In November 2016, Professors Steven Davidoff Solomon and Stavros Gadinis returned to Seoul to delivered seminars on business law. They held their class at the academy of Bae, Kim & Lee, the second largest law firm in Korea in conjunction with the Korea LawTimes, the leading legal newspaper in Korea. Professor Solomon’s lectures focused on […]
Steven Davidoff Solomon and Stavros Gadinis Deliver Business Law Seminars in Seoul
Korea Law Center Hosts Latin American Scholars
On November 28, 2016, the Korea Law Center welcomed scholars from leading law schools in Latin America to Berkeley. Co-Directors Laurent Mayali, Robbins Professor of Law, and John Yoo, Heller Professor of Law, convened the conference to compare maritime disputes in Asia and South America. Prompted by an international tribunal opinion in July on the […]
Korea Law Center Co-Hosts Career Talk with Salle Yoo, General Counsel of Uber Technologies, Inc.
On September 26, 2016, the Korea Law Center co-hosted its fifth in-house career talk with Salle Yoo, General Counsel of Uber Technologies, Inc. Salle manages legal and regulatory issues for Uber, a $66 billion company with operations in over 250 cities and 50 countries. As in-house counsel, Salle spoke about the importance of spotting issues […]
Korea Law Center Co-Hosts Career Talk with Marie Oh Huber, General Counsel of eBay
On August 26, 2016, the Korea Law Center co-hosted its fourth in-house career talk with Marie Oh Huber, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of eBay and a board member of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Marie previously was a Senior Vice President for Agilent Technologies and a corporate counsel at Hewlett Packard. She is […]
Berkeley Law Alumnus Hong Sik Cho Appointed Dean of Seoul National University Law School
Seoul National University appointed Berkeley Law alumnus Hong Sik Cho as the new dean of the Law School. Dean Cho received his LLM and JSD from Boalt Hall before becoming a professor at SNU Law School, where he has taught since 1997. Dean Cho credits his Berkeley studies with turning him toward an academic career. […]
Professors Laurent Mayali and John Yoo Participate in the Jeju Forum
Professors Laurent Mayali and John Yoo visited Korea in May 2016 to participate in the Jeju Forum, an international forum for the discussion of economic, political, and social issues in Asia. On a panel sponsored by the Korean Society of International Law, the largest and oldest scholarly association in Korea, they presented their joint research […]
Berkeley Law and Seoul National University Law School Hold Inaugural Joint Faculty Workshop in Korea
Berkeley Law and Seoul National University Law School held the inaugural meeting of their joint faculty workshop in May, 2016. This unprecedented annual conference brings together professors from both universities to discuss their latest scholarship and its impact on the law and legal professions of both nations. Professors Dan Farber, Taeku Lee, and Amanda Tyler […]
Korea Law Center Hosts Talk on U.S.-North Korea Relations with Edward Dong
Edward Dong On April 13, 2016, the Korea Law Center hosted a lunch talk on U.S.-North Korea Relations with Edward Dong. Mr. Dong, a Berkeley Law alumnus and a thirty-seven year veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service, recently completed his third tour of duty in South Korea. Mr. Dong spoke about the new sanctions recently […]
Korea Law Center Hosts Career Talk with Hyun Park, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of PG&E Corporation
On February 5, 2016, the Korea Law Center co-hosted its third in-house career talk with Hyun Park, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of PG&E Corporation. Hyun shared his candid reflections on his initial struggles in assimilating into the American culture after he immigrated from South Korea to the United States at the age of […]
Korea Law Center Hosts Student Talk with Twitter’s Vice President of Legal and Deputy General Counsel
On January 13, 2016, the Korea Law Center co-hosted its second in-house career talk, featuring Benjamin Lee, Twitter’s Vice President in charge of litigation and intellectual property matters and Deputy General Counsel. Ben discussed how the breadth of his experience — which includes in-house experience at Twitter, Google, and AT&T, as well as his firm […]