Taehyeon Kim
Thesis title: Neo Human Rights Protection in the ASEAN Region: Assessing the Possibilities of a Regional Human Rights Court for the ASEAN
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Background
Taehyeon Kim is a qualified lawyer in New York in the USA and is currently a doctoral candidate in law at the University of Edinburgh in the UK. She holds an LLB (Hons) from Griffith College Dublin (GCD) in Ireland and an LLM in Human Rights Law from University College London (UCL) in the UK, with her dissertation on “A Critique and Prospects of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration” earning a distinction. Her doctoral thesis revolves around the institutionalisation of regional human rights courts within ASEAN constitutionalism and theoretical analysis of Western and Asian constitutionalism intertwined with normative facets of liberalism and communitarianism.
Qualifications
Attorney-at-law, New York, United States of America
Master of Laws (LLM) in Human Rights Law, University College London, United Kingdom
Bachelor of Laws (LLB (Hons)), Griffith College Dublin, Ireland
Current research interests
• Supranational human rights mechanisms • International human rights law • Regional human rights law • Comparative constitutionalism and constitutional theory • Transnational politics, international relations, and human rights* Chair of the Edinburgh PGR Law Conference, Panel 4: Constitutional Controversies and Global Governance (2024)
* Visiting PhD law researcher at Trinity College Dublin (2023)
* Pro bono legal researcher at Korea Legal Aid Corporation (2022)
* Chair of the 7th Memorial Ceremony of the Humidifier Disinfectants Disaster in the South Korean Parliament (2018)
* Legal assistant and human rights activist at the Nationwide Network of Humidifier Disinfectant Victims in South Korea (2018)
* Activist of the Unicef Society at University College London (2016-2017)
* Assistant of the Irish Innocence Project at Griffith College Dublin (2015)