You Kyung Huh
Assistant Professor of Law
Email: yhuh@stu.edu
Mail:
St. Thomas University College of Law
Faculty Suite (209)
16401 NW 37th Ave
Miami Gardens, FL 33054
Education:
B.A., Ewha Womans University
M.A., Seoul National University
LL.M., Harvard Law School
LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center
S.J.D., University of Virginia School of Law
You Kyung Huh
Professor Dr. You Kyung Huh joined St. Thomas University Benjamin L. Crump College of Law as an Assistant Professor of Law in 2024. Professor Huh’s scholarly interests include financial regulation, consumer protection, privacy and data protection, artificial intelligence, and international law.
Prior to joining STU Law, Professor Huh was a Hauser Global Post-Doctoral Fellow at NYU School of Law affiliated with the Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement. At NYU School of Law, Professor Huh researched the comparative institutional structure of financial regulation and the independence of financial regulatory authorities.
Professor Huh received her S.J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law (2020). She is also a graduate of Harvard Law School (LL.M., ‘13) and Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M. ‘14). Her recent publication includes “Financial Regulatory Agency Behavior: Oscillating Priorities,” which was published in the George Washington Business & Finance Law Review (2024). Professor Huh’s publication on the institutional structure of financial regulation appeared as a chapter in The Cambridge Handbook of Twin Peaks Financial Regulation (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Professor Huh has more than 15 years of experience as a practicing lawyer in South Korea, where she served as Commissioner at the Korea Copyright Commission and a staff attorney at the Korean Financial Supervisory Service. Professor Huh is the Director of the Digital and Financial Regulatory Policy of Consumers Korea. In this Seoul-based advocacy group, she advises consumer protection in digital financial markets, personal data protection, and artificial intelligence. She is also an elected Council Member of Consumers International, where she advises on consumer advocacy strategies at the international level.
Book Chapters:
Regulatory Structure and the Revolving Door Phenomenon in South Korea – Evidence From the 2011 Savings Bank Crisis (with Hongjoo Jung), in THE CAMBRIDGE HANDBOOK OF TWIN PEAKS FINANCIAL REGULATION, Andrew Godwin & Andrew Schmulow (eds.) (2021, Cambridge University Press).
Financial Consumer Protection in Korea (with Hongjoo Jung & Misoo Choi) in AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON OF FINANCIAL CONSUMER PROTECTION, Chen, Tsai-Jyh (ed.) (2018, Springer).
Articles:
Financial Regulatory Agency Behavior: Oscillating Priorities, 7 The George Washington Business & Finance Law Review 1 (2024)
International Financial Regulation and Financial Consumer Protection, 41 Korean Commercial Law Journal 341 (2022) (in Korean).
Legal Implications of Financial Supervision with Artificial Intelligence (AI), 23 Korean Journal of Securities Law 221 (2022) (in Korean).
Digital Financial Supervision and Financial Consumer Protection – International Review of Suptech Uses and its Challenges, 19 Korean Journal of Financial Law 171 (2022) (in Korean).
Towards Regulatory Mass Redress Schemes – Mass Redress in Financial Mis-selling Scandals in the U.S., the U.K. and South Korea, 30 Indiana Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 99 (2019).
- Reprinted in INNOVATION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF CONSUMER LAW NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES, Wei, Dan, Nehf, James, Marques, Claudia Lima (eds) (2020, Springer).
Consumer Friendly Financial Consumer Redress – A Comparative Case Study on Consumer Redress in Large Scale Mis-selling Scandals, 32 Korea Business Law Review 317 (2018) (in Korean).
Gatekeeper Liability of Securities Underwriters- With a Focus on Recent Court Cases, 80 Business Finance & Law, 23 (2017) (in Korean).
