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Professor of Law
BA (1983), University of Maryland
MA (1985), Washington College
JD cum laude (1988), Boston College Law School

Professor Ilhyung Lee is Edward W. Hinton Professor of Law & Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution, at the University of Missouri. He joined the faculty in 1998. He teaches and writes in international commercial arbitration, cross-cultural dispute resolution, and intellectual property. Professor Lee is included in the roster of neutrals for the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board, the University of Missouri Campus Mediation Service, and the World Intellectual Property Organization, among others. He is also a member of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, the London Court of International Arbitration, the United States Council for International Business, and the National Sports Law Institute.

Professor Lee has taught at Waseda University Faculty of Law, in Tokyo, Japan as a Fulbright Scholar, and also at the Tokyo University of Science, Master of Intellectual Property Program. He teaches the cross-cultural dispute resolution subject as adjunct faculty at Pepperdine University School of Law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, and Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution.

Professor Lee's private practice experience includes positions at Cravath, Swaine & Moore (New York) and Kim & Chang (Seoul, Korea). Previously, he was law clerk to the Honorable Joseph F. Weis, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.