Jin-Hyun Paik has been Judge of the international Tribunal for the Law of the Sea since 2009. He is currently arbitrator in the “Enrica Lexie” Incident (Italy v. India) arbitration and member of the Special Chamber of the Tribunal in the Dispute concerning Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary between Ghana and Cote d’Ivorie in the Atlantic Ocean. He is also Professor of International Law as Seoul National University in Korea and was Dean of its Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS).
Judge Paik was elected to the Institut de Droit International in 2015. He is also currently President of the Asian Society of International Law (AsianSIL). He received his LL.B. form Seoul National University, LL.M. from Columbia Law School, and Ph.D. in the law from Cambridge University. He has written over 100 articles and several books on international law and politics, law of the sea and Korea’s foreign and security policies, the latest of which includes Regions, Institutions and the Law of the Sea (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2013).