법학교수의 법관임용에 관한 소고

This essay is on the appointment of law professors for the judgeship in the current Korean situation. According to the laws and regulations in Korean judicial system, only the licensed-law practitioners have been qualified to be appointed for the judgeship. In order to reform this system, Korean law professors have insisted to give them law practitioner’s license for the past 50 years. The author criticizes that the long-standing alternative of Korean law professors has very weak ground and rationale. With theoretical and sociological arguments, he suggests that the law professors who have Ph. D. in Law and serve more than 10 years in the University should be qualified to have judgeship in Korea. The new alternative could serve for the Korean law professors to overcome a kind of identity crisis that the new professional law school system has brought in Korean legal profession since 2009.