Hub welcomes new Cyber Security Law & Policy Fellow

The arrival of Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre funded fellow, Dr. Heejin Kim, will help us understand how Australia’s cyber security settings are aligned with international law and global policy-making.    

Under the themes of cyber diplomacy and international law as well as cyber security and trade, Heejin will work with the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) and will collaborate with other Hub researchers and Professor Sanjay Jha's lab at the UNSW Computer Science and Engineering. 

Heejin has researched and published widely on public international law, information technology law and the regulation of digital economy in Asia-Pacific. Prior to joining the Hub, she was ASEAN Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore. She has worked for various institutions including the Office of the Presidency at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Constitutional Court of Korea, and the National Human Rights Commission of Korea. She was also involved with Yale Law School's Khmer Rouge Trial Project, co-authoring bench briefs for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Chambers of Cambodia. 

Heejin holds LLM and JSD degrees from Yale Law School where she was an editor of the Yale Journal of International law and and participated in many other student-led initiatives. For her first law degree, she studied at Sookmyung Women's University in Seoul. She is a recipient of multiple academic awards including the Korean Government Scholarship for Overseas Doctoral Studies from the National Institute for International Education of Korea, the Howard M. Holtzmann Fellowship in International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution awarded by Yale Law School, and Kathleen Fitzpatrick Visiting Fellowship in Laureate Program in International Law, Melbourne Law School.

She currently serves as an Associate Editor to the Asian Journal of International Law.