Comparative Analysis of the Concepts of Legal Education Development in the Eurasian Economic Union Member States

The article presents a comparative analysis of the main directions of legal education improvement and development in the member states of international integration associations, such as the Eurasian Economic Union (hereinafter - EAEU). It is shown that ensuring mobility and the necessary quality of future lawyers’ training is a priority of the plans for the development of legal education in the EAEU member states. The comparison of interaction mechanisms between universities and employers, programmes and technologies for training future lawyers, the participants’ vision of the trends in reforming the educational field and its legal regulation is given. The necessity of studying the EAEU member states practices on reforming legal education is noted. The special attention is paid to the approaches choice to the universal requirements development and the convergence of educational standards in legal specialties. It is concluded that the implementation of legal education programmes in the EAEU countries is practice-oriented and aimed at deeping integration processes in the field of legal education, contribute to the humanization and democratization of society which expands the boundaries of the national and international educational projects.