Toll Survey on Legal Consciousness of U.S. Law School Students

本研究试图了解法学院学生在三年教育中职业偏好、法律的和规范意识的变化。这项研究是在华盛顿特区的乔治华盛顿法学院进行的小组研究。第一次调查是在2003年1月由乔治华盛顿特区的研究中心在得到大学行政部门的许可后进行的。在600名学生中收集了243份样本。所收集的样本由男性（51%）和女性（49%）以及一年级学生（31%）、二年级学生（38%）和三年级学生（28%）组成。第二次调查是在2003年10月底左右进行的，目的是研究暑期工作和实习的推论。第二次调查共收集了178个样本。这些样本由男性（55%）和女性（46%）以及一年级学生（35%）、二年级学生（42%）和三年级学生（23%）组成。在职业偏好方面，学生的回答没有显著变化。然而，在了解了律师职业市场的现实后，回答模式却不太规范。学生的法律的和社会规范也没有发生显著变化。但是，在刑罚和人权领域，变化不大。本文拟与2004年日本引进法学院制度后法学院学生的回答模式进行比较。

This research tried to make clear changes of occupation preference, legal and norm consciousness of law school students during three years education. This research was conducted as a panel research at George Washington School of Law in Washington D.C.. The first survey was conducted in January 2003 by research center of George Washington D.C. after permission had been given by the administration of the university. 243 samples were collected among 600 students. The colleted samples were composed of men (51%) and women (49%) and first year students (31%), second year students (38%) and third year students (28%). The second survey was conducted around the end of October 2003 in order to examine the inference of summer job and internship. 178 samples were collected in the second survey. These samples were composed of men (55%) and women (46%) and first year students (35%), second year students (42%) and third year students (23%). Concerning to the occupation preference student answers were not changed dramatically. However, the answer pattern were little standardized after getting to know the reality of lawyer's job market. Legal and social norm of the students were not changed dramatically either. However, a little change were found in the fields of criminal penalty and human rights. We intend a make a comparison with the answer pattern of Japanese law school students after law school system is introduced in 2004.