In drafting our country’s modern legal framework for lawyers, the Republic of Korea, the People’s Republic of China, In addition to conducting a comparative study of the laws on lawyers in Japan, we have also compared the legal provisions on lawyers in countries such as the Russian Federation, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Germany.

We hope that the laws on lawyers in some foreign countries that we are publishing will contribute to anyone studying the heritage of the legal profession.

We have undertaken to examine the professional legal regulations of lawyers in countries around the world, Since we launched our initiative in January 2013 to translate and publish, to the best of our ability, the laws on the profession of lawyers in countries around the world in their original languages, four years have now passed.

During this period, through our collective efforts, we have published, in our first edition, the Lawyers Act of the Republic of Korea (enacted in 1949, amended in 1982 and wholly revised in 2000),  the Law on Lawyers of the People’s Republic of China (1996), the Law on the Practice of Advocacy and Bar Organisations of the Russian Federation (2002), The Law on the Professional Conduct of Lawyers in Hong Kong (1996) and the Law on Attorneys in Japan (1949) are being translated from their official sources and published for public access.