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Title The spirit of Korean law : Korean legal history in context / edited by Marie Seong-Hak Kim
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Brill's Asian law series ; v. 3
Brill's Asian law series ; v. 3.
Contents Introduction: searching for the spirit of Korean law / Marie Seong-Hak Kim -- The Chason law codes in an East Asian perspective / Jerome Bourgon and Pierre-Emmanuel Raux -- Circulation of law and jurisprudence in Korea and China : homicide and the notion of requital for life / Frederic Constant -- Confucian ideology and legal developments in Chason Korea : a methodological essay / Anders Karlsson -- The rise of Korean constitutional thought (1875-1945) : an East Asian perspective / Noriko Kokubun -- Can there be good colonial law? : Korean law and jurisprudence under Japanese rule revisited / Marie Seong-Hak Kim -- Legality or legitimacy: revisiting debates on the Korea-Japan annexation treaties / Samuel Guex -- The making of the constitution and the civil code in postliberation Korea / Joan-Young Moon -- The role of the constitutional court of Korea in the transition from authoritarian to democratic rule / Justine Guichard -- Korea and the reform of the northeast Asian legal complex / Tom Ginsburg
Summary "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"--Unedited summary from book cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Law -- Korea -- History
Law -- Korea (South) -- History
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Law
South Korea.
Legal history.
Constitutional theory.
Korea
Korea (South)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Kim, Marie Seong-Hak
ISBN 9004306013
9789004306011