법학 학문후속세대 양성 체제의 현재와 미래

The reality of fostering the next generation of legal academics is dismal. Surprisingly, the number of doctoral students, the number of new PhDs in law, and the number of law dissertations has not decreased significantly at the national level. The problem is that behind the national figures are deepening differences between universities and majors. While a few large law schools in Seoul are still actively running doctoral programs, law schools in the provinces and small and medium-sized law schools in Seoul are struggling to maintain their doctoral programs due to a sharp decline in enrollments. While new researchers are relatively actively recruited in areas of law that are close to practice, it is difficult to foster new researchers in legal philosophy and other non-practical areas of law because there are few recruitments. This article focuses on three factors in fostering the next generation of researchers:raising interest in the legal academia, providing incentives to choose the academic career path, and securing a certain period of focused research. From these three perspectives, this article compares the system of Korea for fostering the next generation of legal academics with those in the United States, Germany, and Japan. based on such a comparative review, this article makes a few recommendations:reducing the gaps among universities in terms of the academic capacity, public support for outstanding full-time researchers, systematizing education at doctoral course, creating a community of researchers, improving the faculty recruitment process, and improving current bar examination system.