『법사학연구』 50년의 발자취: 한국전통법사를 중심으로 = 50 Years of the Korean Journal of Legal History: Focusing on Traditional Korean Legal History

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Korean Journal of Legal History’s founding, this article summarizes studies on the history of Korean traditional law and examines what direction the Korean Journal of Legal History should take in the future. First of all, I divided Korean Journal of Legal History into periods and looked at them. I divided the period of the Journal of Legal History into three periods: the period when it was published mainly by a small number of prominent scholars since its establishment, the period when research became active with the participation of young scholars and it was published regularly once a year, and the period when it expanded its research field with the participation of researchers in the field of history and was published twice a year, leading to the present period.
Next, I classified the history of traditional law by period and by subject. By period, I followed the existing classifications of the clan law era, tribal law era, early and late statute law era, and unified law code era. By subject, I divided and examined sources of law, property, family, criminal law, litigation, and ideology. And I organized 128 papers related to traditional law according to these classifications.
Looking at the papers accumulated over the past 50 years and thinking about the number of researchers of Korean traditional law history at present and in the near future, I argued that the remaining researchers should jointly research and fill in the areas of research that are lacking in the Korean Journal of Legal History, or plan research topics and conduct more in-depth research in each field of research. Additionally, I argued that efforts should be made to publish long series of papers in the Korean Journal of Legal History