Keyword: «legal education»

The paper is devoted to the features of legal higher education in the countries of Romano-Germanic (the FRG) and Anglo-Saxon (the USA) legal system. The authors give the comparative analyses of the rules, teaching methods, programs of study in the juridical colleges and universities. The conclusions are made, concerning the application of some elements of these systems in the legal education in the Russian Federation.

The urgency of the problem is caused by the results of sociological polls confirming the low percentage of employment in the specialty of law schools graduates, as well as by a significant number of scientific works on the issue under study, publications in electronic and print media. The purpose of this study is to identify the features and problems of vocational guidance work with students of law schools. The achievement of this goal is supposed, first, through understanding the essence of vocational guidance work with students, and secondly, through determining the main methods of increasing the students’ interest to the profession they are going to get, and also through considering concrete practical examples of vocational guidance work. The key research methods are sociological, modeling, analytical, synthesis method, as well as some methods of legal science theoretical comprehension. The main result of the study is the identification of vocational guidance work key features, characteristic exclusively for law schools and faculties. This scientific work will be useful to both theoretical and practical workers whose activity is connected with jurisprudence or pedagogical sciences; it can also be used for further research and development, including students’ projects.

The relevance of the studied problem is due to the disappointing statistics of crimes and offenses committed by minors, and more frequent high-profile crimes with manifestations of cruelty not characteristic of them, as well as a significant number of scientific and other publications on the issue being studied, and publications in electronic and print media. We have no a unified approach to legal education in Russia now; students of some educational organizations, at the initiative of regional authorities or teachers, study the basics of legal disciplines more thoroughly in comparison with other students who study law only within specific topics. This approach puts students in unequal positions, it does not contribute to crime prevention, as well as to increasing the general legal socialization of the younger generation. In this regard, it seems appropriate to consider the possibility of developing a unified concept of legal education in Russia. The purpose of this study is to identify existing problems in the implementation of legal education in Russia and to offer recommendations for reducing their negative impact. It is assumed that the goal will be achieved as a result of the analysis of existing trends and measures of legal socialization in Russia; understanding of the historical experience of legal socialization; definition of approaches to the implementation of legal socialization abroad; studying the opinions of students and teachers on the need for legal socialization, and existing problems by means of questionnaires. The main result of the scientific research is to identify the existing problems of implementing legal socialization in Russia and to offer recommendations for reducing the negative impact of its implementation problems at the present stage in Russia, in particular, specific measures that may be included in the Unified Concept of Legal Education. Based on the results of questionnaire answers of students in grades 8–11 of the Sverdlovsk region educational institutions, the main problems in the study of legal disciplines were identified, the main of which was the students' awareness of a lack of legal knowledge. During the study, synthesis, sociological, and analytical methods were used. This study will be useful for both theoretical and practical workers, in particular, for the teachers of junior and senior grades, staffs in the field of education, developing educational programs and standards, law enforcement officers working with minors, and it may also be used for further research and development.

The article discusses the specific features of legal education in the UK, its historical origin and development trends. It gives the information about the stages of student training in legal education. The authors reveal the areas of responsibility of different types of lawyers in the UK such as a barrister, a solicitor, a legal adviser.

The article discusses topical problems in the sphere of values and legal education of youth in the Russian Federation.