Faculty & Scholarship

Ilhyung Lee     이일형

• International commercial arbitration
• Culture and dispute resolution
• Culture and law
• Comparative equal protection
• Law and society in Korea
• Intellectual property

Professor Ilhyung Lee’s research and teaching interests are related closely to the international and comparative setting. His scholarship addresses: the arbitration method and arbitrator ethics in international dispute resolution; comparative approaches to individual rights; the intersection of law, society, and culture in Korea; and the impact of culture on the dispute resolution process. Professor Lee’s related courses include Comparative Constitutional Law, Cross-cultural Dispute Resolution, and International Commercial Arbitration. He also writes and teaches in intellectual property law (Trademarks and Copyright).

Professor Lee has taught at Waseda University Faculty of Law, in Tokyo, Japan as a Fulbright Scholar, and also at the Tokyo University of Science, Master of Intellectual Property Program. He teaches the cross-cultural dispute resolution subject as adjunct faculty at Pepperdine University School of Law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, and Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution.

A Senior Fellow at the Law School’s Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution, Professor Lee is included in the roster of neutrals for the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, the University of Missouri Campus Mediation Service, and the World Intellectual Property Organization, among others. He is also a member of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, the London Court of International Arbitration, the United States Council for International Business, and the National Sports Law Institute.

Professor Lee’s private practice experience includes positions at Cravath, Swaine & Moore (New York) and Kim & Chang (Seoul, Korea). Previously, he was law clerk to the Honorable Joseph F. Weis, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. As a law student, he was an articles editor on the law review, and graduated with Order of the Coif honors.

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