抄録
New legal training system was established at the request of society as a way to greatly improve legal profession both in quality and quantity. Law school is the core of such legal training process and the professional school which provides education specialized in training for the legal profession. By collecting diverse human resources and being exposed to the competition between law schools and the third party evaluation, law school tries to secure the quality of education and to achieve diversity and specialty. Unless national bar examination and apprenticeship training become bottlenecks, this system will, with efforts of faculties and students, fundamentally reform personal structure of Japanese justice system and gradually develop towards educational philosophy.
Having been released from training for the legal profession, undergraduate law faculties became able to create a clear future vision. For development of the rule of law, it is necessary that citizens with basic legal knowledge have the increased presence in the society. Undergraduate law faculties should continue to play a role of nurturing such citizens. Liberal arts education will be conducted first, then various specialized professional education will be provided. It is expected that legal training is left with law school. Moreover, a careful examination may be required when considering training of specialists in fields adjoining law (so-called quasi-legal professionals) as an objective of undergraduate law faculties. It is important to take the future of continuing education into consideration when creating a vision of legal education at undergraduate.
