Dilemmas of Legal Education in the Context of Digitalization

Introduction. The article discusses the controversial issues of teaching future lawyers new digital technologies used in law, shows various models of their development and application in practice, as well as the problems of improving curricula in order to intelligently combine traditional legal disciplines and new subjects in the process of teaching, designed to form students' basic knowledge and skills in the field of legal technologies, business, data analysis and security, the ability to collaborate and apply knowledge in different disciplines, etc. The author analyzes various points of view of Russian and foreign researchers on the challenges of transformation of legal education in the context of digitalization, on the modern profile of a lawyer and elements of the "roadmap" of technological innovations introduced into legal education.

Materials and methods. The methodological basis of the study was the following general scientific and special methods of cognition of legal phenomena and processes in the field of jurisprudence, digital law and the organization of education in a higher legal educational institution: the method of analysis; the method of synthesis of socio-legal phenomena; comparative legal method; formal logical method; forecasting method Research results. As a result of the analysis, it was revealed that at the state level it is necessary to develop a strategy for the development of digital technologies in legal educational institutions; to determine which disciplines future lawyers should study today, which forms and methods of mastering digital technologies should have priority in the next decade.

Discussion and conclusions. The results of the research contribute to the development of the emerging science of digital law and the organization of legal education in order to master new digital technologies used in legal activities in the educational process.

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