Ilwon KANG - Kim & Chang

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Ilwon Kang is an attorney at Kim & Chang. Mr. Kang graduated from Seoul National University and passed the National Bar Examination in 1981. After finishing a two-year program of the Judicial Research and Training Institute, he was appointed as a judge of the Seoul District Court. Mr. Kang served as a judge for 27 years. During his career in the court, he received an LL.M. from the University of Michigan and worked as an expert advisor for several judicial reform committees in Korea. In 2012, he was selected as one of nine justices of the Constitutional Court by the National Assembly. His term of office ended in 2018. He also worked as a member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (better known as the Venice Commission) from 2013 to 2019. Now, he is working as a private attorney and serving as the chair of various commissions, such as the Human Rights Commission of the Prosecutors’ Office, the Special Commission for Criminal Justice, and the Public Service Ethics Committee of the Supreme Court.

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Experience

Kim & Chang (2025-Present)

Chair, Special Commission for Criminal Justice, Ministry of Justice (2024-Present)

Chair, Public Service Ethics Committee of the Supreme Court (2022-Present)

Chair, Criminal Investigation Review Panel for the Prosecutors’ Office (2021-Present)

Chair, Human Rights Commission for the Prosecutors’ Office (2020-Present)

Managing Partner, K1 Chamber LLC (2020-2024)

Justice, Constitutional Court of Korea (2012-2018)

Presiding Judge, Seoul High Court (2011-2012)

Chief of Planning & Coordination Office, National Court Administration (2009-2011)

Chief of Judicial Policy Office, National Court Administration (2007-2009)

Presiding Judge, Daejeon High Court (2006-2007)

Director General for Registration Bureau, National Court Administration (2004-2006)

Presiding Judge, Seoul Western District Court (2003-2004)

Research Judge, Supreme Court (2001-2003)

Director General for Judicial Policy, National Court Administration (1999-2001)

Judge, Seoul High Court (1997-1999)

Director of Judicial Policy, National Court Administration (1994-1997)

Judge, Seoul Eastern District Court (1991-1994)

Judge, Jinju District Court (1989-1991)

Judge, Seoul Central District Court (1985-1989)

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Awards

Order of Service Merit, Blue Stripes (2018)

Publications/Activities

Comments on the Civil Code, with Kim Yong-dam et. Al. (Seoul, Korea, 2010)
Comments on the Criminal Code, with Park Jae-Yoon et. Al. (Seoul, Korea, 2006)

Education

University of Michigan Law School (LL.M., 1993)

Judicial Research and Training Institute of Korea (1984)

Seoul National University, College of Law (LLB., 1982)

Qualifications

Admitted to bar, Korea, 1984

Languages

Korean, English and Japanese

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