"Contributors" [2013] ELECD 153; in Yang, Hyunah (ed), "Law and Society in Korea" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) vii

Book Title: Law and Society in Korea

Editor(s): Yang, Hyunah

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848443389

Section Title: Contributors

Number of pages: 4

Extract:

Contributors
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, University of Oxford Centre for
Socio-Legal Studies, UK (1998); a Commissioner at the National Human
Rights Commission of Korea (2007­2011); Member of Police Reform
Committee under the National Police Agency (2003­2005) ...