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

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0617-6827

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 taught for three years as an assistant professor in the US. He received his GDL from City University and LLM in international commercial law and PhD (2022) in private law from UCL. He spent a year at Sciences Po in Paris, and has been a visiting scholar at McGill University in Canada and Ohio University in the United States. He will be a visiting scholar at National Taiwan University and the University of Tokyo in 2024. He has also undertaken a shorter visit to Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal.

Research interests

Joyman's research focuses on the law of trusts and property, particularly from comparative and historical perspectives. While he was trained as a common lawyer, his research concerns civil laws in East Asia and Francophone sub-Saharan Africa. He also has a keen interest in inclusivity in law.

Joyman is currently writing a monograph entitled The Law of Express Trusts in Japan and Taiwan: Comparisons with Common Law and Quebec (see summary of his doctoral thesis on the BACL blog). In the absence of Equity, trusts in Japan and Taiwan are based on contract and supplemented by a restrictive regulatory architecture. Yet, these trusts go further than other 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. The book challenges the notion that the English express trust is dependent on Equity as a source of law by highlighting that the Japanese and Taiwanese legal systems are able to support effective express trusts with only a limited modification of the underlying rules of property law.

An overview of the implications of the project for English trust law can be found in his chapter contribution to Modern Studies in Property Law, Volume 12.

Joyman’s other interest concerns the foundations of private law in the global South, focusing on land in Francophone sub-Saharan Africa. In Africa, land law is characterised by legal pluralism, owing to the complex interactions between an exogenously imposed “modern” law and customary law during and after formal colonisation. More so than in Europe, there is a wide gap between common law and civil law jurisdictions. Whereas legal scholars writing in English often focus on Commonwealth jurisdictions when considering the effects of colonialism, and on horizontal linkages within Europe when working from comparative private law, his work stresses the importance of transcending such a divide.

A description of his research on land law in Francophone Africa can be found on the UofG School of Law Blog.

Publications

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Jump to: 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2019 | 2017 | 2016 | 2014 | 2011 | 2009
Number of items: 19.

2023

Lee, J. (2023) Land law in Francophone Africa. [Website]

Lee, J. (2023) The essential similarity of express trusts in England, Japan and Quebec. In: Mrockova, N., Nair, A. and Rostill, L. (eds.) Modern Studies in Property Law, Volume 12. Series: Modern studies in property law. Hart Publishing. ISBN 9781509963676

2022

Lee, J. (2022) Singapore Trusts Law by Christopher Hare and Vincent Ooi. Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, 2022(2), pp. 485-500. [Book Review]

Lee, J. (2022) Structure and rulemaking in English, Japanese and Quebec trusts. [Website]

Lee, J. (2022) Asia-Pacific Trusts Law, Volume 1: Theory and Practice in Context. Law Quarterly Review, 138(Jul), pp. 514-517. [Book Review]

Lee, J. (2022) Inge Van Hulle, Britain and International Law in West Africa. American Journal of Legal History, 62(2), pp. 208-211. (doi: 10.1093/ajlh/njac012)[Book Review]

Lee, J. (2022) Secured Transactions Law in Asia: Principles, Perspectives and Reform, edited by Louise Gullifer and Dora Neo, (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2021), xlix + 502 pp., hardback, £120.00, ISBN: 978-1-509-92649-7. Law Quarterly Review, 138(Jan), pp. 156-159. [Book Review]

2021

Lee, J. (2021) Settlor’s retention of powers in civil law trusts. Trust Law International, 35(2), pp. 90-111.

Lee, J. (2021) The nature of the beneficiary’s interest in English, Japanese and Quebec trusts. European Review of Private Law, 29(4), pp. 611-632.

Lee, J. (2021) The irreducible core of trustee duties in East Asian trusts. Trusts and Trustees, 27(4), pp. 302-310. (doi: 10.1093/tandt/ttab013)

2019

Lee, J. (2019) Closest model, rival and fateful enemy. In: Baumler, A. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Revolutionary China. Series: Routledge handbooks. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 243-257. ISBN 9781138647558 (doi: 10.4324/9781315626727-17)

Lee, J. (2019) Economics. In: Chiang, H. (ed.) The Making of the Human Sciences in China: Historical and Conceptual Foundations. Series: China studies (40). Brill: Leiden ; Boston, pp. 267-282. ISBN 9789004397613 (doi: 10.1163/9789004397620_015)

2017

Lee, J. (2017) China–Japan Relations after World War Two: Empire, Industry and War, 1949–1971 Amy King Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016 xv + 261 pp. £64.99; $99.00 ISBN 978-1-107-13164-4. China Quarterly, 229, pp. 248-250. (doi: 10.1017/s0305741017000418)[Book Review]

Lee, J. (2017) Brasó Broggi, Carles, Trades and technology networks in the Chinese textile industry: opening up before the reform (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xiv+221. 3 figs. 19 tabs. ISBN 9781137494047 Hbk. £75). Economic History Review, 70(1), pp. 363-364. (doi: 10.1111/ehr.12523)[Book Review]

2016

Lee, J. (2016) Shellen Xiao Wu. Empires of Coal: Fueling China’s Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860–1920. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2015. xii +266 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-9284-4, $45.00 (cloth). Enterprise and Society, 17(1), pp. 192-195. (doi: 10.1017/eso.2015.57)[Book Review]

2014

Lee, J. (2014) Where imperialism could not reach: Chinese industrial policy and Japan, 1900–1940. Enterprise and Society, 15(4), pp. 655-671. (doi: 10.1017/s1467222700016062)

