Challenges of Clinical Legal Educatoin and Re-examination of Law School Education

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23330036
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: New fields of law
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: MIYAGAWA Shigeo 早稲田大学, 法学学術院, 教授 (30190739)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): HANAMOTO Hiroshi 獨協大学, 法科大学院, 教授 (40228515) ; MIYASHITA Tsuguhiro 日本医科大学, 医学部, 教授 (50174181) ; MIYAZAWA Setsuo 青山学院大学, 法務研究科, 教授 (60001830) ; WADA Yoshitaka 早稲田大学, 法学学術院, 教授 (80183127) ; SUAMI Takao 早稲田大学, 法学学術院, 教授 (80262418)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): TANAMURA Masayuki 早稲田大学, 法学学術院, 教授 (40171821) ; URAKAWA Michitaro 早稲田大学, 法学学術院, 教授 (90063792) ; KAI Katsunori 早稲田大学, 法学学術院, 教授 (80233641) ; OHMI Koji 早稲田大学, 法学学術院, 教授 (90120906) ; TAKABAYASHI Ryu 早稲田大学, 法学学術院, 教授 (90277765) ; KIKUCHI Yoshimi 早稲田大学, 法学学術院, 教授 (10261265) ; HIOKI Masaharu 早稲田大学, 法学学術院, 教授 (80554055) ; SAKAKIBARA Fujiko 早稲田大学, 法学学術院, 教授 (30554050) ; YAMASAKI Yuko 立命館大学, グローバル・イノベーション研究機構, 研究員 (20507149) ; ISHIDA Kyoko 早稲田大学, 法学学術院, 助教 (10453987) ; SATO Hironori 早稲田大学, 総合研究機構, 客員次席研究員 (90553628) ; HARAGUCHI Yoshiaki 早稲田大学, 法学学術院, 助手 (40551594) ; KIDANA Shyoichi 早稲田大学, 法学学術院, 教授 (90066697)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 臨床法学教育 / リーガル・クリニック / エクスターンシップ / 法科大学院 / 法曹養成 / 法学教育

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Our research revealed that externships are the most prevalent method of clinical legal education in Japan, and that their utmost challenge is to assure the quality of educational contents in field placement offices. Our research also found that the American law schools are headed toward making clinical courses required for students to graduate from law school. In European countries, faculties of law began to introduce the clinical pedagogy to the professional legal education in their respective tradition of the lecture-oriented method of doctrinal instructions. In our research on the collaboration in the medical/legal education, we began to develop a program to provide legal literacy for physicians and medical service providers to understand legal nature of physicians/patients disputes within the legal framework. We also began to develop a program to provide collaborative trainings by lawyers and clinical psychologists for mediators in family courts in Japan.

Free Research Field

基礎法学