About Asian Women Law InstituteHistory and Goal

The Asian Women Law Institute was established in December 1996 as an institution to contribute to the development of culture on law through academic researches and exchanges among Asian women jurists, juristic exchanges and cooperations in Asia. In order to continue to promote the purpose, we have launched the journal 『Asian Women Law』 in 1998 and have been continuing to publish the journal to this day.
Yeon-Nam, Kyoung-Suk Bae is the founder of the Asian Women Law Institute and the publisher of the journal 『Asian Women Law』 and she contributed to the modernization of the Korean Family Law.

The journal 『Asian Women Law』 has been published for over a decade and over 200 excellent Asian writers have been participating in various subject areas.
From the first issue to the fifth and sixth, female writers were overwhelming, but from the seventh such characteristics were less distinctive. And on the initial period of the themes, the Family and Civil Law fields such as Support, Adoption, Guardianship, Divorce, Parental right and Inheritance were heavy. However, since the eighth issue, the writers have diversified in the subject matter such as Human rights.
The journal 『Asian Women Law』 will continue to be instrumental in promoting academic exchanges between Korea, Japan and China, and will also seek to find new writers and encourage writers to interact with other writers in Asian regions outside those three countries.

The Asian Women Law Institute has many members who are leading figures in academics and legal professions as well as those who are involved as directors and consultants of the Institute. Based on the ability of these members, in addition to publishing the academic journals, this institute is engaged in various academic activities such as holding symposiums, academic conferences, and seminars led by the Asian Women Law Society.