Legal education in the contemporary world is changing. The main influences are linked to developments in transportation and communication and the enmeshing of diverse economies embraced by globalization. Law schools confront more mobile and more ambitious students who wish to experience different jurisdictional practices, to serve the increasingly global business community and to be more competitive. This research examines the modifications required in legal education as a result of globalization with specific reference to law schools in the BRICS countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China.Research on higher education, and legal education in particular, has been growing in recent years, yet there is still a gap in the study and comparison of the specifics of legal education within the BRICS countries. This research makes an attempt to analyze and contrast the current goals, objectives, structure and quality of higher legal education in Brazil, Russia, India and China. The specifics of law schools have been studied over the past twenty years in correlation with economic, cultural and education trends in BRICS and globally.Based on research literature, practitioner literature and legislative sources, this paper outlines common and special features of lawyer training in BRICS. The prime similarity of the legal education systems in BRICS are global education trends and the influence of the U.S. and UK education systems. Each BRICS country experienced an “explosion” in the popularity of legal education and, consequently, the urgent need to reform the education process in order to attain better quality and affordability. The result of these reforms, taking place in each country from 1950 to today, has become the growing differentiator of the educational institutions, turning them into “elite” and “mass” law schools.The facets of legal education in Brazil, Russia, India and China are attributed to their national policies as well as the historical development of the educational institutions and their perception of what specific lawyer skills and competencies are demanded by the legal market and national population. We conclude that the structure and quality of legal education as well as the requirements and monitoring tools vary in each country. These are dependent on several factors: the specific country’s ideology, its economic development, its proximity to an “Eastern” or “Western” model, its ability to learn from foreign education systems and its attempts at self-identification in the global educational space.
The establishment of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR is connected with the unification of the judicial system, the renewal of the legal system and the first codification of republican legislation, due to the proclamation of a new economic policy and strict implementation of the principle of legality in all spheres of public life. In this regard, the Supreme Court of the RSFSR was entrusted with the most important function of ensuring the implementation of the principle of legality in the law enforcement activities of the republican courts. It was implemented through the consideration of cases by way of appeal in cassation and review of cases in a supervisory manner, through judicial explanations, interpretation of law, as well as a result of the reclamation of any cases that are in the proceedings of other courts of the Republic. The paper examines the little-studied practice of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR as a court of first instance. The material and procedural law of the Soviet period is analyzed to determine the categories of cases within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR in the first instance. The first procedural codes (Civil Procedure and Criminal Procedure of 1923) outlined the judicial activity of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR as the first instance in both civil and criminal cases. In this regard, it is stated both the generic jurisdiction of cases, due, in particular, to counter-revolutionary, economic or official crimes, and exceptional, determined by cases of national importance. In the future, during the period of updating legislation dictated by the new codification of law, only exclusive jurisdiction is noted in the activities of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR, predetermined by cases of special complexity or special social significance, including those related to encroachment on state and ideological interests. The political resonance that accompanied the consideration of such cases ensured the achievement of the preventive goal of the «show trial».
This article traces the history of forest legislation and timber export from the Soviet Union to this day. The author studied legal acts and historical documents to analyze the possibility of using positive historical experience in the current forest law. This analysis, as well as interdisciplinary and systematic approaches, made it possible to study certain aspects of Russian export activities. This publication represents a theoretical and practical foundation for further research that will cover pre-revolutionary, Soviet, and Russian forestry legislation in the field of timber export. The author believes that contemporary timber export needs the same methods that were applied in the Soviet Union. Their essence was in the strict control, a clear structure of authorized bodies, and various restrictive measures.
The relevance of the topic is determined by recent transitional process in higher legal education, aiming at finding its new directions and role of legal professionals in a changing world. Quality of higher legal education is one of the crucial problems in each state of the BRICS block. The objective of this article is to make a comparative analysis of legal education quality in the BRICS countries. In plethora of research literature related to higher education in general and legal education specifically in selected BRICS countries, there is a difficulty to find a comprehensive comparative analysis of the quality of legal training across educational institutions in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The authors identify common and specific features of legal training in the BRICS countries. The common drivers for legal education are global influence of the American education system, “explosive” growth in the popularity of legal education, urgent needs to reform educational process and its quality, growing differentiation of educational institutions into “elite” and “mass”, with a special role of each type of university in society. The peculiarities of legal education in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are primarily in the structure of educational institutions and bodies controlling quality of educational training; solutions to the borrowing educational experience and attempts at self-identification in the global educational space. The problems of legal education have been studied in dynamics over the past 20 years holistically (complex analysis). In their conclusions, the authors propose some results of a comparative legal analysis related to quality of higher legal education. In particular, they outline the leading role of the government in setting requirements for the content of educational process and lawyer’s competencies; the increasing role of employers, public organizations and students in establishing requirements for law schools. The results of the research can be used both for academic studies and for practical purposes in reforming BRICS legal education.
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