생명윤리법의 발전에 따른 형사법의 변화

The change of criminal justice system pursuant to the development of bioethical law

‘Bioethics and Law’ is a branch of law that make researches in legal implications as well as ethical implications of life science and biotechnology. The development of life science and biotechnology leads to some new enactments, for example, 「Bioethics and Safety Act 200 4」. Furthermore, it brings about changes of many existing law in general. Life science and biotechnology especially present urgent legal problems in major fields of criminal law i.e. laws of crime & penalty, and criminal procedure law. Nowadays legal scholars and practitioner in criminal law deal with hot issues resulting from the development of biotechnologies, for example, sex discernment of fetus, embryo cloning, brain death, organ transplantation & organ sales, surrogate mother. Moreover, the development of biotechnology has an effect on the traditional issues of criminal law including the beginning and end of human beings etc. So basic legal rules and dogmatics in respect to abortion, euthanasia should be revised and reconstructed in accordance with the developments of biotechnology and bioethical law.