Faculty and Administration Profiles

Y.S. Lee

About

Yong-Shik Lee is a lawyer, economist, and international relations scholar with internationally recognized authority in law and development and international trade law. He is currently Director and Professorial Fellow of the Law and Development Institute. He has also taught and conducted academic research at prominent universities throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia for twenty years. He is licensed to practice law in multiple jurisdictions, including the United States (California and North Carolina) and the United Kingdom.

Lee has published over one hundred academic articles, books, chapters, and shorter notes with leading publishers in North America, Europe, and Asia, in the areas of international economic law, law and development, development/institutional economics, comparative law, and international commercial arbitration. He has developed the “General Theory of Law and Development” and the “New General Theory of Development Economics,” which examines the causal mechanisms by which law impacts development and analyzes the constituent elements of economic development, respectively. He is currently an associate editor of the Journal of World Trade and the founding editor-in-chief of the Law and Development Review.

Lee participated in a number of bilateral and multilateral negotiations on international trade and investment at international forums such as the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law. He has appeared before WTO dispute settlement panels and the WTO Appellate Body as a government counsel, and advised national governments, international law firms, and consulting companies on international trade and development projects and major international commercial arbitration cases. He has frequently spoken on issues of international economic law, law and development, and the WTO through over seventy speech engagements at prominent forums such as Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and the World Bank.

Degrees

PhD, MA, BA, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, Cambridge, U.K.
BA, Economics, University of California at Berkeley

Courses Taught

Principles of International Economic Law