Lee Shi-yoon
Lee Shi-yoon was a South Korean lawyer and judge. He served as a justice of the Constitutional Court from 1988 to 1993.
Life and career
Lee was born in Keijō in 1935. He graduated from Seoul High School and the Seoul National University School of Law.In 1988, Lee was appointed as a justice of the newly created Constitutional Court of Korea. Lee studied the German system of constitutional adjudication of the German Federal Constitutional Court and wrote a series of articles called "Personal Views on Constitutional Justice".
Lee died at Severance Hospital on November 9, 2024, at the age of 89.
Brief history
- Born in Seoul on October 10, 1935
- He graduated from the Faculty of Law, Seoul National University, in 1958 and passed the military service examination.
- Lecturer at Seoul National University Faculty of Law, Graduate School of Law 1962,Seoul National University, Kookmin University, Kukje University, and Ewha Womans University
- Seoul District Court Judge 1962.
- Seoul Civil Court Judge, 1963
- Assistant Professor, Seoul National University School of Law and Graduate School of Judicial Studies, 1964
- Acting Seoul High Court Judge 1970
- Seoul High Court Judge 1973
- Research Judge of the Supreme Court in 1974
- 1975 Chief Justice of the Seoul Civil District Court and Professor at the Judicial Research and Training Institute
- Chief Justice of the Gwangju High Court, 1981
- Chief Justice of the Seoul High Court, 1982
- Chief Judge of Chuncheon District Court in 1987
- Chief Judge of the Suwon District Court and Permanent Judge of the Constitutional Court in 1988
- 16th Chairman of the Audit and Inspection Board in 1993
- He opened a law firm in 1998 and became a professor at Myongji University.
- President of the Civil Law Society in 1998
- Chairman of the Special Committee for the Review of the Civil code, Ministry of Justice, 1999
- Professor, Faculty of Law, Kyung Hee University, 2000
- 2006 Consultant Attorney at Deryon Law Firm.