법학교육방법의 개선방향

Abstract

As korean law school was founded in 2009, there are more serious discussion about the instructional methods of jurisprudence than ever before. This article mainly discusses about the direction for improvement of legal education in law school. First, this article starts from two fundamental characteristics of jurisprudence, namely theoretical directivity and practical directivity. The fact that jurisprudence has these two characteristics simultaneously means that knowledge of legal theory and legal practice should be integrated altogether. Second, we take a general view of six different instructional methods, which have used in american law school: Lecture, Case Method, Interactive Case Analysis, Problem Method, Legal Writing, and Legal Clinic. Finally, this article tries to devise the ways to integrate both theory and practice in actual legal instruction based on previous discussion. Legal theory and legal practice can not only be differentiated from each other, but also be inter-penetrated. Eventually “practice-directional instruction of legal theoretical knowledge” and “theoretical-directional instruction of legal practical knowledge” can be realized especially by knowledge of basic law and special law.