법학전문대학원의 운영방안에 대한 소견

Abstract

This essay aims at examining how to operate a Korean Law School. The author begins with proposing an ideal type of a Korean Law School as a professional legal education institution rather than a substitute of the Judicial Research and Training Institute. Given that ideal, he moves on to analyse the Korean Law School Bill and its ancillary presidential decree proposal together with a report regarding standards for approval of law school. Finally, he addresses some key issues which seem necessary to be checked up in the course of launching a new style legal education in Korea. They include admissions, finance, curriculum, student welfare, academic and student affaires, research facilities, educational objectives, specialization strategy. Instead of giving a concrete summary of his analysis in the conclusion, the author gives a general prospect that a law school system may force legal scholars to encounter infinite competition between legal education institutions in terms of not only legal education and research but also school administration. In addition, he points out that the success of the new legal education system depends upon how much liberal system is introduced as well as how strong and pervasive the vision and will of actors in legal education and legal service market are.