At the Beginning of the Formation and Development of Legal Education at Baikal State University (to the 30th Anniversary of Legal Education at BSU)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the history and traditions of legal education in Baikal State University from the time of the Institute of National Economy (1990) to the present day. It makes a disclosure on the contribution to the training of lawyer-founders of legal science development at the University: doctors of legal sciences, professors G.S. Gaverov, V.I. Shikanov, V.A. Semeusov, V.Y. Rybalskaya. The transformation of university law schools under the guidance of leading university law scientists is shown. The contribution of the university to the training of highly qualified specialists of lawyers — candidates and doctors of legal sciences is presented. It reveals priority directions of research work of legal departments, conditioned by the need to improve legislation in a changing economy, development of forms and methods of combating crime. The scale of publishing activity of representatives of law faculties is shown. It characterizes scientific-representative events, where new ideas of legal science were born and the eff orts of not only scientists in various branches of legal science, but also law enforcement officials — representatives of legislative, judicial and law enforcement authorities were consolidated, as well as representatives of business structures. Today, the university still plays an important role in the discussion and solution of the most conceptual, key tasks of scientific and applied nature for Russia and its regions, which allows to take into account the challenges of modern scientific and technical development in the training of future lawyers.