Director of the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution

School of Law

Edward W. Hinton Professor of Law

About Ilhyung Lee

Professor Ilhyung Lee’s research interests relate to the meaning and impact of culture on the dispute resolution process, law and society in East Asia, Asian American jurisprudence, and the laws of sport. He teaches Cross-cultural Dispute Resolution, International Commercial Arbitration, Comparative Constitutional Law, Public International Law, Sports Law, and Trademarks. Professor Lee was a Fulbright Scholar at Waseda University Faculty of Law, in Tokyo, Japan.

In 2019, Professor Lee became the fifth Director of the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution. He is included in the roster of neutrals for the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Mediators List), USA Track & Field, the University of Missouri Campus Mediation Service, and the World Intellectual Property Organization.

Before joining legal academia, Professor Lee was in private practice at Cravath, Swaine & Moore (New York) and Kim & Chang (Seoul, Korea). Previously, he was a 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.

Educational Background

BA, University of Maryland
MA, Washington College
JD, Boston College Law School