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KFG welcomes new senior fellows: Andrew Hurrell and Keun-Gwan Lee

On 1 September 2018, Prof. Andrew Hurrell and Prof. Dr. Keun-Gwan Lee joined the Research Group as new senior fellows.

Andrew Hurrell is Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University and a Fellow of Balliol College. He was elected to the British Academy in 2011 and to the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars in 2010. He is a Delegate of Oxford University Press and a member of the Finance Committee (the board of the company). His research interests cover theories of international relations; theories of global governance; the history of thought on international relations; comparative regionalism and regional powers; and the international relations of the Americas, with particular reference to Brazil. His current work focuses on the history of the globalization of international society and the implications for 21st century global order. He is completing a short introduction to global governance. Publications include On Global Order. Power, Values and the Constitution of International Society (OUP, 2008) which was the winner of International Studies Association Prize for Best Book in the field of International Relations in 2009; (with Ngaire Woods), Inequality, Globalization and World Politics (1999); and (with Louise Fawcett), Regionalism in World Politics (1995).

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Keun-Gwan Lee is a professor of law at the School of Law, Seoul National University, Korea. He received his LL.B. from Seoul National University, LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center and Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. His doctoral thesis titled “The Law of State Succession in the Post-Decolonization Period with Special Reference to Germany and the former Soviet Union� revisited the law of state succession from a historical and critical perspective. He taught international law at various institutions including the Republic of Korea Naval Academy, Konkuk University (Seoul, Korea) and Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan) before joining the School of Law, Seoul National University in 2004. His research interests include, among others, the history and theory of international law (in particular, the ‘reception’ of modern international law in East Asia), the law of state succession (with particular reference to the relations between South and North Korea), the law of the sea and the international protection of cultural heritage. He served as director of studies (English-speaking section) at the Hague Academy of International Law in 2010. He has worked closely with UNESCO in the protection of cultural property, serving as, among others, chairperson of the Inter-Governmental Committee Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Countries of Origin in the 2012-2014 period. He gave a special lecture at the Hague Academy of International Law on “the Return of Displaced Cultural Objects to their Countries of Origin� in 2018.

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