법조인 양성제도의 개선방안

Abstract

As a new legal profession training institution of lawyers, 25 law schools nationwide was established from 2009 accepting a total of 2,000 students a year. The change in policy was aimed at increasing the number of lawyers, meaning the public could receive good quality of legal services at manageable fees through increased competition among firms. Korea will abolish the national judicial examination by 2017, making graduating from law school the only way to gain entry to the legal profession. However, the law school system is facing a lot of criticisms. One of the criticisms is that the high tuition fees. The average tuition fees are 15.9 million won per year in 2015 and they has been accused that they are schools for the rich. It is not easy to reconcile the competing interests of different social groups for desirable Legal Profession Institution. If it is possible to solve problems of law school system through partial improvement, there is no necessity for rearguing the national judicial examination. But law school system has the fundamental limitations difficult to solve, and the argument for coexistence of the national judicial examination is more persuasive as balance weight designated to compensate for limited law school system. The Purpose of this study is to compare national judicial examination and law school and to review the problems of law School system in Korea and to suggest thereby the way that can improve law school and the bar exam, and also discuss the national judicial examination for the legal education normalization perspective.