Baik Tae-Ung

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Baik Tae-Ung (born 1963) is a Professor of Law at the University of Hawaii at Manoa William S. Richardson School of Law in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is Director of the Center for Korean Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. A leading academic authority on transitional justice, social movement, and human rights in Asia, he specializes in international human rights law, comparative law, and Korean law. Baik is a well-known former South Korean prisoner of conscience. In 2015, he was selected as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) representing the Asia-Pacific region. He served the WGEID until 2022, as a member (2015–2022), Vice-Chair (2018–2020), and Chair-Rapporteur (2020–2021) reviewing the enforced disappearance cases submitted to the United Nations by the States and the families of the victims or civil society organizations. He had conducted research on human rights issues as a visiting scholar at the East Asian Legal Studies program at Harvard Law School from 2002 to 2003, and, during his sabbatical in 2017–18, researched as a visiting scholar at the Seoul National University Law Research Institute. He is also a member of the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative Advisory Council, a project of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis to establish the world's first treaty on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity