Jonathan Kang
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Professor Kang's teaching and research interests are in the areas of contract law and theory, international business transactions, Korean law, comparative law, and moral and legal philosophy. His scholarship seeks to explore the normative underpinnings of contractual obligations and the theoretical justifications for the regulation of contractual relationships in concrete private and/or public contexts, using insights drawn from philosophy and comparative jurisprudence.
Prior to joining the UW School of Law, Professor Kang was a visiting assistant professor at Fordham University School of Law, where he taught contracts, contract theory, and commercial transactions. Before entering academia, he worked at the law firms of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and Latham & Watkins in New York, and at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in Boston. While in private practice, Professor Kang's work centered on commercial litigation and international arbitration matters.
Professor Kang was born in Seoul, Korea, and grew up in Singapore. Professor Kang attended Oxford University, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Jesus College and obtained his degree with First Class Honors. A fluent speaker of Korean and a proficient speaker of Mandarin Chinese, Professor Kang is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was Developments Chair of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, he clerked for Judge Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
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Jonathan Kang Assistant Professor of Law at University of Washington.
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Curtis Milhaupt
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Professor Milhaupt's research interests include comparative corporate governance; the legal systems of East Asia (particularly Japan); law and economics; law and economic development.
He has published widely in the fields of comparative corporate governance and Japanese law, as well as aspects of the Chinese and Korean legal systems. In addition to numerous academic articles, he is the co-author or editor of seven books, including most recently, U.S. Corporate Law (Yuhikaku, 2009, in Japanese); Law and Capitalism: What Corporate Crises Reveal about Legal Systems and Economic Growth Around the World (University of Chicago Press, 2008); and Transforming Corporate Governance in East Asia (Routledge, 2008). His research is frequently profiled in The Economist and The Financial Times, and has been widely translated.
Professor Milhaupt lectures and teaches frequently throughout the world. He was named Teacher of the Year for 2010 at the Duisenberg School of Finance, University of Amsterdam. He was also appointed by the European Commission as the Erasmus Mundus Fellow in Law and Economics at the University of Bologna (June 2008). He served as the Paul Hastings Visiting Professor in Corporate and Financial Law at Hong Kong University (May 2007) and Visiting Professor of Law at Tsinghua University in Beijing (Fall 2006). At Columbia Law School, he was appointed the 2008 Albert E. Cinelli Enterprise Professor of Law in recognition of his innovative teaching in the field of business law. Professor Milhaupt received his B.A. from Notre Dame in 1984 and his J.D. in 1989 from Columbia Law School, where he was an editor of the Columbia Law Review. He joined the Columbia Law School faculty in 1999 after private law practice in New York and Tokyo, as well as five years on the Law School faculty at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Curtis Milhaupt
Parker Professor of Comparative Corporate Law, Columbia Law School
Fuyo Professor of Japanese Law, Director of the Center for Japanese Legal Studies, Vice Dean.
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Thomas Lee
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Professor Thomas Hyukjin Lee was graduated from college summa cum laude and law school at Harvard, where he is also a Ph.D. candidate in international relations and holds an A.M. in Regional Studies--East Asia. From 1991 to 1995, he was a U.S. naval signals-intelligence officer serving ashore in Korea and Japan and afloat in the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean theaters of operation. While at law school, Lee was Articles Chair of the Harvard Law Review and recipient of the Laylin Prize in international law.
After law school, he clerked for Chief Judge Michael Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and for Associate Justice David H. Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court before coming to Fordham where he has taught civil procedure, constitutional law, federal courts, international commercial arbitration, international law and international relations theory, the laws of war, and telecommunications law.
From 2005 to 2006, he was a visiting professor at Columbia Law School, where he taught civil procedure, federal courts, and a seminar on the U.S. Supreme Court. He has also taught U.S. constitutional law in the Netherlands at the University of Leiden. Professor Lee has published articles and essays on constitutional law, federal courts, and the laws of war in Columbia Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Law and Contemporary Problems, and Northwestern University Law Review. He is currently working on a book entitled "The International Laws of War and the American Civil War."
Professor Lee is Founder and Director of the Fordham-SKKU Summer Institute of International Law and also the Director of International Studies at Fordham Law School. He is a member of the bars of Massachusetts, New York, and the U.S. Supreme Court, and licensed to practice before the U.S. Courts of Appeal of the First, Second, and D.C. Circuits. He frequently consults on international arbitration, telecommunications, federal jurisdictional, foreign relations, and constitutional law matters.
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Thomas Lee Institute Director, Professor of Law and Director of International Studies at Fordham Law School.
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Leighanne Yuh
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Leighanne Yuh received her Ph.D. from the University of California in Los Angeles after completing her dissertation titled, "Education and the Struggle for Power in Korea, 1876-1910." Before moving to New York, she spent two years in Seoul, Korea (the second year on a Fulbright scholarship) conducting dissertation research and taking classes on Korean intellectual history. While in Korea, she taught at Korea University as well as at private academies and participated in panel discussions related to Korean history and diplomatic policy.
During her first four years at UCLA, Dr. Yuh was not only a teaching assistant for Korean history and language courses, but she spearheaded the Korean programs at Los Angeles City College and the Korean Cultural Center. Apart from her specialization on Korea, Dr. Yuh took and passed a Ph.D. qualifying exam in Chinese history and majored in Japanese history as an undergraduate.
Dr. Yuh received a B.A. in Japanese History and Economics from Wellesley College, an M.A. from Columbia University in Korean History, and received her Ph.D. in 2008 from UCLA (East Asian Studies, concentration Korean history).
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Leighanne Yuh Executive Director, B.A. Wellesley, A.M. Columbia, Ph.D. in Korean History at UCLA
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