Practice-oriented Methods in the Educational Process of Law Universities

Abstract

The development of a modern society and Russia's accession to the Bologna process have resulted in changing the requirements set down for training, including the field of jurisprudence. The article analyses the problems of training lawyers in conditions of transition to the Bologna system and changing requirements imposed on a graduate of a law university. One of the main modern requirements in legal education amounts to the development of a creative, proactive specialist possessing organizational skills and an ability to put new achievements of scientific thought into practice. The educational process subjected to reforms requires changes in the system of assessment of student knowledge and skills. The author suggests that the practice-oriented teaching methods should be distinguished from practice-oriented elements implemented in assessment tools. The author submits her own understanding of the system of assessment tools. The author concludes that today the forms of control should become a kind of continuation of teaching methods; students' scientific research is a way to meet modern requirements to the educational results of graduates of law universities.