Russian Legal Education: The Present and the Future

Abstract

The paper examines the issues of modern Russian legal education that developed under the auspices of the Bologna educational system. Since the introduction of the Bologna rules, which Russian innovators interpreted exclusively in a subjective way, domestic education has not improved. On the contrary, all those positive characteristics that education possessed within the Russian borders began to gradually disappear, striving to blindly copy foreign variants. Many problems have appeared in education, mainly due to the departure from Russian cultural values and the attempt to replace them with foreign standards. As a result, educational levels have appeared, which, in theory, require an original educational approach. But such an approach requires saturation of the curriculum material of one level to the detriment of another, which is hardly feasible. It is emphasized that Russian traditions in education, their reanimation, including a return to specialist’s degree, are able to raise the educational level of Russia to the proper height again. The paper briefly comments on the efforts of Russian scientists, mainly professors of the Higher School of Economics, in the field of improving the educational process. The problem of the effectiveness of lecturing in conditions of simplified information acquisition is raised. As the main sketch from this area, the author gives a review of the work by Maria S. Shakaryan, who proposed a certain algorithm for reading introductory lectures.