Cover -- Legal Reform in Korea -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: the politics of legal reform in Korea -- 2 The Korean Constitutional Court, judicial activism, and social change -- 3 The paralysis of legal education in Korea -- 4 The prosecution of corruption in South Korea: achievements, problems, and prospects -- 5 Korean criminal law and democratization -- 6 The emergence of formalized intermediate norms in Korea: the case of sexual harassment -- 7 A look at Korean corporate codes of conduct -- 8 Epistemological conflicts and institutional impediments: the rocky road to corporate bankruptcy reforms in Korea -- 9 Korean labor law reform: evaluation and future prospects -- 10 Controlling foreign migrant workers in Korea -- 11 The unfulfilled promise of Korean telecommunications reform -- 12 Negotiating values and law: environmental dispute resolution in Korea -- Bibliography -- Index.

Law in Korea has historically been viewed as merely a tool of authoritarian rule, but since the transition to democracy in 1987 it has served a more important and visible role as a force for social change. With contributions from leading US and Korean scholars, Legal Reform in Korea explores this response to domestic and international pressures, applying a socio-legal perspective to both legal practices and the legal institutions themselves, which have become a major political issue throughout the developing world. An invaluable resource for students of Asian law and Korean studies.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.