JaeWon Kim is Dean and Professor of Law at Dong-A University College of Law, where he teaches Law & Society, Comparative American Law and Jurisprudence. He has served in his university as Associate Dean, Director of Law Library, Director of the Institute for Legal Studies, and Faculty Hiring Committee Member. Dean Kim holds law degrees from both Korea and the U.S.: an LL.B. from Soongsil University College of Law in Seoul, Korea; a J.D. and LL.M. from the American University Washington College of Law, where he was a Dean’s Fellow, and a J.S.D. from Cornell Law School, where he was a Clarke Fellow.
    Dean Kim was Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School during 1991-92, Visiting Scholar at Cornell Law School during 2003-04, and Visiting Scholar at Emory University School of Law in January 2005. While actively participating in major NGOs and law reform activities in Korea, he has served as Legal Education Sub-Committee Member of the Presidential Commission on Education Reform. Based on his law reform activities, he contributed a chapter in Raising the Bar, edited by William Alford (Harvard University Press 2005). As a regular contributor to Korean Journal of Law & Society, Dean Kim had served as an editor of the Journal, and currently serves as President of the Korean Association of Law and Society.