법학전문대학원에서의 법조윤리 교육의 실태와 개선방향 - 일본의 운영상황을 참고로 -

Abstract

The method of selecting attorneys in Korea is changed from bar exam toLaw school in 2009. Under the act on the establishment and management ofprofessional Law schools, legal ethics is adopted as one of the requiredcourses for the exam to be attorneys. Because there is no course that islegal ethics under bar exam system, reviewing the state and how performsthe education of legal ethics in Law school is important at this stage whichis after 5 years from starting the Law school system. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to look behind the education oflegal ethics in Law school for 5 years and review the problems of theeducation of legal ethics. Afterwards the purpose of this paper is to providethe solution for the problems of legal ethics in Law school at this stage. In addition, Refering the study about education of legal ethics in Japan Lasschool which has been started 5 years ahead of us in 2004 such as howperforms the education of legal ethics and which problems indicate ishelpful. Therefore this paper compare the education of legal ethics in Korea Lawschool with Japan such as the state of education of legal ethics, whichcurriculum time is best, qualification of professor for legal ethics, range ofeducation, teaching method and curriculum. Through these comparative and review, this paper point out problems ofcurrent education of legal ethics such as education level which enumeratethe articles of Attorney At Law Act under the circumstances that the testtype is only optional and the goal of education is preparing for the test oflegal ethics by Ministry of Justice. After this pointing out, this paper provide the new teachig method suchas performing the deepen learning by expressing students’ own viewthrough report and/or discussion and investing time for specific theme fordeepen learning.