Dorothy Li received her Law degree from National Taiwan University School of Law, and earned her MALS and MBA from Dominican University Prior to her current position as Associate Dean for Library and Information Services and Associate Professor of Law emerita, The John Marshall Law School and Chicago Bar Association Joint Library, she held many positions in the field of library science, including Cataloger at the Chicago Public Library, Base Librarian for the U.S. 13th Air Force in Taipei, Reference Librarian, and Director of Technical Services at Oak Park Public Library, and Associate Librarian of Brooklyn Law School.
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She taught at National Taiwan University, Soochow University, Triton College, and has given numerous invited lectures at the Suzhou University, Zhejiang University, and Jiangxi Medical College Library in the People's Republic of China.?
Prof. Li was instrumental in establishing the co-operative program between The John Marshall Law School and the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China in 1993. Since then, each year the school sends faculty to teach at the State Intellectual Property Training Center. Judges, attorneys and SIPO staff members who completed the classes at the Training Center go to John Marshall to further their study for the LL.M degree.? In 1996, Prof. Li served as Secretary-General for the International Intellectual Property Protection Conference in Hangzhou, China. In 1999 she was appointed by Mayor Daley of Chicago as a member of the China Committee of the Chicago Sister Cities International Program. In June 2000, she coordinated a Rule of Law Project under a grant from the United States State Department and sponsored by the Chicago Sister Cities International Program.? Professors from the Law School went to China and lectured on topics such as legal ethics, enforcement of foreign judgment, and administrative law in Shanghai and Shenyang.? In September 2000, attorneys and Bureau of Justice officers from Shanghai and Shenyang visited Chicago to exchange views with American judges, attorneys and law professors by attending lectures, and visiting courts and law firms.?? In April, 2001 she was a member of the John Marshall Delegation invited to attend International IT and IP Conference held in Seoul, Korea, and she presented a paper: Knowledge Management in 21st Century. To recognize her contribution in promoting the globalization of legal education, the Alumni Association of the John Marshall Law School honored her with a Distinguished Service Award in May 2002.
Since 2006 Prof. Li has retired from her Library Position but she is committed with passion to promoting Sino-American relations. Since 2004, Prof. Li initiated the work-study program for American law students working in Chinese law firms during the summer. In March 2007 with the support of the State Intellectual Property Office, the China University of Politic and Law and the Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, Prof. Li organized a US Federal Judicial Delegation visited Beijing and Shanghai.
Prof. Li is past-President of the Midwest Chapter of the Chinese American Librarians Association, elected member of the Board of Directors of the Chinese American Professors Association, and past-President of the Asian-American law Librarian Caucus of the American Association of Law Libraries. She is a recipient of the 1984 ABA Law Day USA Public First Award; the 1995 Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award, Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and the Agnes and Harvey T. Reid Award for Outstanding Contribution to Law Librarianship, 1994-95 from the Chicago Association of Law Librarians
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