Law

JUNG Geung-Sik is Associate Professor, College of Law at Seoul National University, South Korea. His project at the Harvard-Yenching Institute examined the modes of acceptance and transformation of the Zhu Hsi's Family Ritual(朱子家禮) in the traditional society of Korea, Japan and China from comparative perspectives. He will think over universality as well as particularity of the Li (禮). And he will try to build a theory about the acceptance and the changes in norms and laws from the East Asian viewpoints.

Prof. Zhang Qi is a law professor at Peking University Law School and the executive director of the Institute of Comparative Law and Sociology of Law. He has taught and researched on Jurisprudence / philosophy of law, comparative law, the Chinese judicial system, and Western legal philosophy. He has been involved in Chinese judicial reform for many years and is now studying the feasibility of adapting the methods of US judicial precedent system and civil law country’s judicial systems into the Chinese guiding case system.

Professor Yoshida is a Professor of Law at Hokkaido University. He specializes in civil law with an emphasis on the critical theories of legal interpretation and has done considerable work on property law, contract law, tort law, health law and comparative legal theory. He received both his J.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. 

Professor Huon is a lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Cantho University. He received his B.A. in International Law from Ho Chi Minh City University of Law. He is conducting a study of the Vietnamese government’s human rights policies for ethnic minority children. He also has a keen interest in the rights of minority children in the United States.

Professor Ke is an Associate Professor of Environmental Law in the School of Law, Wuhan University. He received his LL.M. from the same university. He has conducted broad research on the environmental law of Europe and Australia.

Nishino Junya is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law and Politics, Keio University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Yonsei University. His research focuses on contemporary Korean politics, international relations of East Asia and Japan-Korea relations. Previously he served as a Special Analyst on Korean Affairs in the Intelligence and Analysis Service of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2006-2007), and was a Special Assistant on Korean Politics at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul (2002-2004).