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Public Interest Law Development in South Korea: Toward a New Legal Orthodoxy? |
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Public interest law is a newly evolving conceptualization in South Korea. Terms such as public interest litigation (kongik sosong), public interest law movement (kongik pŏp undong) and public interest lawyer (kongik pyŏnhosa) have emerged within the past decade as various citizen movement organizations (CMOs) have mobilized the law for social transformation, one primary example being Peoples Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD). On the broadest level, public interest law can be defined as the legal mobilization of CMOs. With lawyers embedded in its board and centers, PSPD serves as a unique case study of how lawyers work with movement activists and citizen constituents not only to advance liberal reform agendas in the name of public interest, but also to promote legal institutional reform, such as increasing the number of total lawyers and redesigning legal education and training.
The shift of law reform initiative from the state to citizen movement organizations may not be as significant if lawyers, part of the elite structure, are the main actors who frame the impetus for socio-political change and eventually make their way into political office. Countermovement by conservative elites and chaebŏl conglomerates demonstrate political backlash to some of PSPDs campaign objectives, and raise the issue of power reconfiguration by and among politically divided professional elites. This paper asks whether the development of public interest law symbolizes transference of political power to a new coalition of liberal legal elites, thereby introducing a new legal orthodoxy in South Korea. |
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Name: The Law and Society Association URL: http://www.lawandsociety.org
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MLA Citation:
| Goedde, Patricia. "Public Interest Law Development in South Korea: Toward a New Legal Orthodoxy?" 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/p178160_index.html> |
APA Citation:
| Goedde, P. , 2007-07-25 "Public Interest Law Development in South Korea: Toward a New Legal Orthodoxy?" 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/p178160_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Public interest law is a newly evolving conceptualization in South Korea. Terms such as public interest litigation (kongik sosong), public interest law movement (kongik pŏp undong) and public interest lawyer (kongik pyŏnhosa) have emerged within the past decade as various citizen movement organizations (CMOs) have mobilized the law for social transformation, one primary example being Peoples Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD). On the broadest level, public interest law can be defined as the legal mobilization of CMOs. With lawyers embedded in its board and centers, PSPD serves as a unique case study of how lawyers work with movement activists and citizen constituents not only to advance liberal reform agendas in the name of public interest, but also to promote legal institutional reform, such as increasing the number of total lawyers and redesigning legal education and training.
The shift of law reform initiative from the state to citizen movement organizations may not be as significant if lawyers, part of the elite structure, are the main actors who frame the impetus for socio-political change and eventually make their way into political office. Countermovement by conservative elites and chaebŏl conglomerates demonstrate political backlash to some of PSPDs campaign objectives, and raise the issue of power reconfiguration by and among politically divided professional elites. This paper asks whether the development of public interest law symbolizes transference of political power to a new coalition of liberal legal elites, thereby introducing a new legal orthodoxy in South Korea. |
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