Associate Professor of Law
Courses Taught
- International Law
- Commercial Law
- Law and Development
Biography
I examine the role of law, legal frameworks, and institutions in international trade, industrial promotion, economic development, and corporate governance. I have developed analytical frameworks such as the General Theory of Law and Development and analyzed the impact of law and legal institutions in the process of economic development, industrial promotion, property law reform, and public health management (e.g., management of COVID-19).
Additionally, I have published scholarly works on racial and regional economic disparities, the interface between national security and industrial policies, wartime human rights violations, general mechanisms of economic development, and sustainable peace in Northeast Asia.
Publications and Research
- Reconciling Corporate Interests with Broader Social Interests—Pursuit of Corporate Interests Beyond Shareholder Primacy , 13 WILLIAM & MARY BUSINESS LAW REVIEW 1-62 (2022).
- National Security as a Means to a Commercial End: Call for a New Approach, 102 NEBRASKA LAW REVIEW 1-51 (2023).
- Revival of Industrial Policy: Implications for International Trade Law, 34 MINNESOTA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (forthcoming 2025).
- RECLAIMING DEVELOPMENT IN THE WORLD TRADING SYSTEM (3d ed., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2026) (2d ed.).
- SAFEGUARD MEASURES IN WORLD TRADE: THE LEGAL ANALYSIS (4th ed., Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2025) (3d ed.).
- International Trade Law Post Neoliberalism, 68 BUFFALO LAW REVIEW 413-478 (2020).
- Are Retaliatory Trade Measures Justified under the WTO Agreement on Safeguards? 22 JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW 439-458 (2019).
- Three Wrongs Do Not Make a Right: The Conundrum of the U.S. Steel and Aluminum Tariffs, 18 WORLD TRADE REVIEW 481-501 (2019).
- Reconciling RTAs with the WTO Multilateral Trading System: Case for a New Sunset Requirement on RTAs and Development Facilitation, 45 JOURNAL OF WORLD TRADE 625-647 (2011).
- LAW AND DEVELOPMENT: THEORY AND PRACTICE (2d ed. Routledge, 2022).
- General Theory of Law and Development, 50 CORNELL INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 415-472 (2017).
- Managing COVID-19: Legal and Institutional Issues, 23 MINNESOTA JOURNAL OF LAW, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 1-76 (2021).
- Theoretical Basis and Regulatory Framework for Microtrade: Combining Volunteerism with International Trade towards Poverty Elimination, 2 LAW & DEVELOPMENT REVIEW 367-399 (2009).
- The Fallacy of Contract in Sexual Slavery (co-authored with Natsu Taylor Saito and Jonathan Todres), 42 MICHIGAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 291-319 (2021).
- The Last Call for Civil Rights: Toward Economic Equality, 37 GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1265-1303 (2021).
Education
- Ph.D., University of Cambridge
- M.A., University of Cambridge
- L.L.B., University of Cambridge
- B.A., University of California at Berkeley
