미국 로스쿨의 환경법 클리닉 현황과 시사점에 관한 연구

Called as the most revolutionary change in the history of Korean legal education and legal professional selection, 25 law schools authorized by the Korean Government started in 2009 with their first students, following the required law enactment in 2007. Every law school is required to choose a specialty area as one condition for accreditation, and Kangwon University School of Law chose environmental law as its speciality. As the only law school specialized in the environmental law in Korea, KNU Law School has a mission to elevate its legal clinic to environmental law-specialized clinic. Also, a variety of environmental issues come out almost everyday, including nuclear power plant and climate change, and so US environmental law clinic's activities and roles become a great example for Korean law schools, especially for KNU Law School. Thus, this article reviews a variety of environmental law programs and environmental law clinics activities in the US law schools, along with their challenges, concluding with a short introduction for the Korean law school environmental law programs and lessons from the US environmental law clinics' activities.