A deep look at how global influences reshaped South Koreas legal systemblending foreign models with local traditions and sparking new inequalities. Examining how globalization has reshaped South Koreas legal institutions while deepening old hierarchies, the contributors show that reforms in legal education, the legal profession, and the jury system were not simple adoptions of foreign models but complex hybridizations that combined global ideals with entrenched local practices. By analyzing the Americanization of law schools, restructuring of the legal profession, and experiments with citizen participation in trials, the book exposes the tensions inherent in legal reform within a rapidly globalizing society. South Koreas experience illustrates how efforts to modernize often collide with cultural norms, state agendas, and structural inequalities, producing uneven and occasionally conflicting outcomes. This volume offers fresh insights for scholars of law and society, comparative legal studies, and East Asian politics, as well as for policymakers navigating the challenges of global reform.
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In an era of rapid institutional change, this book reveals the tensions and innovations driving Koreas legal transformation. It offers a penetrating account of how legal institutions evolve under pressure from globalization and domestic reform. The chapters examine shifts in legal education, the restructuring of the profession, the evolution of lay participation in criminal trials, and emerging debates in areas such as insolvency and international adoption. This is an essential read for scholars and policymakers interested in Korean legal studies, comparative law, and legal sociology. * Patricia Goedde, Professor at Sungkyunkwan University Law School, KOR *
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Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction: Contradictions in Koreas Globalizing Legal Sector
Jeong-Chul Kim and Joong-Hwan Oh
Part ?: Legal Education in the Era of Global Convergence
Chapter 2: The Americanization of Legal Education in South Korea:
Challenges and Opportunities Rosa Kim
Chapter 3: The Influence of U.S. Legal Education on South Korean Legal
Education Jaewan Moon
Part ?: Restructuring the Legal Profession: From State Monopoly to Market
Competition
Chapter 4: Legal Education Reform in Korea: Towards a More Diverse
Profession? Michelle Kwon
Chapter 5: The Introduction of the Law School System and the Structure of the
Legal Profession in Korea: Status and Prospects Jae-Hyup Lee
Part ?: Democracy, and the Jury: Citizen Participation as Legal Reform
Chapter 6: The South-Korean Style of Jury System as a Kind of Legal
Transplant: Comparative Analysis with an Anglo-American Jury John Sanghyun
Lee
Chapter 7: Judge-Jury Interaction in Deliberation: Enhancement or Obstruction
of Independent Jury Decision-Making? Jae-Hyup Lee and Jisuk Woo
Chapter 8: Diversity, Dialogue, and Deliberation: An Empirical Investigation
of Age, Gender, and Meaningful Decision-Making in Korean Juries Jisuk Woo and
Justin D. Levinson
Part ?: Law in Transition: Legal Norms, Justice, and the Contradictions of
Global Reform
Chapter 9: Contract Law and Insolvency Law, Continuity or Discontinuity: On A
Recently Proposed Amendment to Korean Insolvency Law Joon-Kyu Choi
Chapter 10: For The Worlds More Full of Weeping: Why South Korea Should
Retroactively Abolish Civil and Criminal Statutes of Limitation Applicable to
Illegal International Adoptions Daniel A. Edelson
Index
About the Contributors
Jeong-Chul Kim is an independent researcher and works as a civil servant at the Donggu Office in Gwangju, KOR. Joong-Hwan Oh is a Professor of Sociology at Hunter College of The City University of New York, USA.
