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Cheng-chi “Kirin” Chang (張正麒) is a Research Fellow at the U.S.-Asia Law Institute of NYU School of Law. He is also an Affiliate Research Fellow of the AI and the Future of Work Program at Emory University School of Law, where he previously served as Associate Director & Academic Fellow. His research asks how the law should govern new technologies, and how those technologies are reshaping legal practice. He works across AI, privacy, intellectual property, and international and comparative law, writing to help lawyers and technologists understand each other. His scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming, in print and online, in journals such as the Stanford Law Review, the New York University Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, the Minnesota Law Review, the University of Illinois Law Review, the Wisconsin Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, the Georgetown Journal of International Law, and the UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, among others.

Alongside his scholarship, Chang builds free, open-source legal technology, including cite.review, a citation verifier that catches AI-hallucinated authorities, and the LawReview.Tools suite for Bluebook citation workflows. He previously worked in legal and compliance roles at multinational companies such as Volkswagen Group, Nestlé, Merck Sharp & Dohme, and Boehringer Ingelheim, and served as a Law Research Associate at Tsinghua University’s Institute for Studies on AI & Law in Beijing. He received his J.D. from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he attended on a full scholarship and was Senior Articles Editor of the Journal of Technology Law and Policy, and holds an LL.B., magna cum laude, from National Chung Hsing University School of Law in Taiwan. He is admitted to the New York and Texas Bars. A native Mandarin speaker fluent in English and Hokkien, Chang enjoys playing badminton in his free time.