(English) Jeong Geungsik studied law at Seoul National University (SNU) and received his MA and PhD from the same university. He worked at the Korea Legislation Research Institute, and he teaches law within the context of history as a professor at the College of Law at SNU. He has expanded the study of law and the family system to include legal disputes and Korean court history, and he is also interested in the legal reforms, changes, and functions since the Japanese occupation. He is working to change the public’s negative opinion on Korea’s dynastic legal system and to rediscover the meaning of law in contemporary life. His publications include A Study on the History of the Legal System of the Male Heir Succession in Korea, A Study of the Rule of Law in Korea, Korean Transcription of the Mukjae’s Diary, The Annotations to the Great Code for Administering the Country, and Sin Beon the Forgotten Legal Scholar: The Annotated and Transcribed Great Code and Classification of Legal Proceedings. He coauthored Royal Decrees of the Ministry of Justice and Trends of Legislations in the Late Joseon Dynasty and Civil Decrees during Joseon and Civil Laws in Colonial Korea.