Introductions of the Materials on Legal Education [9]

This article approaches the issue that focuses on the future of Law School in Japan due to its dated fashion of the way to grow lawyers. In order to examine this question, the author introduces the book, "The Reform of Law School in Japan: Creation of Obligation-Free Law School" by Professor Fujikura who also teaches at law school in the U.S. The book provides with fundamental stance to those who study law, & contains the clue to help them understand the meaning of growing the expertise. The book also points out the unresolved issues that are common concerns among law schools. That is, bureaucratic control causes to restrict the liberalized education & research for graduate school, which deteriorates their proactive sense of self-study. Judicial officers are the closest entity to civilian not special empowered beings. In order to bring up the enriched lawyers for society, it's time to re-recognize that law school should value study of law as Liberal Art, & its embodiment should be studied in depth. T. Murakami