Education policy in the field of legal studies: the constraints of development of capable of policy design - Дипломная работа

National Research University Higher School of Economics Department of public policy Master Thesis Education policy in the field of legal studies: the constraints of development of capable of policy design Student: Anna Semenova Scientific supervisor: Prof. Dmitry Zaytsev Moscow 2016 Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Theoretical Framework of Design and Non-Design Processes in Policy Formulation Spaces 1.1 Public Policy, Policy Design and Non-Design 1.2 Policy Formulation Spaces and Spectrum of Design and Non-Design Activities Chapter 2: Russian Legal Education Gaps 2.1 Global Trends of Legal Profession 2.2 Comparison of Russian and European Legal Education Chapter 3: Legal Education Policy Constraints in Russia 3.1 Soviet Union Legacy 3.2 Constraints of Russian Education Policy in Legal Studies in 90-es 3.3 Constraints of Russian Education Policy in Legal Studies in 2000-es Conclusions Bibliography Introduction Policy design is full of ambiguity and complexity. Davis Bobrow (2006) defines policy design as «ubiquitous, necessary and difficult», however, it is surprisingly little studied and understood in the contemporary policy literature. Moreover, the designing of such policy influences, primarily, social welfare of any country. Then, this table is used for analysis of study plans of European and Russian law programs.Thus, despite all changes in the legal market, the future professional must have traditional lawyering skills that could be transformed into necessary competences at place of work. The lawyers can not have in their minds all legal bodies and there is no need in that, because the big part of them will be changed fundamentally in few years after student graduation. Thus, the lawyer should be able to «think like a lawyer» and have the ability for self-education and readiness to update his knowledge all the time.However, lawyer should have some traditional legal skills, such as ability to make a legal research and analysis, in the other words, to collect and systemize information is essential for lawyer. The second lawyering skill is drafting of legal documents such as memorandums, letters, briefs, patent applications.However, technical legal skills are not sufficient for lawyer that wants successful carrier at the global market. Lawyer should have systematic analytical thinking for solving complicated legal problems, he should adopt fast for new and abnormal situation. Lawyer should know how to resolve disputes, for this purpose he needs to have problem-solving skills for participation in ADR and ODR. Commoditization As legal practice become very commercial, the lawyer should know understand how to be attractive at the market for clients, even if he is a solo practitioner not the owner of the firm. The knowledge of some management, business and marketing concepts could be very much useful. The lawyer should know how to be an entrepreneur and develop leadership and team working skills for work in company.As we discussed, the oral communication plays significant role for lawyer. First of all, he should know how to make an oral presentation before the audience. Secondly, dealing with client, he should know how to instill other’s confidence in himself and become a trusted adviser. For this purpose, the lawyer should have knowledge in psychology, rhetoric and the art of persuasion. Moreover, lawyer should speak grammatically correctly, understandable for lay people. The rise of technology The fast development of digital technologies makes lawyer to have diverse computer skills. The computer skills should not be limited the ability to use Internet engines for search and Microsoft office for typing. Lawyer should be ready to learn how to use new legal software and artificial intelligence systems at the work place if he did not do it during study. Internationalization The internationalization is very important for those lawyers that going to work in international firm. For such specialists the knowledge of foreign jurisdictions and different legal families could be essential together with international law and global governance. The study of them in comparative perspective could also help the lawyer to understand the domestic law but from another angle.However, not only international lawyers face challenges of internationalization. Besides the legal knowledge and ability to apply law, in order to work globally, lawyer should acquire the fundaments of global legal literacy that implicates language skills and cultural sensitivity. Most likely, English language skills are essential for modern lawyer, they could help to communicate with English speaking clients and colleagues from abroad. Cultural sensitivity is quite complicated ability, it helps person to communicate in a good manner with foreigner. Usually people that have experienced living abroad have at higher level, thus ex-student that participated in international exchange programs or internship will be in more favorable position. Specializat