Hwa-Jin Kim, William W. Cook Global Law Professor at Michigan Law, is a professor of law and business at Seoul National University School of Law. He also teaches at Seoul National University Business School and in-house executive education programs of large Korean companies and financial institutions. Prof. Kim served as vice dean for international affairs of his school and as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Korean Law. He has taught international corporate governance at Michigan Law, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, and Stanford Law School. Before joining academia in 2006, Prof. Kim practiced corporate and securities law in Korea and Switzerland, where he advised and worked for or with global investment banking houses in their international mergers and acquisitions and capital market transactions.

Prof. Kim has advised the Office of the President of Korea, Korea Fair Trade Commission, Korea Financial Supervisory Service, and Ministry of Justice of Korea. He is a board member of the Korea Association for Chief Financial Officers, Korean Financial Investment Association, and STX Corporation, Korea; and chair of the Korea Investment Bankers Forum. He writes op-eds for leading financial papers in Korea and receives media coverage for his work, speeches, and testimonies before the Korean National Assembly. He won the Book Prize from the Korean National Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005 and 2010 (in business and law, respectively). A member of the New York Bar, Prof. Kim received his BS in mathematics from Seoul National University; Dr Jur, magna cum laude, from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where he was an Adenauer Scholar and worked with Professor Bruno Simma; and his LLM from Harvard Law School.

See Prof. Kim's CV.