Nari Lee

Nari Lee is the professor intellectual property at Hanken School of Economics and the deputy director of the IPR University center. She has joined Hanken faculty in 2012. She has studied law at Ewha Womans University in Korea and at Kyushu University, Japan (LL.M), and holds a Ph.D from University of Eastern Finland and Doctor of Laws (LL.D) degree from Kyushu University, Japan. Since 1996, she has researched and taught in the area of intellectual property and international trade law in universities in Europe, Asia and USA. Her research experience includes a visiting associate professor at Hokkaido University(2007-2011), a senior research fellow (2008-2010) and affiliated research fellow (2010-2012) Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition in Munich, Germany, Research Visitor at University of Cambridge (2016, 2019), Senior Global Hauser Fellow at New York University (NYU) Law School (2017), a Designated Professor, at the Center for Asian Legal Exchange at Nagoya University, Japan (2019). In 2025 Spring, she has been a visiting faculty at Waseda University's Research Center for the Legal System of Intellectual Property (RCLIP), Tokyo, Japan.