「豫防法學」으로서의「立法影響評價」에 관한 小考

As the paradigm of today’s modern medicine is changing from ‘treatment’ to ‘prevention,’ also in the field of law, the emphasis should be shifted from the existing ‘treatment law (interpreting law)’, which treats disputes after they happened, to ‘preventive law (prevention of legal risk in advance)’ which prevents disputes before they happen. In the same way as ‘preventive medicine’ exists to prevent diseases before they occur, ‘preventive law’ can be understood as preventing the occurrence of disputes in advance before leading to lawsuit. The lack of awareness of preventive law in our country is represented by a larger number of lawsuits and the higher sum of money necessary for material jurisdiction of the cases settled out of court than those of other countries. Accordingly, the basic position of this thesis consists in the necessity and importance of researches on ‘preventive law.’ And unlike the preceding researches, this thesis discusses the necessity of preventive law in the legislative process by expanding the research on preventive law to the legislative process which is the domain of public law. Particularly, in developing this thesis, this researcher examines the significance of evaluation of legislative impact on preventive law based on the preliminary evaluation method of the evaluation of legislative impact which has been actively discussed in the field of public law in Korea as the research methodology of preventive law for the recent 10 years. In conclusion, this thesis argues that the evaluation of legislative impact can be used as an alternative methodology of preventive law that contributes to the enactment of better laws through the control of populism legislation, and the efficiency and transparency of the legislative process.