Kate Yoon

Kate is an Academic Fellow at Columbia Law School. She is a scholar of contracts and arbitration, and is especially interested in sovereign states’ contracts with private parties.

Kate graduated from Harvard College, summa cum laude, where she won the Hoopes Prize and the Mill-Taylor Prize for her work in political theory. She attended the University of Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar, obtaining an MPhil (with distinction) and DPhil in political theory. At Yale Law School, where Kate obtained her J.D., she won the Ambrose Gherini Prize for best essay in international law. 

Before coming to Columbia, Kate worked at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, where she assisted in arbitrations involving sovereign states, state entities and international organizations. She also worked at the World Bank's International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes. 

Kate's work has been published or is forthcoming in The Yale Law Journal, Boston College Law Review, Michigan Journal of International Law, and Yale Journal of International Law Online, among other outlets.