Dr. jur. Hyun Jung LEE (Grace)

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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).

For updated CV and list of publishment: 1. CV_Dr. jur. Grace Lee_updated

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

 

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