로스쿨 제도에 대한 평가 – 진단/개혁

Abstract

"Judicial reform" has always been the main purpose of newly-introduced law school system. Korean Judicial reform committee has discussed for a long time Korean style Judicial examination that caused a lot of problems and then finally decided the abolition of Korean style Judicial examination and the beginning of law school system. However, there were many worries about the era of law school, especially about the training methods and the number of attorneys released in a year. Those worries became a reality. "Everyone is unhappy in this law school system." This proposition is unfortunately true in Korean current law school system. The simple reason of it is a limitation of the number of lawyers by the reason for the Lawyers' status and prestige. Lawyers were characterized as the learned profession indeed for a long time. In Korea, to protect their prestige and power Lawyers have relied on by limited the number of new lawyers those who pass the bar examination. The situation has changed. For making new era of Judicial reform, we should reestablish the status of a lawyer and reform the law school system. There are many obstacles to overcome and reform the law school system. But first of all, we must make a reformation of bar examination. We need to increase the number of total quota of passing the bar examination and then improve the law school system that can not be given up for Judicial reform.