Of the 2018 law schools nationwide that will continue to be recruited after 39, the number of enrolled students at 5 schools is less than 10, making it difficult to develop classes that ensure interactivity and multi-direction. It was found in the survey results submitted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to the Special Committee for Law Schools of the Central Council for Education.
The survey was conducted in writing in November 13, targeting 2017 law schools such as Komazawa University and Kinki University, which were judged to have problems with objective indicators such as capacity sufficiency.Of these, seven schools, including Senshu University, Nihon University, and Fukuoka University, which did not show any improvement in the issues pointed out in the previous year, were interviewed in December 11, and Nanzan University, which was said to have a particularly big problem, was in January 7. I did a field survey in January.
According to the report, the number of enrolled students in 2017 was less than 5 at five universities, Aichi University, Nanzan University, Kinki University, Seinan Gakuin University, and Fukuoka University, except for universities that have already announced that they will stop recruiting students.Of these, Fukuoka University has 10 consecutive years, Nanzan University has 5 consecutive years, and Aichi University and Kinki University have single-digit numbers of students for 4 consecutive years. Became clear.
In places where there were no successful applicants for the bar examination in the first year after the completion, or the number was very small, there were cases where efforts to improve the quality of teachers were taking shape.
The law graduate school started in 2004 with the aim of training judges, prosecutors, and lawyers with diverse backgrounds, but the demand for legal profession has not increased, lawyers without employment have become a social problem, and the number of enrolled students has decreased sharply. ..
In 2017, Rikkyo University and Aoyama Gakuin University announced that they would stop recruiting from the next fiscal year, and the withdrawal of famous private universities continued.The number of law schools was 74 at the peak, but the number of students recruited in 2018 is almost halved to 39.
