Study on the Research and Educational Methodology of Civil Law as a Liberal Arts Subject

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In the United States, where the Law School system has been firmly established, there exist four different models of undergraduate legal education ; namely, Pre-law model, Liberal arts model, Inter-disciplinary model, and Vocational model. At the time of introducing professional graduate school of law in 2004, some legal scholars and educators emphasized the ideal of libera-art education as a purpose of undergraduate legal education. However, as the number of successful applicants of "Kisyu-Sya course" of a professional graduate school of law became the criteria of evaluating the quality of undergraduate school of law, so traditional legal education regained its popularity and the standpoint of legal study and civil law as a liberal-art education has faded away.