Since independence from japanese imperialism critical problems concerning law education have been pointed out without good results, introduce of law school system is consequently expected not only to realize improvement and enlargement of justice service for citizens, but also to give law education a turning point by making law education change and connecting law education with justice system erviceandturning points to law education
Fundamentally law education in graduated law school should be managed autonomously by each school, should consider educational goal, ideology, circumstances, clients of each school and produce the optimum conditions of law education by such autonomy and competition.
For good quality of law education are necessary execellent students and professors, agreeable facilities, especially law library offering diverse and profound informations effectively, and dignified law review, but in addition systematic and diverse curriculum should be offered to students.
According to Act for Establishing and Administering Law School, law school should maintain systematic curriculum, such as by opening legal course necessary to breed up lawyers corresponded to the educational object of law school, and its implementing ordinance provides just as practical required subjects legal ethics, retrieving legal information, drawing legal documents such as the decision and bill of suit, mock trial and internship and externship for legal practice and entrusts theoretical courses to autonomy of each law school.
Because subjects for examination, according to Bill for Bar Examination drawn by Ministry of Justice, include criminal law and criminal procedure law, many law school students will show many interest in criminal law subjects and each law school should place more weight on teaching methods and contents of its subjects.
How and What to teach subjects about criminal procedure law depends on several points, what is the object of legal education, how should are subjects about criminal procedure law organically connected with criminal law subjects, considering balance with other field of law subjects and how much should be considered preceding study of undergraduate law students.
many law school will teach subjects about criminal procedure law in three or four semesters, but each subject in total should be lectured not accumulatively but systematically and organically. For example, in basic course should be offered an outlook about criminal procedure, points at issue and related legal cases, and in advanced course, such as las of investigation, law of evidence and case study, diverse and systematic informations to acquire knowledges and logical tools, which can apply directly to practice as lawyer. each law school should also develope a textbook about criminal procedure law in cases and materials, in response the Law School Council and the Criminal Law Association should take trouble about support and cooperation for each law school.
As respects of teaching method, various methods, for example teaching by rote, socratic method, problem based learning, should be offered students to acquire knowledge about theories, which our statutes system has accumulated for a long time, and practical skills and knowhows effectively. And for students specializing not in law in undergraduate is necessary tutoring system for preparation and review of their lessons and orientation process for improving ability of legal information and legal mind.