Education
• LL.B. Seoul National University, Korea
• LL.M Seoul National University, Korea
• Ph.D. in Law Seoul National University, Korea
• Research Cologne University, Germany
Career Experiences
• 2000 ~ 2001 Researcher, Korea Institute of Criminology
• 2001 ~ 2004 Assistant Professor, Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea
• 2004 ~ present Professor, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
• 2012 ~ 2016 Associate Dean for Yonsei Law School
• 2010 ~ 2011 Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley, CA, USA
• 2017 ~ 2018 Visiting Scholar, UBC, Vancouver, Canada
Activities
• 2004 ~ 2005 Judicial Reform Committee (Supreme Court of Korea), expert member
• 2004 ~ 2005 Committee for International Criminal Law, member (Ministry of Justice)
• 2005 ~ 2006 Presidential Committee on Judicial Reform, member
• 2009 ~ 2010 Consultation Committee on Judicial Matters (Supreme Court of Korea), member
• 2015 ~ 2017 Investigation Review Commission (Seoul Metropolitan Police)
• 2016 ~ 2017 Criminal Justice Advancement Committee (Supreme Court of Korea)
• 2021 ~ present Consultation Committee member, National Investigation Agency
Research interest
• Criminal law and procedure
• Jury trials
• Legal methodology - legal paradigmism
• Law and psychology
• Artificial Intelligence and ethics
Publication
• Paradigm and the Changes of Law: Perspective on Methodology of Korean Criminal Law, Justice, 158-1, 2017
• Seizure of a Voluntarily Produced Item and the Exclusionary Rule, Beobjo, Vol.719, 2016․10
• Interference with a bidding, fraud, and the directness of computer fraud, 2016
• Rethinking the principle of responsibility considering evolutionary cognitive science, 2015
• CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN CRIMINAL TRIALS OF KOREA: A STATISTICAL PORTRAIT OF THE FIRST FOUR YEARS, 2012 (with K. Park, in English)
• Comments on the Korean Criminal Code Revision Bill of 2011: the Necessity of General Definition Clauses, 2013
• Reconsideration of the “Dangerousness” in Impossible Attempt of Korean Criminal Code §27- Including a Perspective of Behavioral Law and Economics, 2013
• An Analysis and Suggestion of Binding Force of Jury Verdict in Korea, 2012
• Study on Mock Juror's understanding of Proof beyond a reasonable doubt standard, 2011 (coauthor)
• Deliberation of Hung Juries : Mock Jury Simulation, 2010 (coauthor)
• Distinction between “Impossibility of Completion” and “Dangerousness” Element in Impossible Attempt of §27 of the Korean Penal Code, 2008, and many others.