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Yang, Hyunah. "Public Interest Lawyering in South Korea: A Large Vehicle for Social Change" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Law and Society Association, TBA, Berlin, Germany, Jul 25, 2007 <Not Available>. 2013-05-08 <http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p177464_index.html>

Yang, H. , 2007-07-25 "Public Interest Lawyering in South Korea: A Large Vehicle for Social Change" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Law and Society Association, TBA, Berlin, Germany <Not Available>. 2013-05-08 from http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p177464_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: 1.Introduction * Democratization and growth of civil society in South Korea during 1980-90 * Public Interest Lawyering (PIL) in South Korea as initiative or symptom of it. * What would be the dilemmas and accomplishment of the PIL in this social situation? 2. Definition of Public Interest Lawyering * The lawyering to represent under-represented interests of the social good * Representing rights of minority, or ‘dispersed interests’ of the citizens * The public interests need to be legally and socially named and tailored * Its impacts not limited to the litigations but extend legislation, research, and social movements 3. Critical Networks for Public Interest Lawyer * “MINBYUN- Lawyers for a Democratic Society” * “People’s Democracy for Participatory Solidarity” * “Korean Public Interest Lawyers Group, Gong-Gam” 4. Important Cases of Public Interest Litigation * Case of Damages due to Flood in Mangwon area in 1984 * Case of Damages due to Sexual Harassment at Seoul National University in 1992 * Case of Damages inflicted to ‘Suji Kim’ family caused by the State Violence in 2003 5. Evaluation and Discussion * Litigation as the field of social movements and education - contested field for the hegemony * Building alliance (new relationship) between lawyers – plaintiffs (or victims) – activists - researchers * Importance of ‘plaintiff’ - Representing numerous, nameless plaintiffs * Heavy burden charged to the PI lawyers in the country

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