법학전문대학원 실습과정의 효율적 실시를 위한 연구 -미국 Law School의 실무교육과 비교를 중심으로-

Recently, Korean Law Schools set sail to navigate. The new Korean Law School System adopts the new curriculum of practice courses; such as legal writing, legal research, moot court, clinical programs including externships. Korean Law School System may consider deficiencies in the classic curriculum including civil law, criminal law, and constitutional law. The new practice classes like the externship programs have been supposed to increase practice skills, professionalism, and institutional critique. In reality, most of Korean law schools have been depending on the work places like law firms, courts, and government agencies for designing the field placement programs. On the other hand, regarding the in-house clinics, an original goal of clinical programs, which helps students to ‘learn to learn from experience’, has been disregarded because of institutional matters, inhibiting students’ law practice in Korea. Actually, ‘the in-house live-client clinics’ requires the innovation of the current court rules for lawyering processes, careful management of cases, therefore much resources to perform. Because of the reason above mentioned, the externship programs (field placement programs) can be the most useful substitution for Legal Clinic Programs.