CURRENT CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHER LEGAL EDUCATION

The article discusses the problem of improving the quality of legal education and its compliance with modern challenges arising in the context of the development of the information society. The main trends and processes that need to be considered in the organization of higher legal education, and as a result, new requirements are presented to the training of a lawyer in modern conditions, in particular to the educational process and the content of educational programs. Such characteristics of legal training, as flexibility and variability, interdisciplinary, multistage, continuity, profiling, personalization, innovative and scientific orientation, practical oriented legal education are considered. The need for adequate transformation of legal education using all the achievements of information technologies is substantiated. The impact on the legal education of the trends in globalization and internationalization is investigated. Qualities of a lawyer have been defined, which come to the fore alongside classical professional skills.

The Practice and the Pressure to Progress

As one of the most traditional professions, the practice of law has been slower than most to adapt to technological advances and recognize the impact on the changing nature of work for attorneys. Only two state bar associations currently require continuing legal education in technology. New York's bar association has recommended mandatory training in cybersecurity; however, it would comprise only 1 credit within the Ethics & Professionalism Continuing Legal Education (CLE) requirements. This chapter will explore the negative “domino effect” that disregarding or underestimating the power of technology in both legal education and practice can have on access, diversity, and ultimately justice. By presenting the evidence here, perhaps the profession through its many and varied institutions and organizations can finally turn against the tide of tradition. The profession and its oversight bodies must look farther back in the pathway to practice to re-imagine legal education and embrace that which is now possible through technology and innovative teaching and learning methods.

Boekbesprekings: DJ Mcquoid-Mason (ed): Street Law and Public Legal Education: A Collection of Best Practices from around the World in Honour of Ed O’Brien

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Antyautorytarna edukacja prawnicza

The article is divided into two parts. In the first part, I present the main assumptions of foundationalism and, using selected examples from general reflection on law, reconstruct related strategies of justifying claims. Then, I discuss the anti-foundationalist method of justifying the universalism of human rights. Referring to the arguments of Hannah Arendt and Alessandro Ferrara, I give the example of the Holocaust as the so-called point of no return, whose exemplary validity justifies the idea of human rights without the need to refer to substantive human dignity. In the second part of the article, I use the anti-foundationalist argument to build a conception of anti-authoritarian legal education. The proposed concept of education based on a collaborative, democratic, nonhierarchical, and pluralistic discussion of historical examples should complement traditional legal education.

An Appraisal of Legal Education: Challenges & Prospects

This research is designed to understand the principles of legal education in Pakistan, the existing scenario, and the problems associated with it. It relates future trends needed for the improvement of higher legal education and is an effort to represent the present illustration of legal education in Pakistan and the encountered challenges. It examines the prospects and developments that can be proposed to fortify the essence of this system. Moreover, the predicaments regarding modern legal education and its foundations have been outlined along with proposals for the enhancement in the legal education system that directly influences the quality of to be lawyers. In a nutshell, this article provides explanations to enhance professional capacity in the domain of legal schooling particularly focusing on the context of Pakistan-specific regulatory bodies.

THE METHODOLOGY OF TEACHING CIVIL PROCEDURE (MEMORIES OF MIKHAIL KONSTANTINOVICH TREUSHNIKOV)

The article is dedicated to the memory of Mikhail Konstantinovich Treushnikov, Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Scientist, Head of the Department of Civil Procedure of the Law Faculty of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. The article analyzes the methodology of teaching civil procedure, focuses on the methodology of lecturing, seminars, and game processes. Mikhail Konstantinovich paid great attention to the methodology of teaching civil procedure. The author of the article offers a study of the section “Methods of Teaching Law” from the book “Creative Search in the Science of Civil Procedure Law” by M.K. Treushnikov published in 2020. This section presents methodological recommendations on how to prepare and give lectures for newly elected judges at the republican training courses for legal officers on two subjects: “Preparation of civil cases for trial is a mandatory stage of the process”, “Types of evidence in civil proceedings”. The other two articles in this section are devoted to different issues. One is devoted to the methodology of teaching law in non-law universities (on the example of Moscow State University), the other is written on the basis of a speech “Traditions and Innovations in Legal Education” at the conference meeting of the heads of the departments of social sciences of the Lomonosov Moscow State University on 16 February 2007 and shows the role of departments in solving the problems of legal education.