법학전문대학원 현장학습과정(Externship Programs)의 기본요건과 효율적 운영을 위한 연구

Recently, Korean Law Schools set sail to navigate. The new Korean Law School System adopts the new curriculum of practice courses, in particular, clinical programs including externships, which old Korean Law department system had never experienced. 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. Even though the most efficient practice class would be in-house clinic, Korean law society and the regulation for the practice do not allow the law school students to be temporary attorney in courts before graduation of law School. In reality, the in-house clinics cannot be the possible option for Korean law school until now. However, the externship programs (field placement programs) could be the efficient substitution for the in-house clinic. Exploring lawyering roles and institutional critique by the externship programs would encourage and support the efficiency of the new Korean law school practice education. With the well-designed field placement programs, students may develop professional responsibility and could have responsible relations with clients, to providing pro bono services.