| Professor Y.S. Lee is currently heading the Law and Development Institute. He has taught at law schools and business schools throughout the United States, Asia, and Australia, and practiced law at government and leading law firms internationally. He graduated in economics with academic distinction from the University of California at Berkeley and studied law at the University of Cambridge. Author of Reclaiming Development in the World Trading System (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Safeguard Measures in World Trade: The Legal Analysis (Kluwer Law International, 2007), and Law and Development Perspective on International Trade Law (Cambridge University Press, 2011), Professor Lee has over fifty scholarly publications in the areas of international trade law and economic development. His recent work has been focused on the impact that domestic and international legal systems, particularly the legal framework for international trade, has on economic development. He has also developed the concept of microtrade, a new system of international trade designed to alleviate populations of the least-developed countries of extreme poverty. He is currently an associate editor of the Journal of World Trade and the founding editor-in-chief of the Law and Development Review. |
