In Residence
Current Courses
Private Law in East Asia (Korea, Taiwan, Japan)
Ying-Chieh Wu’s main teaching and research areas are property and trusts, and comparative private law. He received his LLB and LLM degrees from Korea University and holds MSt and DPhil degrees from the University of Oxford. Before joining Seoul National University, he taught at National Taiwan University’s College of Law and at Singapore Management University’s School of Law. He has taught and written in English, Korean and Chinese. He has contributed to the books Trust Law in Asian Civil Law Jurisdictions: A Comparative Analysis (edited by Lusina Ho and Rebecca Lee, CUP, 2013), Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia Vol. II Formation and Third-Party Beneficiaries (edited by Mindy C-Wishart et al., Oxford University Press, 2018), The Private Law Implications of Cryptocurrencies (edited by David Fox et al., Oxford University Press, 2019), and Asia-Pacific Trusts Law: Adaptation in Context (co-edited, Hart, 2022).