Methods of teaching private law

In the process of teaching law students some special aspects of teaching separate legal disciplines are not always taken into account. Teaching methods in pedagogy are defined as a way of achieving a specific goal; a set of ways for expedient carrying out of some work; a branch of pedagogical science which explores regularities, rules, techniques and methods of training, implementation of educational activities. In modern legal literature advances in application of methods for teaching future lawyers is associated with the introduction in educational process of interactive educational technologies. Therefore, in law, it is reasonable to use the theory of paired legal concepts. A law student should have an understanding of the origins, form, development and termination of use of a separate rule of law and law in general. Such legal thinking underlies the theory of paired concepts and their vertical and horizontal linkages. The theory of paired concepts and their vertical and horizontal linkages is the cornerstone of such legal understanding. When organizing interactive sessions it is important to take into account career guidance of students and their number. Interactive techniques can be introduced in magistracy, the curriculum of which places emphasis on practical training in small groups. The teaching process should concentrate on educating students to have the ability to anticipate changes in legislation, to take them into account in future work. Students are taught law, their lecturers explain them the form, content of standard requirements, but they miss possibilities of formation of a core of their legal consciousness -this is "genuflection" before the law, its steady observance. It is important for a lawyer to promise and to steadily observe the state and personal secret, to be law-abiding, to respect the rights and freedoms of persons with which he has to communicate not only at work (duty), but also in everyday life. All these principles should be imbued in law students throughout their training in university and it is appropriate to include them in all the curricula for each discipline. But this is not enough. It is necessary to reveal the level of the acquired legal consciousness in some forms. One of them can be a "lawyer's oath" which a graduate should not read but consciously, solemnly and publicly pronounce before a corresponding state exam, for example, on the theory of law, or before the defence of a graduation work. Unfortunately, considering the judicial practice given in the press, now it is difficult to name a type of a crime, not to mention misconduct, which would not have committed by the persons with legal education. In the process of certification, accreditation of legal university the auditors should take into account the administrative and judicial practice of prosecuting its graduates during a particular period of time, not to mention the offences committed by students even during their training period. It must become one of the most important criteria for evaluation of efficiency of modern legal education.

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