Role: Research Judge, the Constitutional Court of Korea
Seoul, Korea

  Contact: myoo23@emory.edu

  Research Interests:
Gender Equality | Affirmative Justice | Prevention of Sexual Offences

Mira Yoo is a Research Judge of the Constitutional Court of Korea. As a Research Judge, she is engaged in producing reports on cases, which mainly involve constitutional complaints, but may also include competence disputes, and constitutional review of statutes. 

Judge Yoo holds a bachelor’s degree of political science from Yonsei University and is enrolled in the master’s program in constitutional law at Yonsei University. She passed the Korean bar exam in 2002 and finished 2 years training course in Judicial Research & Training Institute of the Supreme Court. During the training course, she also served as a legal intern in a District Court and a District Prosecutor’s Office. 

Prior to working at the Constitutional Court, Judge Yoo was a public prosecutor, investigating and prosecuting criminal cases at the District Prosecutor’s Office. Her current focus is on these principles and theories as they unfold in U.S. Constitutional law, as well as considering governmental policies that can protect youth and women from sexual assault. 

While at Emory as a Visiting Scholar for the 2011-2012 academic year, Judge Yoo participated in a research project focused on polices in Constitutional Law, particularly related to gender equality, affirmative justice and sexual offences and a comparative study of U.S. law and Korean law with Professor Martha Fineman.