Digital Transformation of Legal Education: Problems of Developing Competencies

Abstract

In this study the authors examine the problems of development of universal and general professional competencies of future lawyers in context of digitalization of legal education. Both traditional forms of teaching classes and forms of synchronous interaction with the use of remote access technologies are considered herein. Authors traced the relationship between a specific form of teaching and those competencies, the formation of which it is aimed at. Traditional forms of teaching are compared, for example, lecture, oral or written survey, testing, business games, debates, etc. with forms using digital technology. It is concluded that the use of the latter contributes to ensuring the accessibility of the learning process and the involvement of students in this process, significantly expands the possibilities of searching and using information to solve the assigned tasks, allows synchronous interaction between the teacher and the student, and operational control of the level of competence formation. At the same time, the idea is expressed that the digital transformation of education does not mean the displacement of traditional full-time forms of education, since the formation of a number of abilities, skills of future lawyers cannot be developed without live human communication.