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Law and Custom in Korea : Comparative Legal History by Marie Seong-Hak Kim is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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This book sets forth the evolution of Korea's law and legal system from the Chosǒn dynasty through the colonial and postcolonial modern periods. This is the first book in English that comprehensively studies Korean legal history in comparison with European legal history, with particular emphasis on customary law. Korea's passage to Romano-German civil law under Japanese rule marked a drastic departure from its indigenous legal tradition. The transplantation of modern civil law in Korea was facil
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- Author
- Marie Seong-Hak Kim
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781139539814
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Law, Political Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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