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Svitlana Hryhorivna Serohina, Serhii Boldyriev, Tatyana Steshenko y Svitlana Fomina
Status and directions of perspective of the development of legal education: analysis of
international experience
that in the modern world, every legal doctrine in a developed and democratic
country, or in states that prefer to approach this status, must contain some
clarication of the high and crucial importance of democracy and the true
rule of law for security and welfare of the state, its citizens, power and legal
mechanisms, state institutions, etc. However, as emphasized above, legal
doctrines must not only point to the obvious superiority of democratic and
legal values, but also reveal exactly how these benets can be achieved.
Thus, modern scientic and educational works and publications in the
eld of law should be based largely not only on the theoretical validity of
the above values and positions, but they should also oer specic ways to
qualitatively solve a problem in domestic or international law (Pistone,
2015). For our part, we believe that concrete ways to increase the eciency
of the domestic legal system, and along with these «engines» of its
development, will be a few things that must be done well, but as soon as
possible, without undue delay. First, we are convinced that the so-called
«legacy» of the former times of authoritarian and totalitarian rule must
be nally overcome in Ukraine. After all, without full fulllment of this
condition, the further path towards the development of domestic legal
education, together with the development of the entire legal eld as a whole,
will be greatly complicated, or impossible at all.
Under the so-called «legacy» of the past, we tend to understand
corruption as the greatest threat not only to the legal sector, but also to
society as a whole. Also a signicant and completely undesirable risk is
the return of the political regime back to authoritarianism (especially to a
one-man dictatorship) (Minow, 2016). Of course, since 2014, Ukraine has
taken many positive and correct steps towards ensuring within the state
the basic principles of democracy, the rule of law and the responsibility
of state and local leadership to citizens, i.e. their accountability to society.
However, according to the ratings of independent Western agencies, there
are still high risks in Ukraine of losing some democratic enrichment due
to the protracted economic crisis and apparent political instability. Due to
these factors, the work on the development of legal education is extremely
dicult, but it can be carried out qualitatively, and therefore must be
carried out as one of the integral elements of the general reform of the state
in a liberal-democratic, legal direction.
In addition, attention should be focused on the need to introduce into
the curriculum for future domestic lawyers techniques and practices that
are successfully taught legal knowledge in the developed countries of the
West. One of the most useful of these programs, we dene the methodology
for solving the so-called «cases» by students, that is, tasks that are similar
to real situations in the eld of practical application of law (Sunstein, 2015).
Given the above, we argue that despite some problems and issues related
to the combination of foreign curricula with domestic specics, they should
be introduced into the legal education of Ukraine.