Hye Weon (Rama) Kim
S.J.D. Candidate
hkim at sjd.law.harvard.edu
Dissertation
Towards Comparative Law from the Periphery: Traveling and Changing Legal Ideas on Family, Sex, and Gender in Korea and the United States
Fields of Research and Supervisors
- Family Law and Political Economy with Professor Janet Halley, Harvard Law School, Principal Faculty Supervisor
- Private Law Methodologies in Germany with Professor Holger Spamann, Harvard Law School
- Critical Legal and Social Theories with Professor Duncan Kennedy, Harvard Law School
- Legal History of Korean Private Law with Professor Sun Joo Kim, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Research Interests
- Family Law
- Private Law Theory
- Children and the Law
- Gender and Sexuality Law
- Law and Society in East Asia
- Comparative Law
- Conflict of Laws
Education
- Harvard Law School, S.J.D. Candidate 2018-Present
- Harvard Law School, LL.M. 2016-2017
- Seoul National University, J.D. 2012
- Seoul National University, LL.B. 2009
Representative Publications
- Rama Hyeweon Kim, Historicizing Same-Sex Marriage Debate in the Legal Periphery: Savigny, Nakagawa, and the Korean Marriage, 33 Minn. J. Int’l L. (forthcoming, 2024) (awarded the 2023 Colin B. Picker Graduate Prize by the American Society of Comparative Law)
Academic Appointments and Fellowships
- Teaching Fellow, Family Law of Poor Families, Harvard Law School, 2024
- Graduate Student Associate, Asia Center, Harvard University, 2022-2023
- Affiliate, Weatherheda Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 2021-2022
- Teaching Fellow, Family Law, Harvard Law School, 2021
- Graduate Program Fellow, Harvard Law School, 2018-2019
- Summer Academic Fellow, Harvard Law School, 2017
Additional Information
- Languages: English (fluent), Korean (native), Japanese (reading and research)
- Bar Admission: Korea (2012); New York (2021)
Last Updated: May 31, 2024