Some Questions Pertaining to the Study of Government in the System of Legal Education

Abstract

Courses in government represent different proportions of the curriculum in the system of legal education in various countries. In bourgeois states, it is usually only the public (constitutional) law of their own country and so-called "political science," often amounting to several years in the curriculum (as in Canada, Ethiopia, etc.), that are studied as general disciplines. The object of political science includes, specifically, a comparative study of the political and legal systems of the world (sometimes a number of subdisciplines are combined with constitutional law to comprise a general discipline — constitutional law and political institutions, as is the case in France, for example); but, basically, "political science" goes far beyond the confines of the study of government. In the bourgeois countries, the other subjects in the field of government are handled as special or elective courses, but their scope is very limited. Legal education as such, in the system of training personnel for the administration of justice, is limited essentially to the study of legal institutions. Higher educational institutions and departments of political science are used in the USA, England, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, India, etc., to train higher and middle-rank officials.