Yong-Shik Lee is a scholar in law and development. He is currently the Director of the Law and Development Institute. Lee has taught at leading universities throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia, including New York University, University of Manchester, and University of Sydney. He graduated in economics with academic distinction from the University of California at Berkeley and received law degrees from the University of Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD). He is author of Reclaiming Development in the World Trading System (Cambridge University Press, 2006, 2009, 2016), Microtrade: A New System of Trade Toward Poverty Elimination (Routledge, 2013, 2015), Law and Development Perspective on International Trade Law (Cambridge University Press, 2011, 2013), and Safeguard Measures in World Trade: The Legal Analysis (Edward Edgar, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2014), He has published over eighty scholarly articles, book volumes, chapters, and shorter notes in the areas of law and development, international economic law, comparative law, and international commercial arbitration with leading publishers in North America, Europe and Asia. He has also frequently spoken on issues of law and development, international economic law, and the WTO.
