Two Minutes to Midnight – What International Law can do about Genome Editing, 14(1) Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy, 227-265 (2019).
Tsung-Ling Lee, Making International Health Regulations Work: Lessons from the 2014 Ebola Outbreak, 49 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 931-981 (2016).
Tsung-Ling Lee, Sawai T., Global governance of human brain organoid research and applications: A role for the World Health Organization?, 2(11) Molecular Psychology: Brain, Behavior, and Society (2023).
Masanori Kataoka, Tsung-Ling Lee, Tsutomu Sawai, The Legal Personhood of Human Brain Organoids, 10(1)Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 1-13 (2023).
Lal, A., Abdalla, S.M., Chattu, V.K., Erondu, N.A., Lee, T.-L., Singh, S., Abou-Taleb, H., Vega Morales, J., Phelan, A., Pandemic preparedness and response: exploring the role of universal health coverage within the global health security architecture, 10 The Lancet Global Health, e1675–e1683 (2022).
Sawai, T., Hayashi, Y., Niikawa, T., Shepherd, J., Thomas, E., Lee, T.-L., Erler, A., Watanabe, M., Sakaguchi, H., Mapping the Ethical Issues of Brain Organoid Research and Application, 13 AJOB Neuroscience, 81–94 (2022).
Tsung-Ling Lee & Tamra Lysaght, Wendy Lipworth, Ian Kerridge, Tsung-Ling Lee & Tamra Lysaght, Conditional Approvals for Autologous Stem Cells: Conflicting Norms, Social Inequalities and Institutional Legitimacy, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 59-75 (2018).
Tsung-Ling Lee, Tamra Lysaght, Tereza Hendl, Megan Munsie, Cameron Stewart, Regulating the Stem Cell Industry: Needs and Responsibilities, 95(9) Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 10.2471/blt.16.189977 (IF: 5.302) (2017).
Tsung-Ling Lee & Tamra Lysaght, Adaptive Pathways Regulations for Stem Cells: Accelerating Access to Medicine or Deregulating Access to Markets, 14 Scripted 81 (2017).
Tsung-Ling Lee, Jing-Wun Huang, The right to health during the Pandemic, the case of Taiwan, 27(2) The Journal of Science and Health Law, 47-77 (2022).
Markus Labude, Tsung-Ling Lee, Competencies of Member States Concerned and of Ethics Committees to assess trial applications under the new EU Clinical Trials Regulation, European Journal of Risk Regulation, 178-185 (2017).
Tamra Lysaght, Tsung-Ling Lee, Sangeetha Watson, Zohar Lederman, Michele Bailey, Paul Anantharajah Tambyah, Zika in Singapore: Insights from One Health and Social Medicine, 57(10) Singapore Medical Journal, 528–529 (2016).
Tsung-Ling Lee, Book Review (Reviewing Bernard Harcourt, Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age, (2015)), 7(2) European Journal of Risk Regulation, 463-465 (2016)
Tsung-Ling Lee, Dissecting Non-Communicable Diseases Policies: Why International Human Rights Are Relevant in the Current Regulatory State, 106 American Society of International Law Proceedings, 260-261 (2012).
II. Book Chapter
Calvin Wai-Loon Ho & Tsung-Ling Lee, Global Governance of Anti-microbial resistance: A Legal and Regulatory Toolkit, Ethics and Antimicrobial Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health, Editors: Euzebiusz Jamrozik and Michael Selgelid, CH. 25, 401-419 (2020).
III. Invited Lectures (selected)
Emerging Technologies, Social Changes, and Legal Innovation, Asian Law Schools Association, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University School of Law, December 2-3, 2023.
Conference: The New Generation of Economic Agreements, 8th Asian International Economic Law Network (AIELN), the Asian Center for WTO & International Health Law and Policy (ACWH) of National Taiwan University (NTU) College of Law and the Asian International Economic Law Network (AIELN) – the Asian Branch of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL), College of Law, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, December 4, 2023.
Governing Genome Editing: Technocracy and the Public, Hiroshima University, November 7, 2023
Digital Health and (In)justice: Power and Health Inequalities, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, October 26, 2023.
The 26th Annual Meeting of the Korean Society for Brain and Neural Sciences, Bexco, Busan, South Korea, September 6-8, 2023.
Legal issues pertaining to human brain organoid research, Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues of Human Brain Organoid Research and Application, Inamori Hall, Kyoto University, December 2, 2022.
IV. Reports, blogs and others
- Signatory, The Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies, University of Groningen Faculty of Law Research Paper No.14/2023, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4454622, May 21, 2023.
- Visibly Invisible: Taiwan and Global Health, Think Global Health, August 22, 2022.
- Moving Beyond a State-Centric Pandemic Preparedness Paradigm: A Call for Action, Alicia Ely Yamin, Joelle Grogan and Pedro Villarreal (eds.), International Pandemic Lawmaking: Conceptual and Practical Issues Report (Petrie-Flom Center and Max Planck Institute, November 2021), available at https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/resources/article/international- pandemic-lawmaking
- Submission to the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, Paper submitted to the World Health Organization's Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, 2021.
- Fighting the Pandemic Taiwan’s Way, With Digital Innovation, ISPI, 19 April 2021.
- When Technocracy Replaces Democracy, Policy Forum, 9 August, 2021.
- Moving Beyond a State-Centric Pandemic Preparedness Paradigm: A Call for Action, Bill of Health, 27 September 2021.
- Burci, Gian Luca, Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko, Gross, Aeyal, Lee, Tsung-Ling; Grogan, Joelle: Webinar: Beyond the State – Global Health Governance, VerfBlog, September 22, 2021 https://verfassungsblog.de/webinar-beyond-the-state-global-health-governance/
Research Gate
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tsung-Ling-Lee
Global Health Law Consortium
https://globalhealthlawconsortium.org/members/
