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Yookyung Moon
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Yookyung is an Associate in the Antitrust & Trade Regulation Group in the firm's San Francisco Office.
Areas of Practice
Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Korean Business Practice
Education
- LL.M. in Trade Regulation (Antitrust & Competition Policy Concentration), New York University School of Law, 2006
- LL.M., Georgetown Law Center, 2003
- M.A. Candidate in Jurisprudence, Ewha Womans University Graduate School, 2002, Ewha Graduate Research Fellowship
- LL.B., Ewha Womans University College of Law, 1999, Summa Cum Laude, Dean's List, Honor Scholarship, "International Law" - Korean Government Scholarship
Admissions
- New York
Languages
- Japanese
- Korean
- Mandarin Chinese
Ms. Moon had a Judicial Internship at the Chambers of the Honorable Judge Rafael Diaz of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C. During her internship, she performed extensive research on a wide variety of substantive and procedural issues in criminal matters. She drafted orders and authored notes and memoranda in the areas of criminal law, procedure and evidence. She reviewed motions, briefed cases, and provided oral briefings and presentations in preparation for hearing oral arguments and legal analysis of relevant issues of pending cases. She attended evidentiary hearings, pre-trial proceedings and conferences in Chambers. She observed court proceedings, managed administrative work to facilitate smooth operation of Chambers, and completed legal research training.
Also, Yookyung was a fellow, WTO Trade Law Center, Ewha Womans University College of Law, Seoul, Korea. She researched Japanese trade policy and authorities regarding antidumping and countervailing duties for governmental project (Ministry of Commerce, Industry & Economy) comparing trade policies of China, Japan and Korea in preparation for future regional Free Trade Agreement, and authored summary report. Also, she performed research in relation to governmental/congressional projects involving WTO agricultural subsidies and taxation, tax reform and antitrust issues, and authored notes and reports on same.
In addition, Ms. Moon lectured in English for Anglo-American Law course regarding common law case methodology, U.S. laws and legal system at Ewha. She read U.S. contract law and gave presentations for Corporations course in the graduate program regarding Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and corporate governance. Also, she translated Uniform Commercial Code Article 3 Negotiable Instruments into Korean in preparation for future book publishing on U.S. negotiable instruments on behalf of Professor Meong-Cho Yang, who is current Commissioner of the Korean Fair Trade Commission.
Articles
- While at NYU Law, Ms. Moon wrote "Analysis of the KFTC's Decision on the Hite-Jinro Pre-Merger Review" under the supervision of Professor Daniel L. Rubinfeld, Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice. Also, she served as Research Assistant to Professor Harry First, New York University School of Law, Research Project on United States v. Topco Associates, 406 U.S. 596 (1972) at Library of Congress, Summer 2006. Additionally, Yookyung was a member of International Law Society, New York University School of Law.
- During her studies at Georgetown, Ms. Moon wrote a graduate paper, "Extraterritorial Application of Korean Antitrust Laws: Analysis of the KFTC's Graphite Electrode International Cartel Case" under the supervision of Professor Robert Pitofsky, Former Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. Also, she was a member of Foreign Lawyers Association of Georgetown, Georgetown University Law Center.
- While at Ewha, she was a Research Assistant for the Ewha Law Journal, as well as a Research & Teaching Assistant to Professor Meong-Cho Yang at Ewha Womans University College of Law in Seoul, Korea.