2011

Lee, J. (2011) Senkaku/Diaoyu: islands of conflict. History Today, 61(5),

2009

Lee, J. (2009) Lever of empire: the international gold standard and the crisis of liberalism in pre-war Japan. By Mark Metzler. Berkeley, CA; London: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xxiv+370. ISBN 0-520-24420-6. £32.50. Historical Journal, 52(4), pp. 1122-1124. (doi: 10.1017/s0018246x09990240)[Book Review]

Lee, J. (2009) From foot soldier to finance minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan's Keynes - By Richard J. Smethurst. Economic History Review, 62(4), pp. 1040-1041. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2009.00501_29.x)[Book Review]

This list was generated on Sun Dec 10 12:46:44 2023 GMT.
Number of items: 19.

Articles

Lee, J. (2021) Settlor’s retention of powers in civil law trusts. Trust Law International, 35(2), pp. 90-111.

Lee, J. (2021) The nature of the beneficiary’s interest in English, Japanese and Quebec trusts. European Review of Private Law, 29(4), pp. 611-632.

Lee, J. (2021) The irreducible core of trustee duties in East Asian trusts. Trusts and Trustees, 27(4), pp. 302-310. (doi: 10.1093/tandt/ttab013)

Lee, J. (2014) Where imperialism could not reach: Chinese industrial policy and Japan, 1900–1940. Enterprise and Society, 15(4), pp. 655-671. (doi: 10.1017/s1467222700016062)

Lee, J. (2011) Senkaku/Diaoyu: islands of conflict. History Today, 61(5),

Book Sections

Lee, J. (2023) The essential similarity of express trusts in England, Japan and Quebec. In: Mrockova, N., Nair, A. and Rostill, L. (eds.) Modern Studies in Property Law, Volume 12. Series: Modern studies in property law. Hart Publishing. ISBN 9781509963676

Lee, J. (2019) Closest model, rival and fateful enemy. In: Baumler, A. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Revolutionary China. Series: Routledge handbooks. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 243-257. ISBN 9781138647558 (doi: 10.4324/9781315626727-17)

Lee, J. (2019) Economics. In: Chiang, H. (ed.) The Making of the Human Sciences in China: Historical and Conceptual Foundations. Series: China studies (40). Brill: Leiden ; Boston, pp. 267-282. ISBN 9789004397613 (doi: 10.1163/9789004397620_015)

Book Reviews

Lee, J. (2022) Singapore Trusts Law by Christopher Hare and Vincent Ooi. Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, 2022(2), pp. 485-500. [Book Review]

Lee, J. (2022) Asia-Pacific Trusts Law, Volume 1: Theory and Practice in Context. Law Quarterly Review, 138(Jul), pp. 514-517. [Book Review]

Lee, J. (2022) Inge Van Hulle, Britain and International Law in West Africa. American Journal of Legal History, 62(2), pp. 208-211. (doi: 10.1093/ajlh/njac012)[Book Review]

Lee, J. (2022) Secured Transactions Law in Asia: Principles, Perspectives and Reform, edited by Louise Gullifer and Dora Neo, (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2021), xlix + 502 pp., hardback, £120.00, ISBN: 978-1-509-92649-7. Law Quarterly Review, 138(Jan), pp. 156-159. [Book Review]

Lee, J. (2017) China–Japan Relations after World War Two: Empire, Industry and War, 1949–1971 Amy King Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016 xv + 261 pp. £64.99; $99.00 ISBN 978-1-107-13164-4. China Quarterly, 229, pp. 248-250. (doi: 10.1017/s0305741017000418)[Book Review]

Lee, J. (2017) Brasó Broggi, Carles, Trades and technology networks in the Chinese textile industry: opening up before the reform (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xiv+221. 3 figs. 19 tabs. ISBN 9781137494047 Hbk. £75). Economic History Review, 70(1), pp. 363-364. (doi: 10.1111/ehr.12523)[Book Review]

Lee, J. (2016) Shellen Xiao Wu. Empires of Coal: Fueling China’s Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860–1920. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2015. xii +266 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-9284-4, $45.00 (cloth). Enterprise and Society, 17(1), pp. 192-195. (doi: 10.1017/eso.2015.57)[Book Review]

Lee, J. (2009) Lever of empire: the international gold standard and the crisis of liberalism in pre-war Japan. By Mark Metzler. Berkeley, CA; London: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xxiv+370. ISBN 0-520-24420-6. £32.50. Historical Journal, 52(4), pp. 1122-1124. (doi: 10.1017/s0018246x09990240)[Book Review]

Lee, J. (2009) From foot soldier to finance minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan's Keynes - By Richard J. Smethurst. Economic History Review, 62(4), pp. 1040-1041. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2009.00501_29.x)[Book Review]

Website

Lee, J. (2023) Land law in Francophone Africa. [Website]

Lee, J. (2022) Structure and rulemaking in English, Japanese and Quebec trusts. [Website]

This list was generated on Sun Dec 10 12:46:44 2023 GMT.

Grants

Taiwan Fellowship (to support three months of research at National Taiwan University)

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)

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, 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 (trust law)

Honours: Advanced Property & Trusts (2021-22), Comparative Private Law (2021-23), Commercial Law (Honours)

Joyman is interested in practices aimed at increasing inclusivity in core private law teaching. In his courses, he includes cases from the Asia-Pacific region as a way of showcasing the diversity of developments in common law.