Professor Sungjoon Cho, an authority on international economic law, joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in 2003 and teaches courses in international law, international trade law, international business transactions, and comparative law. He earned his LL.B. from Seoul National University in 1989, his M.P.A. degree from Seoul National University in 1994 and his LL.M. in international economic law from the University of Michigan Law School in 1997. In 2002, he received his S.J.D. (Doctor of Juridical Science) degree from Harvard Law School. Professor Cho currently serves as international economic adviser to the South Korean government's Ministry of Strategy and Finance. He has held appointments as a Clark Byse Fellow at Harvard Law School, a Research Fellow with Harvard Law School's East Asian Legal Studies Program, and an Emil Noël Fellow at New York University Law School. He has taught at the University of San Diego (Summer Program in Mexico), the Institute of European Studies of Macau, Catholic University of Lublin (Poland), and KDI School of Public Policy and Management (Korea). Professor Cho's works have been selected for the prestigious Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum twice (2007 and 2008). He has also been awarded the Dean's Challenge Grant, which is provided to Chicago-Kent College of Law faculty members who are most productive, three times (2004, 2006 and 2008). Professor Cho has written numerous books and articles on international economic law, including Of the World Trade Court's Burden, 20 European Journal of International Law (forthcoming 2009); Anticompetitive Trade Remedies, 87 North Carolina Law Review 357 (2009); A Quest for WTO's Legitimacy, 4 World Trade Review 391 (2005); A Bridge Too Far: The Fall of the Fifth WTO Ministerial Conference in Cancún and the Future of Trade Constitution, 7 Journal of International Economic Law 219 (2004); Breaking the Barrier between Regionalism and Multilateralism: A New Perspective on Trade Regionalism, 42 Harvard International Law Journal 419 (2001); The Law of the World Trade Organization through Cases (2007-08) (co-authored with Joseph H. H. Weiler & Isabella Feichtner); and Free Markets and Social Regulation: A Reform Agenda of the Global Trading System (Kluwer Law International 2003). Professor Cho is a regular contributor to the International Economic Law and Policy Blog.
Articles and Essays
Anticompetitive Trade Remedies: How Antidumping Measures Obstruct Market Competition, North Carolina Law Review (2009)
Global Constitutional Lawmaking (forthcoming), University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law (2009)
Toward an Identity Theory of International Organizations, American Society of International Law Proceedings (2007)
Conventional international relations (IR) theorists, such as realists, neo-functionalists or regime theorists, view international organizations...
Beyond Doha’s Promises: Administrative Barriers as an Obstruction to Development, Berkeley Journal of International Law (2007)
This article articulates the potentially fatal consequences of administrative barriers to the goal of developing...
Doha’s Development, Berkeley Journal of International Law (2007)
This Essay argues that the current development crisis within the Doha Round is inextricably linked...
Books
Contributions to Books
Development by Moving People: Unearthing the Development Potential of a GATS Visa, Developing Countries in the WTO Legal System (2009)
A New Agenda for Peace: International Trade Law as a Practical Discourse, in Trade as the Guarantor of Peace, Liberty and Security?, Trade as the Guarantor of Peace, Liberty, and Security?: Critical, Historical and Empirical Perspectives (2006)
Rethinking APEC: A New Experiment for a Post-Modern Institutional Arrangement, WTO and East Asia (2004)
The Financial System of Korea and Future Prospects (co-authored with Jeongyeon Keum), The Korean Economy: Current Status and Policy Directions (1996)
Popular Press
Unpublished Papers
A Long and Winding Road: The Doha Round Negotiation in the World Trade Organization, ExpressO (2009)
This article provides a concise history of the Doha Round negotiation, analyzes its deadlock and...
Global Constitutional Lawmaking, ExpressO (2009)
Global Constitutional Lawmaking
Abstract
This article identifies a nascent phenomenon of “global constitutional...
An Identity Crisis of International Organizations, ExpressO (2009)
An Identity Crisis of International Organizations
Abstract
International organizations (IOs) are...
The World Trade Constitutional Court, ExpressO (2009)
The World Trade Constitutional Court Sungjoon Cho Abstract Although a court, as a judicial organ,...
Toward an Identity Theory of International Organizations, ExpressO (2008)
Toward an Identity Theory of International Organizations
Abstract
Today, we live in...
Book Reviews and Other Shorter Works
The Bush Administration and Democrats Reach a Bipartisan Deal on Trade Policy, ASIL Insights (2007)
Book Review (reviewing Petros C. Mavroidis & Alan O. Sykes, The WTO and International Trade Law: Dispute Settlement (2005)), Global Law Books (2006)
Professors Petros Mavroidis and Alan Sykes have produced a dependable compendium on the WTO dispute...