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A Reflection on Practical Training in Legal Education in South Korea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

Soogeun OH
Soogeun OH*
Affiliation:
Ewha Womans University Law School, Seoul, Korea
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Abstract

The emphasis on practical training in legal education has come to the fore in many countries. It is little different in South Korea, where curricula for legal education now include a range of courses categorized as “practical training.” The author questions whether the subjects taught under the title “practical training” effectively prepare students for practice in the real world. Education in legal theory and practical training are connected, which makes the categorization of courses specifically aimed at practical training inappropriate. More emphasis should be given to instilling practice awareness throughout all of legal education. It is argued that, in order to develop professional skills, incorporating practice awareness throughout the entire legal education curricula is important—that is, not limiting such skills to practical training courses, but integrating them throughout the teaching of legal theory.

Keywords

practical trainingpractical skilllegal competencieslegal educationpractice awarenesslegal theory education
Type
Legal Education in East Asia
Information
Asian Journal of Law and Society , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , November 2016 , pp. 227 - 236
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press and KoGuan Law School, Shanghai Jiao Tong University 

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Footnotes

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Dean, Ewha Womans University Law School, Seoul, Korea. President, Korean Association of Law Schools. Correspondence to Soogeun Oh, Ewha Womans University Law School, Ewhayeodaegil 52, Seodaemungu, Seoul, 03760, Korea. E-mail address: [email protected]. The author is grateful to Prof Setsuo Miyazawa, who organized the session on East Asian Law and Society at the Annual conference of the Association of American Law Schools in 2016, where the original version of this paper was presented. This work was supported by the Ewha Womans University Research Fund of 2015.

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