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Challenges and prospects of lawyering education in Law School in Korea

  • DONG-A LAW REVIEW
  • 2011, (52), pp.67-105
  • Publisher : The Institute for Legal Studies Dong-A University
  • Research Area : Social Science > Law

Choi Sung Soo 1

1동아대학교

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ABSTRACT

In the Law School system, the most important part is the curriculum. Law School system emphasizes a practical training. Legal education of Law School in the United States currently emphasis on the clinical method, so is changing its focus from case method to clinic method. If we want a practical training in our law school system to be substantial, clinical method should be adopted widely. Lawyering is part of that. Through this course, we can learn the various lawyering skills. Firstly we need to recognize the importance of lawyering education, and to increase interest in this field. For lawyering education to be profitable, we need to organize well the curriculum. To get an actual case in Law school, we need to install the legal background of in-house clinic. Also we need to establish a Model Student Practice Rule that let students to treat the actual case dealt with the real progress. Prepared teachers are also needed and a budget support for training and clinical legal education should be followed. Lawyering is not only for course getting technical mastery. With lawyering technology, so-called value-oriented lawyering is also pursed in this course, at the result of that, we can discharge a lawyer who are theoretically and practically prepared to the field. Law school-era lawyer orients a competitive lawyer armed with theoretical education, practical training, ethics training and specialized education. To its starting point, a clinic method including lawyering and legal clinics is situated.

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