Abstract
This paper aims to provide in-depth analysis of legal education in Bulgaria since it is of paramount significance for the creation of well-trained lawyers for the state, local authorities, as well as the judicial system. The historical method was used to examine the system of the Bulgarian legal education that has been developing for about 130 years and has gone through numerous difficulties.The comparative and juxtaposition approach were utilsed in the research to help in making inferences about the present situation regarding legal education in Bulgaria. Now there are nine law schools that deepen international co-operation and adapt their curricula to respond to the changes in national and European legislation.It takes five years to receive a legal education in Bulgaria and the process ends with a Master’s degree in Law (LLM). There is no Bachelor degree in Law (LLB in other European countries) in our country.All in all, the main objective of this article is to look at the Bulgarian legal education in the past and nowadays. The paper attempts to show that legal education in Bulgaria is faced with diverse challenges of the new millennium. The process of globalization as well as the recent situation with COVID-19 make it necessary to add information technologies and distant learning forms to legal education.
Highlights
The comparative and juxtaposition approach were utilsed in the research to help in making inferences about the present situation regarding legal education in Bulgaria
The impossibility to answer the needs of professionally educated jurists, administrators and judges, who at those early years of the newlyliberated Bulgarian state obtained their legal education in Russian and West European universities, provoked one of the first Ministers of Justice Petko Karavelov to propose the idea of opening a law school with a twoyear period of study in Sofia “to answer the tremendous need of judges, https://kulawr.msal.ru/
Legal education in Bulgaria needs to continue to meet the challenges of the new millennium
Summary
The impossibility to answer the needs of professionally educated jurists, administrators and judges, who at those early years of the newlyliberated Bulgarian state obtained their legal education in Russian and West European universities, provoked one of the first Ministers of Justice Petko Karavelov to propose the idea of opening a law school with a twoyear period of study in Sofia “to answer the tremendous need of judges, lawyers and administrators with university education.”[2]. The note stipulated that a Bulgarian Higher School (University) should be opened and it would include legal sciences. When in October 1920 the Free University (Balkan Middle East Institute) was founded as the second higher school and the first economic university, both Russian professors contributed a lot to the development of this second center of legal education in Bulgaria. Despite the fact that for many scholars the established decision-making mechanism violated the academic principles and traditions and subordinated the faculty to an external body, the Unified Center for the Sciences of the State and Law was an example of fruitful cooperation in the field of judicial science. Until 1991, there was only one law faculty in Bulgaria — at Sofia University “Kliment Ohridski”
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