Kim Bok-dong, a victim of Japanese military comfort women and a women’s rights activist, at the press conference of the 1,476th Wednesday held in front of the former Japanese embassy in Jongno-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the afternoon of the second anniversary of the second cycle. There is a guide board installed. yunhap news
Strong criticism was poured among fellow professors at and outside Harvard for the thesis by John Mark Ramseyer, a law school professor at Harvard University, who claimed the victims of Japanese military comfort women were’prostitutes’. Professor Ramsey’s arguments have a wave of waves as students and professors raise issues.
On the 7th (local time), the Harvard campus newspaper’Crimson’ posted a critical public opinion saying that international debate is taking place because of Professor Ramsey’s claim that Japanese military comfort women were voluntarily employed.
Carter Eckerty, who teaches Korean history at Harvard University, pointed out that Ramsey’s thesis is “disastrously flawed empirically, historically and morally.” He said he and Andrew Gordon, a professor of history, are preparing a journal to refute Ramsey’s claims.
Alexis Duden, a professor of history at the University of Connecticut, who said that he took Professor Ramsey’s class at the University of Chicago in the 1990s, said, “It’s an academic work that’s inadequate based on the scholarly evidence.” “Because I couldn’t, the paper was written based on a conceptually wrong understanding.”
Harvard University newspaper’Crimson’ website capture
Criticism of Professor Ramsey is spreading among Korean students at Harvard University. The Harvard Law School Korean Student Association (KAHLS) issued a statement on the 4th, saying, “I strongly condemn the intentional deletion of human rights violations and war crimes.” They have also been signed by 800 law students across the United States who participated in the statement by the morning of the 6th.
The Harvard Undergraduate Korean Student Association (KISA) plans to submit a petition to the university headquarters demanding apology from Professor Ramsey.
Professor Ramsey said that this backlash was “the responsibility of the law school students,” and “I am willing to talk to students about the thesis.”
Previously, Professor Ramsey wrote in a dissertation entitled’Sexual Contracts in the Pacific War’, “In World War II, women demanded short-term contracts because they went to the battlefield, and the contractors demanded contracts that give women incentives.” It claimed that it caused international controversy.
This thesis was published in Volume 65 of’International Review of Law and Economy’, a legal and economic journal scheduled to be published next month.
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