학문후속세대 양성과 법학교육의 미래에 관한 몇 가지 단상

Ten years have passed since the law school opened in South Korea for the first time in history after a long discussion. The number of each law school graduates who passed the bar exam was carefully under wraps like the box of Pandora for the past seven years. But it started to be released from last year. Various people gave various opinions about the law school's present problems and important future challenges. However, it is difficult to find interest in the future of law(Rechtswissenschaft or science of law) as a discipline, the future of legal education, and the follow-up generation of scholars. It is not telling the truth, but misleading or concealing of the very nature of things, if someone argues that everybody will be able to become an expert in theoretical jurisprudence by studying three years for the preparation of bar exam and two years of professional doctorial studies, or by having 5 years experience in legal practice. In order to draw out the problems of current education, this paper briefly introduced the qualifications for professors of law in Germany. In conclusion, I emphasized the necessity of training the next generation of scholarship and the necessity of maintaining the jurisprudence as a scientific discipline. And I proposed the reintroduction or reconstruction of legal education in undergraduate level. If it is difficult, at least, the undergraduate school should have an institutional apparatus capable of legal education. Because of my suggestion, nobody has to fear that law school will disappear. Let’s discuss it openly to solve the problem, to help legal science find its own place and law school succeed in training lawyers.