Donnie, Hao Dong is a Student Fellow at Berkman Center. His research interests cover copyright reform, law and social development in digital age, and rule of law in China.
Donnie is now a PhD Candidate in City University of Hong Kong supervised
by Professor Minkang GU. As a Visiting Fulbright Junior Scholar, he
plans to study China's new copyright reform for digital age during the
fellowship at Berkman Center.
Donnie defended his Master's dissertation on Internet Governance in
2003, then he joined Faculty of Law at Yunnan University located in his
hometown Kunming. As a "Western Light" Domestic Visiting Scholar
sponsored by Chinese Academy of Science, he visited China University of
Political Science and Law (CUPL) in 2004, and co-led a pioneer course of
Cyber Law for LLM students with Professor Chu ZHANG. Also under
Professor Zhangs supervision, he completed his first doctorate study on
the Public Domain in the Context of Chinese Copyright Law at CUPL.
Donnie published a few academic papers and co-authored some books in
Chinese. He began to publish in English after studying in Hong Kong
since 2006. His publications, short essays and nags can be accessed at
BLawgDog, a personal website just celebrated her 10th birthday:http://www.BLawgDog.com
He is a bad player of GO (Weichi).