Dr. jur. Hyun Jung LEE (Grace)

Sprechstunde: nach Vereinbarung

 

Presentation of the Master Thesis (2017): European Court of Human Rights and Same-Sex Marriage: Proportionality or something else? (Supervisor: Professor Dr. Laura Clérico)

Presentation of the Doctoral Thesis (2021): Discrimination based on sexual orientation in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Constitutional Court of Korea (CCK): towards the prohibition of discrimination (Supervisor: Professor Dr. jur. Jan-Reinard Sieckmann)

 

Hyun Jung Lee (Grace) studied English Education as her Bachelor’s degree and became a certified English Teacher by the Ministry of Education in South Korea in 2000.

She has worked in the financial industry as a dealer/trader both in Seoul and Singapore for about 10 years.

In 2010, she joined the Law School in Seoul and successfully graduated in 2013. She is a qualified Korean lawyer as well as a patent lawyer acknowledged by the Ministry of Justice and Korean Bar Association.

As a representative attorney at law, she practiced law mainly as a litigation lawyer in criminal, civil, and human rights lawsuits until she joined the master program of Human Rights at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany. She thus holds a Master’s degree in Human Rights. In her master’s thesis, she wrote on “European Court of Human Rights and Same-Sex Marriage: Proportionality or something else?” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Laura Clérico.

Since April 2018, she works as Research Associate at Law Faculty and teaches proseminars of ‚Problem of Constitutional Interpretation‘, ‘EU non-discrimination law,‘ ‚case laws of European Court of Human Rights‘ at the Law faculty of the FAU.

She has submitted her doctoral thesis about ‚Discrimination based on sexual orientation in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Constitutional Court of Korea (CCK): towards the prohibition of discrimination‘ and completed an oral dissertation in July 2021 (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. jur. Jan-Reinard Sieckmann).

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

WS 2018/2019               Proseminar: Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights

SS 2019                           Proseminar: Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights

Proseminar: EU Anti-Discrimination Law

WS 2019/2020              Proseminar: EU Anti-Discrimination Law

SS 2020                          Proseminar: Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights

Proseminar: EU Anti-Discrimination Law

WS 2020/2021              Proseminar: Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights

Proseminar: EU Anti-Discrimination Law

SS 2021                           Proseminar: Problem of Constitutional Interpretation

Proseminar: EU Anti-Discrimination Law

WS 2021/2022              Proseminar: EU Anti-Discrimination Law

SS 2022                           Proseminar: EU Anti-Discrimination Law

WS 2022/2023              Proseminar: Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights

Leading Cases of Human Rights (co-teaching, Master Human Rights)

 

EDUCATION:              

Oct 2016 ~ July 2021  Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen, Germany

Ph.d in Law/ Supervisor: Professor Dr. jur. Jan-Reinard Sieckmann (Date of oral exam: 14 July 2021)

Sep 2015 ~ Sep 2017  Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen, Germany

Master of Arts Human Rights/ Supervisor: Professor Dr. Laura Clérico

Mar 2010 ~ Feb 2013  Hakuk University of Foreign Studies Law School in Seoul, Korea

Master’s Degree in Law/ Member of International Law, Member of Human Rights Law

Qualified Korean lawyer (Registration number 17258, Korean Bar Association)

Jan 2009~Feb 2009  University of San Diego in USA

TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Language/ Seminar Program for the English major scholars

Fall 2006  Sookmyung Women’s University in Seoul, Korea

TESOL Certificate Program/ Graduate School of TESOL/ finished the program with top student

Feb 1995 ~ Feb 2000  Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, Korea

Bachelor’s Degree – Major in English Education/ Certified English Teacher

Nov 1996 ~ Aug 1997  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in USA

Intensive English Institute, Level 1 Class/ Chairman of level 1 class 

Sep 1997 ~ Feb 1998  Parkland College in Illinois, USA

Straight A student for the fall semester 1998, Scholarship nominee for the spring semester 1999

ACADEMIC PARTICIPATION AS A SPEAKER:

June 2022                    The evolving concept of family in German Context: Focusing on the discussion of Same-Sex Marriage

Spoke at international conference of 2022 on the topic of Recent evolution of the concept of family in law organized by Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

March 2022                The War against Ukraine: International law and human rights perspectives

Spoke at international conference regarding the Ukraine War organized by Korea-Poland Law Association

March 2022                Discrimination based on Sexual Orientation in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and the Constitutional Court of Korea: towards the prohibition of discrimination                                                                       

Spoke at the European Court of Human Rights Cases Forum organized by the Korean Public Law Association

April 2021  Artificial Intelligence and Public Administration in the future              

Spoke about “Artificial Intelligence from the constitutional perspective” at the online conference organized by the Korean National Assembly Library

Dec 2017                    The Philosophical Faculty Orientation Panel                               Erlangen, Germany

Spoke about academic experiences to study in the interdisciplinary international master program and pursuing for doctoral studies

 

INTERVIEW

Sep 2020  Interview with Hankyoreh 21 about Anti-Discrimination Law              Seoul, Korea

http://h21.hani.co.kr/arti/world/world_general/49300.html

 

ACADEMIC PUBLISHMENT: Articles

May 2021  Book Review on  ‚The Balance of Law‘ by prof. Seung Pil Choi (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies) published by National Assembly Library in Seoul, Korea https://www.nanet.go.kr/datasearch/commant/selectWeekCommantList.do

Dec 2021 Artificial Intelligence and Constitutional Issues – Focusing on discussions of Algorithmic Discrimination in EU published by the Constitutional Court of Korea, https://doi.org/10.35215/jcj.2021.8.2.004

Dec 2021 Development of the Sexual Minority Rights in Asia – Focusing on the latest case studies in India and Taiwan published by European Constitution, https://doi.org/10.21592/eucj.2021.37.271

Dec 2021 Sexual Orientation and the right to marry: a case study of ECtHR Oliari and others v. Italy published by Law Research Institute of Chungbuk National University, http://dx.doi.org/10.34267/cblj.2021.32.2.1

Feb 2022 The Law of Balancing applied in the German Constitutional Court Cases of „Lüth“ and „Esra“ published by Law Research Institute of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, http://www.riss.kr/link?id=A108056125

March 2022 Hate Speech: Freedom of Expression and non-discrimination – Analysis on the recent case-law of the European Court of Human Rights- published by Law Research Institute of Chonnam National University, https://doi.org/10.38135/hrlr.2022.28.531

April 2022 Analysis on Freedom of Expression and Legal Liability of YouTube – From a Comparative Law Perspective – published by Press Arbitration Commission of Korea, https://doi.org/10.22837/pac.2022.8.1.93

April 2022 Freedom of Religion and Pluralism of Democracy – Critical Analysis on Islamophobia with the examples of the ECtHR cases – published by Chosun University Law Review, http://dx.doi.org/10.18189/isicu.2022.29.1.225

June 2022 Trend and implications in the decisions related to personal data protection in the European Court of Human Rights, published by Gachun University Law Review, https://scholar.kyobobook.co.kr/article/detail/4010028905292

 

Book

Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation – Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and the Constitutional Court of Korea, Part of the Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Rights book series (CHREN, volume 8), Springer

Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation | SpringerLink