Courses

Course Offering

International White Collar Crime (June 17, 2025-June 28, 2025)

In this course, we will study criminal laws that regulate cross-border or overseas conduct especially those that take the form of business transactions, such as bribery, export controls, arms and drug trafficking, money laundering, securities fraud, and antitrust violations; the principles of jurisdiction that may be used to prescribe, adjudicate and enforce these crimes; enforcement mechanisms of these crimes (including transnational prosecutions); and the logistical and procedural challenges involved in the prosecution of these crimes.  Criminal law is not a prerequisite.  (Note for Fordham evening students: This course may be taken concurrently with Professor Lee’s Criminal Law class in the Summer Term.)

Comparative Criminal Law and Dispute Resolution (June 29, 2005-July 4, 2025)

How should we think about the future of the criminal justice system in the United States?  This class approaches this question by examining the role of criminal law as means of resolving disputes in Korea, but with references to other countries’ legal systems, including that of Germany, Japan, and France.  The class will focus in particular on the role of various actors in the criminal justice system: complainants, defendants, prosecutors, defense lawyers, and judges and jurors.  The final exam will be a take-home essay question.  Criminal law is not a prerequisite.  (Note for Fordham evening students: This course may be taken concurrently with Professor Lee’s Criminal Law class in the Summer Term.)

Faculty

Professor Youngjae Lee

Professor Youngjae Lee is the Director of the Fordham-Sungkyunkwan Summer Institute in International Law and Professor of Law at Fordham Law School.  His research focuses on criminal law and criminal procedure. As a Professor of Law at Fordham and a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, University of Chicago Law School, and UCLA School of Law, he has taught criminal law, international criminal law, criminal procedure, and torts.  He has also held visiting positions at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome and European University Institute in Florence.  He joined the Fordham faculty in fall 2005 from NYU School of Law, where he was an Alexander Fellow.  He is a 1995 graduate of Swarthmore College and a 1999 graduate of Harvard Law School.