Study on Clinical Legal Education as an Experiential Methodology in Professional Legal Education

该研究项目对日本法学院开设的临床课程、模拟审判和模拟法庭实践进行了全国范围的调查，并公布了法律诊所、模拟审判和模拟法庭实践的结果。该项目派出成员参加海外各种学术会议，邀请美国、英国、中国和韩国的学者在日本举行专题讨论会，并发表这些国家临床法学教育发展的研究报告。该项目还通过与法学院教授和医学院教授举行研讨会，审查了专业法律教育和医学教育中临床教学法的共同挑战。该项目制定并审查了一项司法学徒培训方案，采用临床法律教育教学法，作为继续专业法律教育的一种形式。

This research project conducted nation-wide surveys on clinical courses and mock trials and moot court practices offered at Japanese law schools, and published the results on legal clinics and mock trials and moot court practices. This project sent its members to various academic conferences overseas, held symposia in Japan with scholars invited from the United States, the United Kingdom, China, and South Korea, and published the studies on developments of clinical legal education in these countries. This project also examined common challenges of the clinical pedagogy in professional legal education and medical education by holding a symposium with law school professors and medical school professors. This project developed and examined a training program for the Judicial Apprenticeship with the pedagogy of clinical legal education as a form of continuing professional legal education.