Oxford LibGuides: Korea (RoK) : legal resources: Constitution

Constitution

The Constitution of the Republic of Korea of July 17, 1948 has since had a number of amendments.

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Civil & human rights

UN's OHCHR profile on Republic of Korea
Official website

Human Rights in Asia : a comparative legal study of twelve Asian jurisdictions, France, and the USA by Randall P. Peerenboom (Editor); Carole J. Petersen (Editor); Albert H. Y. Chen (Editor)
Call Number: Internat 570 P375a

ISBN: 9780415360029

Publication Date: 2006

Includes chapter on Korea

Decentering citizenship : gender, labor, and migrant rights in South Korea
Requires Oxford SSO. 2016 Stanford UP title by Hae Yeon Choo

RoK Constitutional Court

Constitutional Court of Korea 헌법재판소
Link to the pages in English of the official court website. See link below to search for judgments
Constitutional Court of Korea: Decisions
English language version of search tool. Case numbers eg 2016Hun-Na1
year+case code (see list below)+ unique case number
Hun-Ka : Constitutional review of statutes
Hun-Na : Impeachment
Hun-Da : Dissolution of a political party
Hun-Ra : Competence dispute
Hun-Ma : Constitutional complaint (Pursuant to Constitutional Court Act, Article 68, paragraph 1)
Hun-Ba : Constitutional complaint (Pursuant to Constitutional Court Act, Article 68, paragraph 2)
Hun-Sa : Appointment of a counsel and preliminary orders
Hun-A : Special cases such as retrial and etc.

Legal Reform in Korea by Tom Ginsburg (editor)
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link

ISBN: 0415341000

Publication Date: 2004

See chapter by Lim Jibong, The Korean Constitutional Court, judicial activism, and social change,

Chapter 6 of the Constitution established the Constitutional Court

Article 11.1 sets out its jurisdiction
"The Constitutional Court shall have jurisdiction over the following matters:

The constitutionality of a law upon the request of the courts;

Impeachment;

Dissolution of a political party;

Competence disputes between central government organs, between central government organs and local governments, and between local governments; and

Constitutional complaint as prescribed by statute."

See also the Constitutional Court Act: August 5, 1988, which has since been amended. (The most recent (as of July 2016) December 21, 2007.)