Gender Matters in the Judiciary: Adjudicating Sexual Assault in Korea

• In Event: Women and the Law: Violence and (Some) Victories

Brief Overview

Using an original dataset of 700 judicial opinions and 42 interviews, my dissertation explores the interaction effect of judges' gender and relative rank in a collegial panel on sentence length of adult rape cases in Korea.

Author

• Seo Nyeong Holly Jo, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities