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Improvement of Legal Clinic Education in Republic of Korea

  • Public Land Law Review
  • Abbr : KPLLR
  • 2010, 51(), pp.507-530
  • Publisher : Korean Public Land Law Association
  • Research Area : Social Science > Law

Kil Joon Kyu 1

1아주대학교

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ABSTRACT

In the Republic of Korea universities have traditionally been responsible for legal education and court for legal practice in lawyering. In order to expand the number of lawyers who passed the limited Bar-exam and to improve the Legal Education the legal education system has changed similarly with American Legal Education under the Law School. Therefore new Korean Law School must educate both legal education and legal practice. It are the problems in korean university how to teach the legal practice and what contents will be taught. To evaluate and criticise this problem american legal education and legal practice including skills for lawyering as a model should be researched and reviewed before introduction. It is origin that the lawyers practice in the United States had been trained in a private law office as clerkship, or had educated themselves by a course of reading. By 1900 it was quite clear that the law school would come to dominate legal education. American legal education was been enhanced by the Langdell' methode. In the 1960s the american law schools have introduced legal clinic program for professional skills. Most lawyering skills course often take form of “simulation”, “Internship” with live client, or Externship. ABA standard now require that law school offer courses providing live-client or other real-life practice experiences und supervision of law school faculty. After the description of clinical legal education in American law schools the problem of transferability of the concept to the Korean Legal Educations System is then analysed by insight of continental law. Finally improvement of legal practice education in Korea is presented.

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