로스쿨 체제하에서 교양법학교육의 필요성과 범위

This short introductory essay aims to draw public and academic attention to legal education as liberal arts and sciences which is to face a difficult situation as Korean law school system launches in 2009. Since the Law School Act prohibits universities with law school from opening any law degree course at undergraduate level, law as liberal arts and sciences in those universities can be ignored in university education system. The author argues that to avoid such possibility legal scholars need to do their best to make university administration and scholars of other disciplines recognize the importance of law as a academic subject and provide legal education system within university curricula. One option to do that is the institutionalization of student needs research for law classes and the establishment of committee for law as liberal arts. The author also argues that legal education in universities without law school should reform their curricula and teaching methods which may be differentiated from professional legal education at law schools to attract students interested in law as liberal arts.