Research Team

Professor Sangsoo Lee is a faculty member at Sogang University Law School, where he teaches courses in legal ethics, sociology of law, and Business and Human Rights. He previously served as Director of the Sogang Institute of Law (2018–2019) and as President of the Korean Association of Sociology of Law (2018–2019).

He earned his bachelor’s degree in law at Seoul National University, where he also completed his master’s and doctoral degrees. He has also served as a visiting professor at the National Law School of India University in Bangalore (2003–2004) and at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University in France (2015–2016).

Professor Lee has carried out numerous government-funded research projects and published more than 20 papers on business and human rights. His work covers topics such as the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, human rights violations in supply chains, corporate legal liability for human rights abuses, and various case studies. He also translated Just Business (John Ruggie, 2013) into Korean and authored the book Human Rights Management (Taehaksa, 2022).

He has long collaborated closely with the Korean government and NGOs on issues related to business and human rights. He currently serves as an advisor to institutions including the National Human Rights Commission of Korea and the Ministry of Justice on matters concerning business and human rights.