The topicality of the research is stipulated by the challenges the legal education faces due to the controversial trends toward globalization and national legal system preservation, toward comprehensive legal training on the one hand, and the market increasing demand for narrow-field practitioners. The aims of the research are to study law students' perceptions regarding teaching/learning formats of studies in progress, to follow the development of students' perceptions regarding their legal studies at different levels of higher education. The research methods included theoretical analysis, law students' survey, statistics data processing. The empirical studies included two surveys: the entry survey of second year students of LLB and the same students' survey when they have moved to the second year of their master studies. The research enhances the awareness of the specific characteristics of public international law teaching within national system of legal culture and its values. The empirical data contributes to teachers' understanding of students' needs and raises awareness of learner-centered education within legal domain. The article had both theoretical and practical value as the theoretical background and the proposed methodology can be applied to developing training courses for legal faculty.
Having started at the universal level with the idea of protecting lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders and intersex persons (LGBTI) from violent acts of discrimination, the United Nations Organization (UN) has quietly moved to propagating LGBTI way of life as normal and entitled even to family rights. The Council of Europe (CoE) is committed to promote and ensure respect for the human rights and dignity of every individual. The CoE has adopted a number of texts on combating discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation. The article considers the contemporary stance of the UN and CoE law in respect of traditional values and human rights of LGBTI. It also reveals the role of the Russian Federation in promoting the protection of traditional values, among which the primary significance belongs to the concept of traditional family. The paper consists of introduction, literature and methodology review, discussion parts elaborating on human rights of LGBTI and traditional values, respectively, illustrating the arguments and conclusions of the authors and the part, devoted to the efforts and activities undertaken by Russia in the sphere under discussion as one of the key states contesting against the promotion of human rights of LGBTI at the expense of traditional values' protection.
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