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Professor Chang, Kyung-Hak is regarded as a root of Dongguk Law Science. He gave lectures on civil law and others even before he was inaugurated a fulltime professor of Law Department of Dongguk University. Dongguk Law Science is the cradle of Justice Law Science, and practical law science. Dongguk Law Science has existed supported by the professors who lived practical life as an “intellect in action”, not staying back in schools alienated from reality. One of them is Professor Chang, Kyung-Hak. It is proved from the fact that he participated in School Democracy Movement as a professor representative in Yonsei University after April Revolution in 1960 and had to be resigned from the university for the reason. Professor Chang was in the period of transition of our nation in the early academic circle. It was around the establishment of Korean government after the liberalization from Japan. He was a virtuous man that published his own articles with clear and honest indication of references of Japanese scholars at the time that most colleague professors translated Japanese textbooks and published them as if they had been their works. In that sense, Professor Chang was an “honest scholar” that were few in the early times of Korean law science circle. One of his contributions in terms of sociology of law perspective was that he introduced the books of many German and American s cholars through translation. He was also a scholar specialized in civil law and sociology of law, as well as philosophy of law. He made efforts to pursue Korean-style thoughts of law. As a scholar of civil law, he tried to describe the substantial factors of law represented in the lives and way of thoughts in ordinary people, rather than description of law for a ruler. This study is an introductory study that intends to provide an op portunity to re-evaluate and pay attention on the academic achieve ments of Professor Chang. He developed law science as a 1st generation of civil law in our nation acting as an examiner of Civil Law Deliberation Committee of Republic of Korea in early times and developed Dongguk Law Science. This study has a significance to introduce and summarize his profile first.