대학 학부에서의 법학교육

Abstract

The current legal education system has been proved to be inviable in the

coming global era. As an alternative to it, the American-style law school system

has long been proposed and at last 'The Bill on Law School' was laid before

the Congress and is about to be passed.

According to the Bill, out of 90 colleges(departments) of law at most 30 law

schools will be set up. The university which wants to house law school is

supposed to close the current college of law in undergraduate level, which means

that the main stream of legal research and education will be shifted to the law

schools in graduate level and the secondary legal education will be conducted in

the undergraduate colleges of law.

This article deals with what will be the impact to the law colleges after the

introduction of law school system and more broadly what is to be done for the

legal education in undergraduate level.

With the introduction of law school system the social status of the colleges of

law will be lowered rapidly and there may be no reason to continue to manage

the colleges of law. If there is any reason to continue, it is on the condition

that the current colleges of law should be radically reformed. In this article, the

localization of law colleges is described in detail as one of alternatives, which

means to restructure the college to fulfill the needs of local area. But despite

such restructuring efforts there are always the possibilities for the law colleges to

wither away. For as the law school prevails, more and more legal services will...