Due to the decrease in the number of applicants for law school, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has set up a "6-year integrated course" that shortens the learning institution, which takes 1 years from university entrance to completion of law school, by 5 year to 5 years. The draft policy was presented to the special committee of the law school, etc. of the University Subcommittee of the Central Council for Education.The Central Council for Education is planning to compile an interim report by the end of the year with the aim of ensuring that students can be qualified for the bar examination in a shorter period of time.
With the current law school course, which completes the law school in two years, you will study for a total of six years, four years at university and two years at law school.It is believed that one of the reasons why law schools are shunned is that it takes too much time from university entrance to completion.
To solve this, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has launched a 5-year integrated course.The curriculum of the Faculty of Law and the Graduate School of Law has been organized so that some of the courses taken at the Graduate School of Law will be studied in advance at the Faculty of Law, and the existing early graduation system and jump-in enrollment will be utilized to complete the Faculty of Law in three years. I will be able to enter graduate school in the 3th year after finishing.
The law school started in 2004 as part of the reform of the judicial system.However, the number of applicants has decreased due to the fact that students have passed the preliminary examination to qualify for the judicial examination without entering the law graduate school, and the total number of applicants in 2018 is about 8,000, which is less than 2% of the peak. Are depressed.For this reason, the recruitment of students has been suspended one after another, and there is an urgent need to take measures.
