고려법학 106년의 회고와 전망 - 노동법학 -

Abstract

The journal of the Korea University Legal Research Institute which first launched as Law Journal(법학논집) in 1958 has carried about 53 articles in the field of labor law by October 2012. Most of the authors are from law department of Korea University or Korea School of Law, however increasing number of articles are being submitted by researchers from outside of the institute. Legal researches appeared in Korea University Law Review focus on establishing order of labor relationship as well as realizing protection of workers in the cooperative and organic relation with the whole order of law suggesting directions and issues regarding modern labor order. Particularly, they have pointed out that labor law has been developed through amendment and complement of principles of private law and they regarded constitutional objective order of values as standard of interpretation. Also contrary to the previous tendency of concentrating on comparative studies with Japanese labor law, the history, theories and practices of German labor law began to be dealt with to extend diversity and depth of research on labor law. This article attempted to ruminate the success Korea University Law Review has been deriving for legal studies on Korean labor law based on articles that presented methodology, new issues in regard to labor law system, original research subjects, new logic in the perspective of international comparison. The most notable characteristic of legal studies on labor law presented in Korea University Law Review is that they tried to systemically interpret the laws considering the order of laws as a whole instead of restricting labor law to ideologies and classism in order to harmonize theories and practices. This especially stands out as the academic tradition of Korea University Law Review since 1960, when legal studies on labor law were at a primary stage in Korea. Korea University Law Review has considerably contributed to academic development by pursuing normative integrity in interpretation, focusing on presenting reasonable policies based on constitutional objective order of values and professionally conducting comparative legal studies between Korea and foreign countries including Germany. It is expected that the methodology developed by Korea University Law Review lasts and advances to be established as academic traditions of Korea University Law Review.