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Yi Seul Kim

Law Teaching Fellow

Email: kimyiseul@stl.pku.edu.cn

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EDUCATION

Ph.D candidate, University of Hong Kong

LL.M., Harvard Law School

J.D. and J.M., Peking University School of Transnational Law

B.A., Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul)


BIO

Yi Seul Kim received her LL.M. at Harvard Law School, and received a J.D. and a J.M. from Peking University School of Transnational Law. Prior to her legal studies, she received a B.A in International Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul). She also completed a Junior Women Professionals Training at the National Diplomacy Center in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea. She is a Ph.D candidate at the University of Hong Kong and has been awarded the Hong Kong Ph.D Fellowship Grant.

 

As an experienced lecturer, Yi Seul worked as a peer consultant at the Center of Applied English Studies at the University of Hong Kong, and lectured at Northwest Agricultural and Forestry University (China) and Wagenigen University and Research (The Netherlands). Her professional experience includes working at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP (London), Asian International Arbitration Centre (Kuala Lumpur), Morgan Stanley Capital International (Melbourne) and Booz & Co. (Seoul).

 

She is also a member of the New York Bar.


Publications

  • Yi Seul Kim, Transgenerational Legislative Awareness Issues in Children’s Food, 35 Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum (forthcoming, 2024)

  • Yi Seul Kim, Assessment of Selected Legislation Relevant for Antimicrobial Resistance in Republic of Korea (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) (forthcoming, 2024)

  • Yi Seul Kim, The Need to Reconceptualize Wild Animals Post-COVID 19: Miscoordination of Wildlife Regulations in China’s Food Legal Order, Pace Environmental Law Review (2023)

  • Yi Seul Kim, Using Law to Prevent Further Unequal Access to Food in North Korea (Springer, Book Chapter) (2023)

  • Yi Seul Kim, The Case of Anticipating Changes in the North Korean Food Safety Regime, 35 Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation 299 (University of Oregon) (2020)

  • Yi Seul Kim, Reconfiguring Children in Food Law as an Essential Subset: Review of Food Nutrition Facts Labels, 24 Drake Journal of Agricultural Law 399 (2019)

  • Yi Seul Kim, Who Banned My Cheese? Is China’s 2018 Cabinet Restructuring Enough?, International Trade Law & Regulation Issue 1, 7 (Sweet & Maxwell) (peer-reviewed journal) (2019)

  • Yi Seul Kim, Encouraging Food Safety Standard Negotiations in the One-Belt-One-Road Initiative, 2 Cardozo International Comparative, Policy & Ethics Law Review 475 (2019) 

  • Francis Snyder & Yi Seul Kim; China’s 2015 Food Safety Law: Crossing the River but Feeling the Stones and Avoiding Low Branches?, 6 Chinese Journal of Comparative Law 1 (2018) (Oxford University Press) Selected as Editor’s Choice

  • Yi Seul Kim, Building a Two-Fold Structure in Resolving Disputes on the Korean Peninsula, 22 Southwestern Journal of International Law 375 (2015)

Presentations

  • ‘The Formalistic Ebb and Flow in China’s Food Safety Regulatory Governance: Periods of Under-Regulation and Over-Regulation’ at University of Hong Kong Law Doctoral Colloquium (Hosted by the University of Hong Kong) (Aug. 31, 2020)

  • ‘Growing Pains in Food Law: When Food Safety Improvement Efforts Meet Food Availability Problems in North Korea’s 2013 Food Hygiene Law and China’s 1965 Administrative Provisions for Food Hygiene’ at the Second Annual Conference on Food Law and Policy, Atlanta (Workshop Presented by The Academy of Food Law and Policy and Co-sponsored by the Georgia State University College of Law Atlanta, GA) 

  • ‘Legal Research with ‘Search,’ ‘Experience’ and ‘Credence’ Quality Cases’ at 2019 Association of Legal Writing Directors Biennial Conference, Boston (Hosted by Suffolk Law School) (May 29-31, 2019)                                

  • ‘Predicting Paradigm Shifts in the North Korean Food Safety Regime Based on China’s Experience’ at the Harvard Law School Institute for Global Law and Policy Scholars Workshop, Bangkok (Sponsored by Harvard Law School and Thailand Institute of Justice) (Jan. 4-10, 2019)

  •  ‘Who Banned My Cheese? Agency Coordination Problems in China' at the Institute for Global Law and Policy Conference, Harvard Law School (June 2-3, 2018) 

  • 'One-Belt-One-Road Initiative: Unifying Food Safety Standards with a Focus on Central Asia’ at the 15th Asian Law Institute Conference, Seoul National University School of Law (May 10-11, 2018)

  • ‘Legal document drafting and reviewing in Cross-border Transactions’ Invited lecture at Junzejun Law Firm, Shenzhen, China Oct. 2017

  • Commentator for Panel: 9th International Workshop for Young Scholars ‘The Future of Transnational Law: The EU, USA, China, and the BRICS’ European Law Journal (‘Expert and Lawyers in the Making of Transnational Law’), Shenzhen, China, Nov. 2012  

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