KIM Dae Hong
金大洪

KIM Dae Hong is Professor in the Department of Global Law, College of Law, Soongsil University. He received his PhD from the College of Law, Seoul National University, Korea. His major is legal history, a field of jurisprudence located at the crossing point of law and history. His academic interest focuses on criminal legal systems in pre-modern times. He is trying to find out what crimes were and how they were punished from a legal historic point of view. While at Harvard-Yenching Institute as a Visiting-Fellow, he will concentrate on case studies on sweeping clauses. It is required today that criminal clauses should be clear and accurate, yet some sweeping clauses are found in pre-modern criminal codes. Case studies about sweeping clauses can be one guide for understanding the legal mind in pre-modern times regarding what should be prohibited and punished by law.