RUSSIAN EXPERIENCE IN TRAINING LAWYERS FOR THE ECONOMY IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: FROM COMMERCE TO THE NATIONAL ECONOMY

The article investigates the domestic experience of teaching disciplines aimed at training lawyers to support economic (trade, economic, entrepreneurial) activities. Attention is paid to the formation of legal education in Russian universities of the XVIII-XIX century, the features of training lawyers in this period. The Genesis of business law based on pre-revolutionary trade law and Soviet economic law is revealed. The training courses aimed at the formation of future lawyers of professional knowledge for legal support of economic activity, the teaching of which preceded the introduction of the curriculum of business law and related disciplines. The question of the forms of training of lawyers used in the pre-revolutionary and Soviet period is touched upon. The formation of external studies in the field of legal education is shown. The role of correspondence training of lawyers is revealed. Based on the data of the author’s sociological research, attention is paid to the advantages and disadvantages of distance learning. The conclusion is made about the necessity of synthesis of the accumulated experience of distance learning and modern technologies to overcome the problems of distance training of lawyers for business.

legal education, trade law, economic law, business law, commercial law, external studies, distance learning, online learning