Legal Studies

The International Internship course develops vital business skills employers are actively seeking in job candidates. This course is comprised of two parts: an internship, and a hybrid academic seminar. Students are placed in an internship within a sector related to their professional ambitions. The hybrid academic seminar, conducted both online and in-person, analyzes and evaluates the workplace culture and the daily working environment students experience. The course is divided into eight career readiness competency modules as set out by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), which guide the course’s learning objectives. During the academic seminar, students reflect weekly on their internship experience within the context of their host culture by comparing and contrasting their experiences with their global internship placement with that of their home culture. Students reflect on their experiences in their internship, the role they have played in the evolution of their experience in their internship placement, and the experiences of their peers in their internship placements. Students develop a greater awareness of their strengths relative to the career readiness competencies, the subtleties and complexities of integrating into a cross-cultural work environment, and how to build and maintain a career search portfolio.

After an introduction to the theory, three major themes in international law–human rights, international criminal law, and migration/refugee law–are explored from a gender perspective. Gender bias is a multi-layered phenomenon. It is quite common to distinguish three forms of bias in law: first at the level of legal provisions itself, secondly regarding the effects of law in practice due to differences in position of men and women, and thirdly at an institutional or systematic level: invisible obstacles for an impartial application of the law such as sex-stereotypes and dominant gender ideology.

This course provides an introductory primer to the field of international law. It then navigates through a series of case studies exemplifying the subversion of legal conflicts by mass media, including Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, and even climate change. Finally, it tests the limits of this approach by considering the involvement of social media as an emerging Fifth Estate.

This course examines the concept of law from a philosophical perspective and explores the virtues and problems of the contemporary ideal associated with the notions of the rule of law, democracy, and human rights. It explores the contributions of democratic constitutionalism, as well as the meaning of legal activity as a social practice linked to values.

This course offers a basic understanding of the judicial system, constitutional law, civil law and civil procedure, and criminal law and criminal procedure of the Republic of Korea. Three of the law school faculty members jointly teach their respective parts as a team during the semester. There is no requirement for the courses to be taken prior to this course or for the major of the students. Each week, some of the essential concepts of law, relevant law and legal system, cases, policies and practices are introduced and discussed. In further detail, the course proceeds along the following themes and topics: a general overview of the judicial system; in the area of constitutional law, a history of the Constitution, the separation of powers and the constitutional institutions, the fundamental rights and the constitutional adjudication; in the area of civil law, distinctive features of the Korean civil law, particularly focusing on contracts and torts, and the civil procedures in Korea; and, in the area of criminal law and criminal procedure, basic principles and core issues of the Korean criminal law, and the structure and recent changes of the Korean criminal procedure.