Youngtae Han

I am a first-year PhD researcher at Warwick Law School, having previously completed an LLM in International Commercial Law at the University of Warwick and an MEcon in International Trade at Jeonbuk National University. I completed my undergraduate degree (BBA) with a double major in Business Accounting and International Trading at Jeonbuk National University, receiving the Excellent Graduate Prize for outstanding academic performance in my cohort.

My research examines how international commercial law, particularly the CISG, can address legal uncertainties in cross-border data transactions and reconcile contractual frameworks with data protection regulations in the digital economy. This research examines how several doctrinal and regulatory factors shape the legal treatment of data contracts, including: a) the definition of data, b) the assessment of data as 'goods', c) limitation of the CISG in relation to data contracts, d) functional conflicts between data protection law and contract law, e) harmonisation through 'justice-based private law', and f) complementary use of the UNCITRAL Rules and ALI/ELI Principles.