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This is the first book on Korean legal history in English written by a group of leading scholars from around the world. The chapters set forth the developments of Korean law from the Chosŏn to colonial and modern periods through the examination of codified laws, legal theories and practices, and jurisprudence. The contributors’ shared premise is that the evolution of Korean law can be best understood when viewed in terms of its interactions with outside laws. Each chapter integrates literature in Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and Western languages into comprehensive analyses to make up-to-date research available to readers both inside and outside Korea. This volume provides a solid framework from which to approach Korean legal history in the perspective of comparative legal traditions.
Price: $227.00
Pages: 272
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill | Nijhoff
Publication Date:
23 December 2015
ISBN: 9789004290778
Format: Hardcover
The book impressively reflects academic values by examining extensive volumes of literature in Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Western languages. It covers such themes as the impacts of Confucianism as rule, as well as colonial laws and customs codified in civil/penal codes and/or legal theories, practices, and jurisprudence. (...) The book’s contribution is interpretive, allowing us to understand law in Asia as part of global processes. It provides an important lens that helps make sense of distinct developments in particular times and places. Law, in Asia and elsewhere, is part of the contested construction of state power. Yukyong CHOE Asian Law and Society 4,2 (2017).
Marie Seong-Hak Kim (J.D. 1994; Ph.D. 1991) is Professor of History at St. Cloud State University. She is the author of Law and Custom in Korea: Comparative Legal History (2012) and Michel de L’Hôpital: The Vision of a Reformist Chancellor during the French Religious Wars (1997).