You Kyung Huh is a Post-Doctoral Global Fellow affiliated with the Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement.

Her project at NYU Law examines the effect of political influence behind consumer protection-related enforcement actions that independent regulatory agencies conduct. Her research explores the implications of the allocation of multiple financial regulatory goals to government agencies, and the interplay between regulatory architecture and political control of the bureaucracy.

You Kyung received her S.J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, 2020, and LL.M.’s from Harvard Law School (concentration in International Finance), 2013, and Georgetown University Law Center, 2014.

You Kyung was a director of Consumers Korea, an advocacy group that lobbied lawmakers and regulators for consumer protection in financial markets in the areas of consumer redress, Fintech, personal data protection, and artificial intelligence. She was also a Council Member of Consumers International, where she provided consumer advocacy strategies at the international level. She was admitted to the Korean Bar in 2006 and worked as an attorney at the Korean Financial Supervisory Service.