Biography
Dean Hee Eun Lee has been a member of the HILS faculty since 2002 and is currently serving as the Law School's fourth dean.

An expert in public international law, he is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Asian Yearbook of International Law (Brill), Editor of the Korean Journal of International and Comparative Law, and Managing Editor of both the Encyclopedia of Public International Law in Asia (Brill) and the Encyclopedia of Ocean Law and Policy in Asia-Pacific (Brill). His notable publications include "South Korea," in the Oxford Handbook on International Law in Asia and the Pacific (Oxford University Press, 2019); The Making of International Law in Korea: From Colony to Asian Power (Brill/Nijhoff, 2016) and Northeast Asian Perspectives of International Law: Contemporary Issues and Challenges (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2013) and Dokdo: Historical Appraisal and International Justice (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2011).

Dean Lee has served on the Board of Directors of Advocates International and the Board of Governors for the Foundation for the Development of International Law in Asia (DILA). He was a visiting fellow at Emory Law School’s Center for the Study of Law and Religion in 2011 and visiting scholar at Regent University's Center for Global Justice in 2018.

He is a frequent commentator on major legal issues from Korea and abroad, appearing regularly in news media. He currently hosts a weekly radio segment on Arirang Radio’s “Good Morning Seoul” program and previously hosted "The Point," a weekly news program broadcast by Arirang TV, Korea's leading English language broadcasting station.

Before joining the HILS faculty, Dean Lee was an associate at Burlingham Underwood LLP in New York, where he practiced maritime law and commercial litigation.

Dean Lee earned his bachelor’s degree (A.B.) in Political Science and Asian Studies from Vassar College. He received his law degree (J.D.), with honors, from Syracuse University College of Law, and his master’s degree (M.A.) in International Relations from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He also holds a master of laws degree (LL.M.) in International Legal Studies from New York University School of Law.