Legal education: challenges of the time and ways to overcome them

Abstract

Background. Modern Russian legal education is at a turning point. In this regard, the choice of further ways of its development is of great importance, which determines the relevance of the research topic. The purpose of the study is, based on our own experience and many years of work in law schools, to show the current state of higher legal education in Russia, to reveal its contradictions and to suggest ways to overcome them. Materials and methods. Regulatory documents regulating the field of your education in general and the field of legal education in particular were used. The practice of organizing legal education in the Russian Federation is analyzed. The following research methods were used: historical and legal, logical, analysis and synthesis, empirical methods of description. Results. The article presents the concept of reforming higher legal education and ways to overcome its problems and shortcomings. Conclusions. It has been established that the Bologna process, as far as legal education is concerned, was a complete failure. Russia has moved away from classical legal education, which has turned from elite to mass. With the reduction in the number of law schools and faculties, the problems of legal education have not been solved. They continue to remain in the content of the educational process, and in the status of the teacher, and in educational standards, and in the competency-based approach, and in paid education, and in distance learning. As a result, the current state of legal education cannot fully satisfy the needs of employers. It is on the verge of reform. And whatever path is chosen in its development will be the future legal support for the socio-economic and political development of Russia.

Keywords

• legal education
• bachelor’s
• master’s
• specialty
• federal state educational standards
• competency-based approach
• electronic information educational environmen