Lee Shi-yoon

In this Korean name, the family name is Lee.

Lee Shi-yoon (Korean: 이시윤; 10 October 1935 – 9 November 2024) was a South Korean lawyer and judge. He served as a justice of the Constitutional Court from 1988 to 1993.^[1][2]

Lee Shi-yoon
이시윤
Justice of the Constitutional Court of Korea
In office 15 September 1988 – 17 December 1993
Preceded by	position established
Succeeded by	Lee Jae-hwa [ko]
Personal details
Born	(1935-10-10)10 October 1935 Keijō, Korea, Japan
Died	9 November 2024(2024-11-09) (aged 89) Seoul, South Korea
Education	Seoul National University
Occupation	Lawyer Judge

Life and career

Lee was born in Keijō (modern-day Seoul) in 1935. He graduated from Seoul High School and the Seoul National University School of Law.^[1]

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".^[3]

Lee died at Severance Hospital on November 9, 2024, at the age of 89.^[1][4]

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.^[5]