Ewha Law School Produces Nine Newly-appointed Public Prosecutors, Ranking in Top Place among Domestic Law Schools
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- Date2022.05.16
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Ewha Law School Produces Nine Newly-appointed Public Prosecutors, Ranking in Top Place among Domestic Law Schools
Nine graduates from the 11th cohort of students at Ewha Law School were appointed as new public prosecutors in the “2022 Public Prosecutor Recruitment.” The total of nine appointees marks an all-time-high record, ranking Ewha Law School in first place among law schools nationwide.
On May 2 (Mon.), the Ministry of Justice appointed 67 new public prosecutors among those who passed the 11th bar exam. After completing an education and training course necessary to fulfill their duties as prosecutors for about nine months at the Judicial Research and Training Institute, the newly-appointed prosecutors will be dispatched to prosecutors’ offices to perform their prosecutorial duties in earnest.
Moreover, on May 1 (Sun.), two graduates from the 11th cohort of students at Ewha Law School were appointed as Supreme Court judicial researchers, and six graduates from the 10th and 11th cohorts of students at the law school were appointed as law clerks. Eight out of the 100 newly-appointed judicial researchers and law clerks who graduated from law schools this year hail from Ewha Law School, thereby ranking it in fifth place among law schools across the nation. In particular, this year marks the first time in which Ewha Law School produced judicial researchers, while also producing the highest number of judicial researchers among law schools. In addition, Ewha Law School also produced two out of the five newly-appointed judicial researchers who will serve at the Supreme Court.
Ewha Womans University founded the Department of Law in 1950, the world’s first College of Law for women in 1996 and Ewha Law School in 2009, thereby positioning itself as Korea’s top female judicial training institute. Ewha’s College of Law has recorded many unprecedented “firsts” in the history of the legal profession in Korea, including producing Korea’s first female lawyer, constitutional scholar, constitutional judge and Minister of Government Legislation, and continued this successful tradition to date by producing the top scorers in the 1991 and 2013 judicial examinations, and ranking fourth in Korea for the number of those who passed the judicial examination between 2015 and 2017. This trend has continued even after the introduction of the law school system and conversion of the judicial examination into the bar exam. Ewha Law School has remained in the top class of 25 law schools nationwide for bar exam pass rates, and produced a total of 24 judges from 2015 to date, which is the third largest number among law schools in Korea.