Requirements for teaching law students

Abstract

Aim of the research: The aim of the article was to describe the external and internal learning conditions in relation to law students, stressing that these requirements are influenced by an additional condition concerning the specificity of the subject. These requirements have been referred to the appropriate teaching methods.

 Methodology: The paper adopts a dogmatic legal method for the legal acts described, and several groups of law students were observed and pedagogical literature studied, and a qualitative research of the factors which build high standards of teaching from  the law student’s perspective were analyzed.

 Results: The external requirements of teaching not originating from students include conditions resulting from the specificity of the subject, from legal acts concerning teaching in general and the teaching of law students, established by state authorities and internal authorities of the university, as well as orders of superiors and moral rules. The external conditions of teaching from students include knowledge, psychological conditions, attitude towards the subject and the teacher, the need for freedom and conduct and acceptance, motivation, stress, aggression, personality attitudes and mental illness, physical conditions: memory opportunities, opportunities associated with concentration, thinking, quoting, with the way of individual learning, social conditions, family conditions, job conditions and cultural conditions of students. Internal requirements depend on the teacher and are a mirror image of external conditions from students.

 Conclusions: recognition of the requirements for teaching law students with reference to appropriate teaching methods is a step towards perfect teaching and counteracting teachers' professional burn-out. In addition, all these teaching requirements affect the assessment process.