Korea is on the verge of introducing a new type of law school modelled on the American law school. It is therefore urgent to prepare for the near future nationwide new systems of training for both the legal practitioners and the legal academics. In this paper I suggested a model of legal training for academic lawyers who are expected to teach and to research at a law school or a law faculty which is not transformed to a new-type law school. The need for the legal scholars who play a leading role in every field of legal science will be under the new system even greater, as the most graduates of law schools become practicing lawyers. Even though the new-type law school is modelled on the American law school, Korea is unable to adapt an American career system because Korea has a much smaller law market than America which is able to afford effectively a proper number of qualified practical lawyers who are trained under hard competition and return to the academic job at law schools. Hence it is necessary to canalize younger generation to the academic career and to prepare them for the job. To provide them with optimal legal training as this profession calls for, there must be a legal training institution. As a matter of fact, it is natural and reasonable not to separate this institution from the law school. The only plausible suggestion, thus, appears to be that the law school integrates this training for the future law professors and scholars in its program. So I suggest that a three-year J.S.D.-course at the law school takes over the task. There will be a great variety of opinions about how we design the course in concreto. Two main ideas are thinkable. One is for the intensified course work, the other for the wide freedom of a participant to enable him to concentrate on a creative scholarly work (doctoral thesis). I maintained for the first idea that a young student who will be a high-grade law professor in the future must be an excellent scholar and teacher and for that he needs a select education and finest training. The J.S.D. program I proposed is in principle for the J.D.-graduates who are interested and talented for the academic activities. The course work which requires sixty notes in sum total consists, in its main, of three parts, one for the general legal science and fundamental understanding of jurisprudence, another for the specialist training in selected law fields, and the rest for the practical skills and the ethics for the teaching profession. In addition to that, every J.S.D.-student has to participate in an external legal practice which lasts at the most three months. The academic degree of J.S.D. gets a participant who has carried out his course with his dissertation successfully defended. The most crucial factor for achieving the goal is, in reality, financial support not only for the students, but also for the law school itself. It also seems to be most natural and reasonable to honor, by qualifying the J.S.D.-graduate for the bar, the young talents' dedication to the academic profession which contributes, on a par with the legal practice, to the nation's law and legal culture. To further the advance of their stance in job market, various post-doctorate promotions are also suggested. Most of all, however, I made clear that every agent in the scene is emphatically required to do his best and to endeavor with eager to be successful in the production of the nation's young legal scholars excellently gualified for the future.

Korea is on the verge of introducing a new type of law school modelled on the American law school. It is therefore urgent to prepare for the near future nationwide new systems of training for both the legal practitioners and the legal academics. In this paper I suggested a model of legal training for academic lawyers who are expected to teach and to research at a law school or a law faculty which is not transformed to a new-type law school. The need for the legal scholars who play a leading role in every field of legal science will be under the new system even greater, as the most graduates of law schools become practicing lawyers. Even though the new-type law school is modelled on the American law school, Korea is unable to adapt an American career system because Korea has a much smaller law market than America which is able to afford effectively a proper number of qualified practical lawyers who are trained under hard competition and return to the academic job at law schools. Hence it is necessary to canalize younger generation to the academic career and to prepare them for the job. To provide them with optimal legal training as this profession calls for, there must be a legal training institution. As a matter of fact, it is natural and reasonable not to separate this institution from the law school. The only plausible suggestion, thus, appears to be that the law school integrates this training for the future law professors and scholars in its program. So I suggest that a three-year J.S.D.-course at the law school takes over the task. There will be a great variety of opinions about how we design the course in concreto. Two main ideas are thinkable. One is for the intensified course work, the other for the wide freedom of a participant to enable him to concentrate on a creative scholarly work (doctoral thesis). I maintained for the first idea that a young student who will be a high-grade law professor in the future must be an excellent scholar and teacher and for that he needs a select education and finest training. The J.S.D. program I proposed is in principle for the J.D.-graduates who are interested and talented for the academic activities. The course work which requires sixty notes in sum total consists, in its main, of three parts, one for the general legal science and fundamental understanding of jurisprudence, another for the specialist training in selected law fields, and the rest for the practical skills and the ethics for the teaching profession. In addition to that, every J.S.D.-student has to participate in an external legal practice which lasts at the most three months. The academic degree of J.S.D. gets a participant who has carried out his course with his dissertation successfully defended. The most crucial factor for achieving the goal is, in reality, financial support not only for the students, but also for the law school itself. It also seems to be most natural and reasonable to honor, by qualifying the J.S.D.-graduate for the bar, the young talents' dedication to the academic profession which contributes, on a par with the legal practice, to the nation's law and legal culture. To further the advance of their stance in job market, various post-doctorate promotions are also suggested. Most of all, however, I made clear that every agent in the scene is emphatically required to do his best and to endeavor with eager to be successful in the production of the nation's young legal scholars excellently gualified for the future.

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