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Jeong-Ho Roh '88
Director
jr253@columbia.edu

Jeong-Ho Roh is the Director of the Center for Korean Legal Studies at Columbia Law School. He was Associate Professor of law at Yonsei University from 2004-2008.  He served as legal advisor to the Korean government on the KEDO North Korean Light-water Reactor Project and has visited North Korea on six occasions negotiating nuclear liability protocols for the project.  A member of the New York Bar, he worked in private practice from 1988 to 1990 in New York and in Seoul from 1993 to 1994.  He served as an officer in the Korean military at the Ministry of National Defense from 1990 to 1993. He presently teaches Geopolitics of Law and Conflict on the Korean Peninsula and Korean Legal System in the Global Economy at Columbia Law School.  He holds a B.A. from Seoul National University (1985) and a J.D. from Columbia Law School (1988), where he served as editor for the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law.  He has published in topics relating to law and unification, including a 4 volume Constitutional Handbook of Korean Unification (co-editor and contributor, 2002).

Joan Rueb Wargo
Deputy Director

Joan Wargo is Deputy Director of the Center for Korean Legal Studies at Columbia Law School. She holds a B.A. from St. Olaf College, and M.A. in Modern European History from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a C.Phil. in Modern European History from the University of California, Los Angeles.  She has two decades of experience as a fundraiser in university settings and in the fields of local economic development and human services.

Henri Féron '16 LL.M.
Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Henri Féron is a Post-Doctoral Research Scholar for the Center for Korean Legal Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Science of Law from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (2015). He also holds an LL.M. from Columbia University (2016), an LL.M. in Chinese Law from Tsinghua University (2010), as well as a double LL.B. in French and English Law from Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and King's College London (2009). His research focuses on the legal, political, economic, and human rights dimensions of East-West relations, particularly regarding China and the Korean Peninsula. He became the first non-Chinese Ph.D. at Tsinghua Law School to receive the "Outstanding Student, First Class" award, in recognition of his dissertation's critical inquiry into The Chinese Model of Human Rights (2015). His other works include The Philippines v. China Jurisdictional Award and its Implications for the Republic of Korea (2016), as well as Doom and Gloom or Economic Boom: The Myth of the North Korean Collapse (2014). The latter was selected as "standard reading" in a summer school on Korean division between the Freie Universität Berlin and Seoul National University.