Gina J. Choi is a Fellow at the Public Law and Policy Program at U.C. Berkeley School of Law and a Research Fellow at the Innovation, Competition & Regulation Law Center at Korea University. Over more than two decades in legal practice, government, and academia, she has worked on regulatory and institutional questions from inside each of those settings — at one of Korea’s leading law firms, in senior positions in the Office of the President of the Republic of Korea, and on the faculties of Seoul National University and Korea University. Her scholarship addresses what sustainability demands of legal institutions: how energy, competition, and technology governance can be structured so that decisions made today remain accountable to the interests of future generations.
Her research interest lies in the design of legal institutions capable of making decisions whose consequences outlast them — how to price carbon, how to structure an energy market, how far to let automation replace human judgment. Her work asks how the mandates of such institutions should be drawn, which objectives each should be entrusted with, and what evidentiary and procedural rules will keep their decisions reasoned, transparent, and durable over time. Having pursued this question in energy and climate law — from Korea’s carbon pricing framework to the design of linked carbon markets — she now carries it into antitrust, examining how the proper scope of a competition authority’s mandate should be defined as such bodies are asked to serve purposes well beyond their original design, and into AI governance, including how to preserve the human capacity for judgment as automation reshapes work. In her view, sustainability is as much a question about human capacities as about natural resources, and she treats the governance of energy and the governance of AI as one and the same problem of institutional design.
She holds a J.S.D. from U.C. Berkeley School of Law, an LL.M. from New York University School of Law, and an LL.B. from Seoul National University College of Law. She was a Hauser Global Fellow at NYU School of Law and a Post-doctoral Scholar and Visiting Scholar at Berkeley Law, and has taught as a Visiting Professor at Seoul National University School of Law and an Adjunct Professor at Korea University Graduate School of Legal Studies. She has published on environmental, energy, and economic regulation in English and Korean.
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