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

在法学院制度已经牢固确立的美国，存在着四种不同的法学本科教育模式；即预科模式、文科模式、跨学科模式和职业模式。在2004年引入法律专业研究生院时，一些法律学者和教育工作者强调将文科教育作为本科法律教育的目的。然而，随着专业法学研究生院的“kis- sya课程”的成功申请人数成为评价本科法学院质量的标准，传统的法学教育重新受到欢迎，法学和民法作为文科教育的立场逐渐消失。

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.