Author: Celeste L. Arrington
Celeste L. Arrington (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Director of the Institute for Korean Studies at the George Washington University. Her research interests include law and social change, comparative policy processes, governance, and transnational advocacy. She wrote Accidental Activists: Victim Movements and Governmental Accountability in Japan and South Korea (Cornell, 2016) and co-edited Rights Claiming in South Korea (Cambridge, 2021) with Patricia Goedde. She has received numerous fellowships. She is the award-winning author of articles in Comparative Political Studies, Law & Society Review, Journal of East Asian Studies, Law & Policy, Asian Survey, and elsewhere. Her latest book, From Manners to Rules: Advocating for Legalism in South Korea and Japan, was published in Cambridge’s Studies in Law and Society series.
