| Career |
Ying-Chieh WU’s main teaching and research areas are contract law, trust law, shipping law, and comparative private law - especially the comparison of East Asian civil law and common law. He received his LLB and LLM from Korea University and holds MSt. and D.Phil. degrees from the University of Oxford. His doctoral research was on comparative trusts law (Thesis title: Dispositions in Breach of Trust – A Comparison of English and Japanese Responses). Before joining SNU, he taught at National Taiwan University, College of Law and at Singapore Management University, School of Law. He also taught an intensive course (i.e., Private Law in East Asia) at National University of Singapore in 2023. He has taught and written in English, Korean and Chinese. For example, “Unlocking Three Requirements of Real Subrogation” in Korean Journal of Civil Law (2011, written in Korean), “Breach of Trust: Remedies and Their Legal Foundations” in National Taiwan University Law Journal (2015, written in Chinese), and “Trusts Reimagined: The Transplantation and Revolution of Trust Law in North East Asia” in American Journal of Comparative Law (2020, written in English). He also contributed to the books Trust Law in Asian Civil Law Jurisdictions: A Comparative Analysis (edited by Lusina Ho & Rebecca Lee, Cambridge University Press, 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), Asia-Pacific Trusts Law: Adaptation in Context (Ying-Khai Liew and Ying-Chieh WU (eds), Hart Publishing, 2023), and The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and AI (edited by Phillip Morgan at al., CUP, 2024). A monograph on comparative trust law (Cambridge University Press) is scheduled to be published in 2025. |
