Hwang Lee is a professor and the former dean of the Korea University School of Law. His academic interest covers competition laws, digital platforms, intellectual property rights, telecommunication laws, consumer protection, and economic regulations. Prior to joining Korea University in 2008, Professor Lee served the Korea Fair Trade Commission for twelve years, where he played a leading role in prosecuting precedent-setting competition law cases, including the Microsoft tying arrangement case. He concluded his service at the competition law authority with the final position of head of Emerging Competition Issues Team. Subsequently, he was appointed to a Research Counsel for the Justices of the Supreme Court of Korea (2006). In this role Professor Lee drafted final judgments for an extensive array of competition and administrative law cases, including the landmark POSCO Judgment (2007) that has set the liability standard in effects-based approach with regard to abuse of dominance. He has also worked as a consultant at the Division of Competition Law and Policy of OECD in Paris (1998) and clerked at the Northeast Regional Office of the Federal Trade Commission in New York (2002-2003).
