The Globalizing Legal Sector in Korea : Legal Education, Legal Profession, and Jury System.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Jeong-Chul.

Series:

Korean Communities Across the World Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2026.

Summary:

Exposing deep tensions and new inequalities in a rapidly modernizing society, this book reveals how South Korea's legal reforms-shaped by globalization-fused foreign models with local traditions.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Preface

1 Introduction: Contradictions in Korea's Globalizing Legal Sector Jeong-Chul Kim and Joong-Hwan Oh

Part 1 Legal Education in the Era of Global Convergence

2 The "Americanization" of Legal Education in South Korea: Challenges and Opportunities Rosa Kim

3 The Influence of US Legal Education on South Korean Legal Education Jaewan Moon

Part 2 Restructuring the Legal Profession: From State Monopoly to Market Competition

4 Legal Education Reform in Korea: Toward a More Diverse Profession? Michelle Kwon

5 The Introduction of the Law School System and the Structure of the Legal Profession in Korea: Status and Prospects Jae-Hyup Lee

Part 3 Democracy and the Jury: Citizen Participation as Legal Reform

6 The South Korean Style of Jury System as a Kind of Legal Transplant: Comparative Analysis with an Anglo-American Jury John Sanghyun Lee

7 Judge-Jury Interaction in Deliberation: Enhancement or Obstruction of Independent Jury Decision-Making? Jae-Hyup Lee and Jisuk Woo

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 4 Law in Transition: Legal Norms, Justice, and the Contradictions of Global Reform

9 Contract Law and Insolvency Law, Continuity or Discontinuity: On a Recently Proposed Amendment to Korean Insolvency Law Joon-Kyu Choi

10 For the World's 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.

Notes:

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ISBN:

979-82-16-27772-9

979-82-16-27770-5