| Career |
Yoon Jin Shin joined the faculty of Seoul
National University School of Law in September 2017. She received her LL.B., summa cum laude, at Seoul National
University (2004) and served as a judge in South Korea (2007-10) before she
studied at Yale Law School for her LL.M. (2011) and J.S.D. (2015) degrees. Shin
worked at NYU School of Law as a Hauser Post-Doctoral Global Fellow (2015-16) and
at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) as a Senior Researcher at the Center
for Global Constitutionalism (2016-17). Her recent publications include: ‘Gender
Discrimination and Canons for Constitutional Review’, in Mattias Kumm et al. (eds.),
Global Canons in an Age of Contestation
(OUP 2024); ‘Gender Equality, Individual Empowerment and Constitutional Rights
Review’, in Wen-Chen Chang et al. (eds.), Gender,
Sexuality and Constitutionalism in Asia (Hart Publishing 2024); ‘South Korea: Legal Response to Covid-19’, in Jeff King et al. (eds.), The Oxford Compendium of National Legal
Responses to Covid-19 (OUP 2023); ‘A
Critical Analysis of the Margin of Appreciation Doctrine in the European Court
of Human Rights Jurisprudence: Rights of Social Minorities and the Role of a
Regional Human Rights Court’, Journal
of Human Rights Studies, Vol 6(2) (2023) (Kor); ‘Human Trafficking’, in Elgar
Encyclopedia of Human Rights (Edward Elgar Publishing 2022); ‘Constitutional Court of Korea’, in
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative
Constitutional Law (OUP 2022); ‘Transnational Constitutional Engagement: A
Contextualization of Global Constitutionalism by the Constitutional Court of
South Korea’, Global Constitutionalism, Vol 10(2) (2021); ‘Proportionality
in South Korea: Contextualizing the Cosmopolitan Rights Grammar’, in Po Jen
Yap (ed.), Proportionality in Asia (CUP
2020); ‘Non-Citizens’ Rights,
Constitutional Review and an Inclusive Democracy’, Journal of Korean Law, Vol 19 (2020); ‘Cosmopolitanising Rights
Practice: The Case of South Korea’, in Anne Peters et al. (eds.), Global Constitutionalism from European and
East Asian Perspectives (CUP 2018); and a monograph – A Transnational Human Rights Approach to Human
Trafficking: Empowering the Powerless, Brill |
Nijhoff (2017). Her doctoral dissertation on transnational migration and human
trafficking won the Ambrose Gherini Prize (2015) from Yale Law School, for the
best student writing in the field of International Law.
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