The Director of CEELP
The Director of CEELP Hong Sik CHO
Hong Sik CHO is a professor of law teaching and researching in environmental Law, Administrative Law, and General Theory of Law and Policy at Seoul National University School of Law. Before joining the SNU faculty, he was a district court judge. After resigning his judgeship to practice law at a law firm, he went to Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley to advance his studies. After finishing his LL.M and J.S.D degree at Boalt Hall, Prof. Cho was appointed as the first law professor in Korea specializing in environmental law. He is currently Chief Director of Center for Energy and Environmental Law and Policy of SNU. Prof. Cho has been a visiting professor of law at Boalt Hall, Duke Law School, and the University of Tokyo, and a visiting scholar at Boalt Hall and Freiburg University in Germany. He also worked with the Korean government as a member of the Regulatory Reform Subcommittee of the Ministry of Environment of Korea. He currently works as a member of the Presidential Committee on Green Growth and a few other governmental committees. He is a member of the Seoul and New York State bar associations.
CEELP Faculty Members
CEELP Faculty Members Jae Hyup LEE
Jae Hyup LEE is a professor of law at Seoul National University. He earned his JD at Northwestern University School of Law, a Ph.D. in American Civilization at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Anthropology, magna cum laude, from Seoul National University. Prof. Lee teaches courses related to Anthropology of Law, Law and Social Sciences, International Environmental Law, and Anglo-American Law. He has been a visiting Professor at William S. Richardson School of Law, Hawaii University. He is currently a faculty member of the Center for Energy and Environmental Law and Policy of SNU. He is affiliated with New York State Bar.
CEELP Faculty Members Seong Wook HEO
Seong Wook HEO is an associate professor of law at Seoul National University. He holds a Ph.D. and LL.M. in law and B.A. in economics, all from Seoul National University. Before joining the faculty of SNU, he served as a judge of the Seoul Central District Court in Korea. He has been a visiting scholar at the Korean Studies Program, Stanford University. He is currently a faculty member of the Center for Energy and Environmental Law and Policy of SNU. His research interests are climate change law, energy industry regulation, and financial regulation.
CEELP Faculty Members John M. Leitner
John M. Leitner is an assistant professor of law at Seoul National University. In his research and teaching, Prof. Leitner focuses on intellectual property law, internet law, and the broad policy implications of government regulation in domestic and international public law. He received his J.D. degree cum laude from Harvard Law School and then practiced at the law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York from 2007-2009. Prof. Leitner joined the SNU School of Law faculty in 2009, becoming the youngest professor in the history of SNU. He is a faculty member of the Center for Energy and Environmental Law and Policy at SNU and is also affiliated with the SNU Law and Technology Center. Prof. Leitner’s articles relating to IP, internet regulation, and environmental law have been published in journals in the United States and Korea.
CEELP Faculty Members Woo Young KIM
Woo Young KIMM is a professor of architecture at Sungkyunkwan University. He did his master of architecture at U.C. Berkeley and conducted his doctorate researches on the ubiquitous public domain at Harvard University and on social information institutions at Seoul National University (SNU). He has been developing the concept of "Dynamic Urbanism" as a socio-physical prototype of networked communities layered with wired and wireless communication and information technologies which illustrates the group proximity of interactive activities on the identical context of micro or macro scale. In terms of his work with ubiquitous environments, Prof. Kimm participated in the strategic plan of the multi-functional administrative city (Sejong 2006) and is working on the design of the information pavilion at Tomorrow City (Incheon Free Economic Zone 2008). Wooyoung Kimm, a licensed architect in both New York and Seoul, founded his own design research lab, the Cyber Space in Digital Environment, in 1997 as well as design firm, Kimm and Lee Architects, in 1995.
Advisory Board Members
Daniel Bodansky
Arizona State University
Denise Antolini
University of Hawaii Law School
Kazu Kato
Nagoya University
Daniel Farber
University of california, Berkeley
Jiunn-rong Yeh
National Taiwan University
Mingyuan Wang
Tsinghua University