Dr Joyman Lee
- Lecturer (School of Law)
email:
Joyman.Lee@glasgow.ac.uk
School of Law, Room 530, Stair Building, 5-9 The Square, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ
Biography
Raised in London, Joyman holds a BA (starred double first) in history from Cambridge and a PhD in history from Yale University (2013). He completed his law degrees in England (GDL, City; LLM and PhD [2022], UCL). He has been/is a visiting scholar at Sciences Po Paris, McGill University (Canada), National Taiwan University and the University of Tokyo.
Research interests
Joyman's interests focus on private law, specifically trusts and property. He is interested in the civil law tradition in Northeast Asia (Japan and Taiwan) and land law in sub-Saharan Africa.
Joyman is writing a monograph entitled The Law of Express Trusts in Japan and Taiwan: Comparisons with Common Law and Quebec, on the basis of his doctoral thesis at UCL. As he argues in a chapter contribution in Modern Studies in Property Law, Volume 12, these trusts go further than European civil law trusts by providing elaborate mechanisms for express trusts to perform their role as agreement-based institutions designed to deliver flexibility to property owners.
Another of Joyman’s interests concerns private law in Africa, with an initial focus on land in Senegambia/Senegal.
Grants
Taiwan Fellowship, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
U of G: John Robertson Bequest
Travel grants to attend the Asian Law Junior Faculty Workshop at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies, National University of Singapore, and the Global Scholars Academy at the Institute for Global Law & Policy, Harvard Law School
UCL: Peter Birks Scholarship in Private Law (£54,000 + tuition fees), Master of the Rolls Scholarship for the top applicant from a Commonwealth country (LLM), Pump Court Tax Chambers Prize for the best results in international & commercial trusts law (LLM)
Inner Temple: Major Scholarship (GDL)
History: Yale Graduate School Fellowship & Overbrook History Fellowship, Japan Foundation, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Richard U Light Fellowship (Yale), Allan Prize for History (Clare College, Cambridge)
Kennedy Scholarship, United Kingdom (declined)
Supervision
Jean Tzu-Yin Chou (Economic & Social History), “Ethnic politics, local mobility, and medical management in Singapore under British Colonisation and Japanese Occupation"
- Chou, Jean Tzu-Yin
Local mobility, medical management, and the founding of hospitals by the Chinese communities in the Straits-Settlements-era Singapore, circa. 1826-1942
Teaching
Common Law LLB: Equity & Trusts (convenor), Land Law
Scots Law LLB: Property Law (trusts)