CONTRIBUTOR:

Seok-Woo Lee

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor

DEPARTMENT:

International Law

INSTITUTION:

INHA University Law School

BIOGRAPHY:

Seokwoo Lee is Professor of International Law, Inha University Law School, Korea (2003-present). He was Chairman of the Foundation for the Development of International Law in Asia (DILA) (2012-2017). He is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy (APJOLP) and Asian Yearbook of International Law (Asian YBIL), the Executive Editor of The Korean Journal of International and Comparative Law (KJICL), the Co-Series Editor of the book series entitled Maritime Cooperation in East Asia, and the Associate Editor of Brill Research Perspectives in the Law of the Sea, all published by Brill. He has authored more than 90 publications in English in addition to his more than 80 publications in Korean. His representative recent book publication in English is: The Making of International Law in Korea: From Colony to Asian Power (co-authored, Brill/Nijhoff (2016)). He holds a D.Phil. (Oxford), LL.M.s (NYU, Minnesota, and Korea University), and LL.B. (Korea University).