E Jin Lee is an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  He is a member of the firm’s Litigation and International Arbitration Practice Groups.

Mr. Lee has extensive experience in international commercial and investor-state arbitration.  He has represented clients in international arbitrations spanning a range of sectors, including energy, natural resources, technology, intellectual property, taxation, and apparel.  Mr. Lee has served as counsel in international arbitrations administered under various institutional rules, including those of the American Arbitration Association (AAA), International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) and International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).  He also has extensive experience in ad hoc arbitration conducted under the Arbitration Rules of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).

Mr. Lee maintains an active pro bono practice.  He recently assisted REDRESS, a human rights organization dedicated to assisting victims of torture, with a submission before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Mr. Lee clerked at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague, where he supported arbitral tribunals in major investor-state, inter-state, and international commercial arbitrations.  He was a member of the PCA delegation that established the PCA’s Singapore office.  Mr. Lee previously worked in the Washington, D.C. office of a leading international arbitration boutique.

Mr. Lee earned his Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School, where he graduated as a James Kent Scholar, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and a recipient of the Parker School Certificate for Achievement in International and Comparative Law.  At Columbia, Mr. Lee was a research assistant to Professor George A. Bermann (Chief Reporter) on the Restatement of the U.S. Law of International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration.  He also served on Editorial Board of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law.  Additionally, Mr. Lee has a degree in English law from King’s College London, where he graduated with First-Class Honours.

Mr. Lee’s scholarship on the law and practice of international arbitration has been published in the American Review of International Arbitration and other leading outlets.

Mr. Lee is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the District of Columbia.

Publications

• Author, Looking Past “Pro-Arbitration”, in Liber Amicorum George A. Bermann (forthcoming 2021)
• Author, The US Supreme Court’s decision in Henry Schein v Archer & White: an affirmation of first principles and of the need for clarity over delegated gateway issues, Practical Law Arbitration Blog January 24, 2019, Practical Law Arbitration Blog
• Author, To Bind or Not to Bind? Challenging Assumptions About Non-Signatory Cases and Choice-of-Law in International Arbitration, 27 Am. Rev. Int’l Arb. 359, 2016
• Author, Whose Law Is It Anyway? The Contact Interpretation Problem in U.S. Arbitration Jurisprudence, 27 Am. Rev. Int’l Arb. 495, 2016

Speaking Engagements

• Panelist, Recent Regional Developments in Energy Arbitration, ITA-IEL-ICC Conference on International Energy Arbitration, January 22, 2021
• Moderator, Book Launch: General Principles of Law and International Due Process, October 16, 2018