The Role of Legal Education in Shaping the Legal Culture of the Future: Strategies and Prospects for Development

Abstract

Aims: The purpose of the article was to highlight the current guidelines of the legal education segment in the context of forming a strategy for the development of legal culture in society. The article focused on the educational and legal principles which determine the level of legal awareness, legal education. Study design: The study was focused on the educational process subjects who receive professional legal education or acquire legal education skills for non-legal professionals. Place and Duration of Study: The research focused on the educational and legal environment in general in terms of strategy and prospects for the development of legal education and awareness. Methodology: The research methodology was focused on the use of general scientific methods and special methods of scientific and legal discourse. The analysis was the key rationalist research method, and online surveys occupied an empirical niche in the methodology of the given scientific research. The scientific novelty of the study is focused on determining the level of support for the use of the principles of legal culture in the educational process (both for legal professionals and non-legal professionals). Results: The results of the study indicated the dominance of the views of students of different levels and different specialties, which point to the need to include legal norms in educational and legal training or education. Among the surveyed representatives of the educational community, more than 90% of respondents had a positive attitude towards the process of establishing legal culture in the educational environment. Conclusion: Thus, legal education is an integral component of the formation of legal culture in both the individual and social dimensions. General legal competence in the modern educational and legal sense implies not only adherence to practice-oriented legal principles but also extrapolation of moral and legal guidelines to the worldview of the world.