Dr Joyman Lee

  • Lecturer in Common Law (School of Law)

email: Joyman.Lee@glasgow.ac.uk

School of Law, Room 432, Stair Building, 5-9 The Square, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ

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

Biography

Joyman joined the Law School in August 2021. His research focuses on comparative and global (Asian & African) trusts, property and legal history.

Joyman plans to develop his doctoral thesis “Structure and Rulemaking in English, Japanese and Quebec Trusts” (UCL 2022) into a monograph. Like in Scotland, trusts in Japan are based on contracts but go further in providing mechanisms for express trusts to perform their role as agreement-based institutions designed to deliver flexibility to property owners. Drawing on the idea of “oxymoronic comparative law”, he argues for the reform of Japanese trust law, where private trusts are becoming more important in light of the ageing society. He contends that civil law systems interested in making an effective use of trusts end up adopting a structure which is similar to English express trusts.

As a former historian, Joyman is also interested in interdisciplinary approaches to law, particularly concerning legal developments in the global South. He is embarking on a project on the legal history of property and development in West Africa, focusing initially on Senegal.

Raised in London, Joyman holds a BA 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 also spent a year at Sciences Po in Paris, and has been a visiting scholar at McGill University.

Research interests

Trusts, Property, Comparative Private Law, Legal History, Japanese Law, African Law

Publications

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Jump to: 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2019 | 2017 | 2016 | 2014 | 2011 | 2009
Number of items: 18.

2023

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. Hart Publishing. ISBN 9781509963669 (In Press)

2022

Lee, J. (2022) Singapore Trusts Law by Christopher Hare and Vincent Ooi. Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, [Book Review] (Early Online Publication)

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 Sat Mar 25 17:25:07 2023 GMT.
Number of items: 18.

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. Hart Publishing. ISBN 9781509963669 (In Press)

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, [Book Review] (Early Online Publication)

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

This list was generated on Sat Mar 25 17:25:07 2023 GMT.

Grants

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, “Ethnic politics, local mobility, and medical management in Singapore under British Colonisation and Japanese Occupation"

Teaching

Common law: Equity & Trusts (convenor), Land Law

Scots law: Property (trusts)

Honours courses: Comparative Private Law, Global Trusts & Property

Additional information

As a comparative lawyer/legal historian, Joyman sees languages as a core part of legal research, including in contexts where they do not readily appear in "formal" law. In addition to English, he is proficient in Chinese (Mandarin), Cantonese, Japanese and French. As a part of his work on Senegal, he plans to self-study Wolof.