NORMS AND RULES OF ETHICAL BEHAVIOR AND ACADEMIC INTEGRITY AS NECESSARY COMPONENTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF LEGAL EDUCATION IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the research of norms and rules of ethical behavior and academic integrity as a necessary component of the development of legal education. The article emphasizes that the norms and rules of ethical behavior and integrity of such representatives of legal professions as: lawyers, prosecutors and judges; testify that at the level of legislative prescriptions, the ethical and virtuous behavior is their professional duty. Regarding the norms and rules of behavior, the legislator assigns their definition and specification to the competence of self-government bodies – collegiate governing bodies, which exercising their authorities at the level of local rule-making, detail and specify the specified rules of behavior. It is emphasized that such norms establish the rules of behavior, but they contain in their content concepts that do not have a clear normative definition, such as: integrity, good faith, etc. To some degree, this makes it difficult to evaluate the behavior of representatives of legal professions concerning the compliance with the norms and rules of ethics and integrity, because these concepts are evaluative. It is argued that the conducted analysis of norms and rules of ethical behavior and integrity of representatives of the legal profession is important for understanding the role of norms and rules of ethical behavior and academic integrity in formation of professional qualities of a future lawyer. During the education students (future lawyers) must not only observe the ethical norms and rules of academic integrity in their behavior of the institution of higher education, but also learn to "build" their lives, in particular everyday life, based on these norms and rules. Because ethics, high moral behavior, integrity, etc. is a necessary condition for realizing one's abilities to work in the legal profession. It is separately emphasized that the development of legal education in Ukraine is primarily aimed at training such specialists in law, who in their professional activities will contribute to increasing public trust to the state. In particular by strengthening and fortification of supremacy of the law. Achieving this goal is impossible without the formation of sustainable skills of ethical, respectable and decent behavior by students of legal education. The formation of such behavior is carried out not only due to the conviction of the need to observe generally recognized standards of morality and ethics, but also due to the regulatory influence of local norms and rules of ethics and academic integrity of higher education institutions on the behavior of students.