. Current issues of legal education reform in Ukraine.

Abstract

This article is aimed at studying issues related to the reform of legal education in Ukraine, taking into account the legal regulation of this area of state activity. Since 2004, since the adoption of the national program of adaptation of Ukrainian legislation to the legislation of the European Union, a process has begun to bring the provisions of national legislation into European standards in order for Ukraine to meet the third Copenhagen and Madrid criteria for membership in the European Union. One of the areas of implementation of this Program is legal reform in Ukraine, which affects the formation of common approaches to creating a regulatory framework for training qualified professionals and creating appropriate conditions for the institutional, scientific and educational process of adaptation of Ukrainian legislation. In addition, the ways of implementing the National Strategy for the Development of Education in Ukraine until 2021 and the National Doctrine of Education Development need special attention. Many domestic scholars have paid attention to the issue of legal education reform in different years. However, this area is becoming increasingly important due to the development of society as a whole and the growing demand for the legal profession, which is reflected in quantitative indicators. Thus, according to the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, in 2021, in the ranking of specialties by the number of applications, the specialty «Law» takes second place. In 2021, 68,124 applications were submitted for this specialty. As a result of the study, the problematic issues related to bringing the regulatory framework to a single model, which must meet both European standards and the Constitution of Ukraine, were identified. Given the demand for legal education, both in Ukraine and abroad, its regulation should be paid attention in the first place.