- 한국의 법학교육과 법조인 선발
- ㆍ 저자명
- 박상기
- ㆍ 간행물명
- 공공정책연구
- ㆍ 권/호정보
- 1998년|4권 2호|pp.301-320 (20 pages)
- ㆍ 발행정보
- 한국공공정책학회
- ㆍ 파일정보
- 정기간행물| PDF텍스트
- ㆍ 주제분야
- 기타
The judicial system in South Korea causes many problems in the education and management of law due to its exclusive nature of recruiting legal experts. The low competitiveness of the domestically educated legal experts in another issue among the subjects of reform in law. To solve this problem, a totally new method and process of recruitment is needed. First of all, the ineffectiveness of law originating from specific region-based(Seoul) phenomenon should be corrected by introducing the dual form of center-periphery(region). This regionalization of judicial right would make a judge, sensitive to the matter of promotion, relatively to be free from the extreme dependency on his or her own superiors. Recruiting the region-produced law school graduates, not the nationally selected ones, would enable the regionalization of law education, and at the same time the geographic decentalization of the legal experts. If this reform is successfully implemented, the methods and contents of law education will also be naturally transformed in a desirable way. the current law education bound by the national examination system is only oriented toward the pass (or fail) of the test, and even prohibits the opening of new courses, not related to the examination itself. Students are only interested in the result of the examination because of the limit of the total numbers allowed, their diverse academic concerns being extremely restricted. Consequently, the quality of students in terms of amount and level of knowledge can not be high, and no more effort for self-improvement is made once passing the national examination. It is a big contrast compared with the U.S. law students more interested in the competitiveness in the examination, and deep concern regarding the deep concern regarding the diverse specialties as well. In conclusion, there can not be improvement in law education without judicial reform, and the betterment of legal service and the attainment of international competitiveness of the local legal experts would only be a fatasy without proper reform. This problem in law in not a problem only of legal experts but of the mass, and people in general should also be concerned with the legal system so that they could contribute to the change of peculiarity in Korean system of law