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Yang, Hyunah Hyunah Yang is a Professor of Law at Seoul National University School of Law where she has taught Feminist Jurisprudence and Sociology of Law. She received a PhD from the New School for Social Research. Professor Yang’s main fields of research are feminist legal studies, postcolonialism and family law in Korea. The victim testimony research with emphasis on the Japanese Military Sexual Slavery survivors was another important area. She served as a President at the Korean Associ- ation of Gender and Law, and currently is a Commissioner at the National Human Rights Commission. Among her publications are ‘A Journey of Family Law Reform in Korea: Tradition, Equality, and Social Change’ (Journal of Korean Law, 2009); ‘Finding “Map of Memory”: Testimonies of Japanese Sexual Slavery Survivors’ (Positions, 2008); and ‘For the Communication of Legal Studies and Sociological Thinking’ (Seoul Law Journal, 2006). Cho, Kuk Kuk Cho is a Professor of Law at Seoul National University School of Law. He received an LLB in 1986 and an LLM in 1989 from Seoul National University College of Law; an LLM in 1995 and a JSD in 1997 from the University of California Berkeley School of Law. He was a Visiting Scholar, University of Leeds Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, UK (1998); a Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, UK (1998); a Commissioner at the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (2007–2011); Member of Police Reform Committee under the National Police Agency (2003–2005) among others. Professor Cho’s academic interests include human rights law, constitu- tional law, and criminal law and procedure. Choi, Dai-kwon Dai-kwon Choi is a Professor Emeritus at Seoul National University and a Distinguished Professor at Handong International Law School. He teaches constitutional law and the sociology of law at both universities. He studied law at the Seoul National University College of Law and

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received a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. His publications include Sociology of Law (1983); Law and Society (1992); and Constitutional Law (2001). He was Head of the Legal Education Reform Committee of the Presidential Advisory Com- mission for a New Education Community, and was also a member of the Presidential Advisory Commission for Judicial Reform. Goedde, Patricia Patricia Goedde is an Assistant Professor at Sungkyunkwan University School of Law. She received a JD and a PhD from the University of Washington School of Law. Professor Goedde’s academic interests include public interest lawyering, human rights advocacy, refugee law and North Korean studies. Among her publications are ‘Legal Mobiliza- tion for Human Rights in North Korea: Furthering Discourse or Dis- cord?’ (Human Rights Quarterly, 2010) and ‘Lawyers for Democracy (minbyun) and its Legal Mobilization Processes Since 1988’ (South Korean Social Movements: From Democracy to Civil Society, 2011). Hong, Sung Soo Sung Soo Hong is a Professor of Law at Sookmyung Women’s Univer- sity College of Law. He received an LLB and LLM from Korea University and a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and was a visiting scholar at the International Institute for Sociology of Law in Spain and the University of Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies in the UK. Sung Soo Hong’s academic interests include philosophy of law, sociology of law, human rights, and regulation and he has written many articles on these areas. Kim, Dohyun Dohyun Kim is an Associate Professor at College of Law and teaches sociology of law and history of law. He received a PhD from Seoul National University. Dohyun Kim’s academic interests include sociology of the legal profession and sociology of dispute processing. Among his publications are ‘Civil Litigations in Korea: Trends and Analysis’ (Law and Society, 2009); ‘Career Patterns of the Korean Legal Profession’ (co-author, Judicial System Transformation in the Globalizing World: Korea and Japan, 2007); and ‘Death Penalty Cases and Social Scientific Evidence’ (Law and Society, 2011). Kim, Jeong-Oh Jeong-Oh Kim is a Professor of Law at Yonsei University and is currently President of the Korean Society for the Sociology of Law. He received an

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SJD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School. Among his publications are Liberal Virtues: Dialogue with Dworkin (co-author, 2012); ‘The Evolution of the Rule of Law in Korea’ (Yonsei Law Journal, 2010); ‘Korean TV Legal Texts and People’s Attitude of Reception’ (Law and Society, 2010); Contemporary Social Thought and Law: A Fate of Liberal Legal System (2007); Korean Legal Culture: Understanding, Structure and Change (2006); and ‘The Changing Landscape of Civil Litigation’ (Recent Transformations in Korean Law and Society, 2000). Lee, Chulwoo Chulwoo Lee is a Professor of Law at Yonsei University Law School. He received a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science; held full-time faculty positions at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and Sungkyunkwan University; and taught at the Univer- sity of Washington School of Law as Garvey Schubert Barer Visiting Professor of Asian Law. Chulwoo Lee’s academic interests include law and social theory, social history of law and citizenship studies. Among his publications are ‘Citizenship, Nationality, and Legal Status’ (Encyclo- pedia of Global Human Migration, 2013); ‘How Can You Say You’re Korean?’ (Citizenship Studies, 2012); and ‘Modernity, Legality and Power in Korea Under Japanese Rule’ (Colonial Modernity in Korea, 1999). Lee, Ilhyung Ilhyung Lee is Edward W. Hinton Professor of Law and Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution, at the University of Missouri, in Columbia, Missouri, USA. He received a JD from Boston College Law School; was a law clerk to the Honorable Joseph F. Weis, Jr, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Professor Lee specialises in the fields of law and society in Korea, international dispute resolution and sports law. He is included in the roster of neutrals for the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board, USA Track and Field, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, the University of Missouri Campus Media- tion Service, and the World Intellectual Property Organization, among others. Lee, Kuk-Woon Kuk-Woon Lee is a Professor of Law at Handong University School of Law. He received an LLB, an LLM and a PhD from Seoul National University College of Law; served as a law-clerk in Judicial Policy Office of the Supreme Court of Korea; was a visiting researcher, American Bar

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Foundation and a visiting scholar, Pepperdine University School of Law. Kuk-Woon Lee started teaching at Handong University in 1999, and has become one of the leading scholars in the fields of legal education reform and judicial reform in Korea. His main fields of research include constitutional theory, constitutional politics, and lawyer’s politics in Korea. Among his recent publications are Constitution (2010) and The Birth of Korean Lawyers: A Search for the Origins of Judicial Distrust (2012). Yi, Sangdon Sangdon Yi is a Professor at Korea University School of Law and the President of the Legal Research Institute of Korea University. He received an LLB and an LLM at Korea University and a Dr.jur. from Frankfurt University in Germany. Sangdon Yi’s academic interests include jurisprudence, criminal law, medical law and business and criminal law. Among his recent publications are Business and Criminal Law (2011); Criminal Law Issues in Securities Regulation (2011); Fair Trade and Criminal Law (2010); Korean Cinema, Law and Psychoanaly- sis (co-author, 2010); Criminal Law in Law School (2010); Legal Philosophy in Law School (2nd ed., 2010); Introduction to Law (2009); Medical Law (co-author, 2009); Tax and Criminal Law (2009).

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