Hyunsoo Joo

Practice Areas

International Trade, International Arbitration, Corporate, Customs and Economic Sanctions

Career

Ms. Joo is a partner in International Trade Practice Group, who has more than 15 years’ experience working in the field of international trade and investment laws. She is highly regarded for her expertise and extensive experience in assisting clients with a broad range of international trade matters including trade remedy, WTO, FTA and ISDS disputes.

Throughout her career, Ms Joo has been actively involved in numerous FTA negotiations and WTO disputes relating to steel, chemical and electronics industries. In particular, she was involved in KORUS FTA, Korea-EU FTA, Korea–ASEAN FTA, Korea–India CEPA, Korea–Canada FTA, KOREA–Mexico FTA, Korea–Chile FTA and Korea– China FTA as the representative of the Korean government. She has also handled a significant number of WTO litigations such as Korea – Anti-Dumping Duties on Imports of Certain Paper from Indonesia, US – Anti-dumping and Countervailing Measures on Large Residential Washers from Korea and US Anti-Dumping Measures on Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods from Korea. Most recently, she has successfully represented the Korean government regarding United States - Safeguard measure on imports of large residential washers case (DS 546) against the US government.

Ms Joo also provides legal advice to many Korean and multinational corporations in Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) under various Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) and FTAs including those falling under the arbitration rules of the ISCID and UNCITRAL

in a wide range of industries. Most recently, she successfully served as counsel in the second ICSID claim by a foreign investor against Korea and has lectured as an adjunct professor at Hanyang University School of Law since 2017 and selected as 2021-2022 Fellow of Institute of International Economic Law at Georgetown Law center.

She has been recognized as a leading lawyer by the major legal publications including Chambers and Who's Who Legal since 2019.

Professional Memberships

Korean Bar Association, Seoul Bar Association

Publications

Korea Chapter in GAR Know how: Investment Treaty Arbitration 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 ; Korea Chapter in Getting the Deal Through – Trade & Customs 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 ; ISDS Case Studies Relating to Energy Charter Treaties (Parkyoungsa Publishing Co., 2016) ;

An Examination of the Investment Chapter of the Executed Canada-EU CETA Following the Lisbon Treaty and Implications for the Korea-EU FTA and BITs (Hongik Law Review, 2013); A Case Study of ICSID Jurisdiction Decision in the Philip Morris v. Uruguay Case Regarding Tobacco Packaging and Labeling Regulations (International Trade Law, 2014)

Personal

Georgetown Law Center (LLM, 2022) ;

Yonsei University (Ph.D. in Law, 2014);

Columbia Law School (International Trade Law course, 2005);

Yonsei University (LLM, 2002);

Yonsei University (BA, 1999)