법학전문대학원 제도의 성과와 발전방향 -그 도입논의 및 최근쟁점과 관련하여-

The discussions on introducing law school system in South Korea began with the democratization of 1987 in the academic world and became important issue of the educational and judicial reform since Kim, Young-Sam regime(1993-1998). It shows that the introduction of law school system was result of long consideration. It is not proper that critics say that the law school system has not been successful in Germany and in Japan: Germany has never introduced American style law school system; Japan did not follow the Korean pragmatic model. In the South Korean reality, the established interests of lawyers did not allow that the total number of lawyers could be decided according to the market. The Korean reformers took this reality into consideration. The limit of the total number of law school students and the strict standards for the law school permission were the outcomes of the pragmatic consideration of this reality and compromises. The law school system in South Korea has been contributed to the normalization of the university education as a whole and the normalization of legal education. The problems such as legal education at the undergraduate level, training the academic future generations, school expenses, expanding the practice areas of lawyers etc. seem to need further discussions.