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Yaselskaya Veronica V.

 Tomsk State University (Tomsk, Russian Federation). 

NEW TEACHING METHODS FOR INCREASING THE QUALITY OF TRAINING OF LAW 
STUDENTS IN CRIMINAL PROCEDURE. 
Keywords:

 higher legal education, innovative teaching methods, criminal procedure, adversarial prin-

ciple. 
 
The effectiveness of the work of specialists in the sphere of criminal procedure (judges, investigators, 
prosecutors and advocates) is in many respects pre-determined by the quality of their professional 
training. 
The criminal procedure in Russia has fundamentally changed during the past decade. The adversarial princi-
ple has been declared in the new Criminal Procedural Code (CPC) of the Russian Federation (RF) to be the 
main principle of not only the stage of a trial (part 3, Article 15 of the CPC of the RF) but of the criminal 
procedure as a whole. This principle didn’t exist in Soviet Russia (except the Jury trial). The order of the trial 
had an accusatorial character and the court was the most active part in the trial. This activity of the court 
compensated the activities of parties to a trial and made the involvement of the prosecutor and advocate in a 
trial rather formal. All these led to negative consequences, i.e. to the accusatorial character of the court. The 
CPC of the RF changed the court procedure radically: parties, not the court became, active; they presented 
evidence, participated in its examination, and defended their positions in the case. The only function of the 
court in an adversarial procedure is adjudication. 
In practice the situation hasn’t fundamentally changed; the number of acquittal judgments is relatively 
small. The advocates, prosecutors and investigators are not ready for the adversarial procedure. The 
corresponding skills (ability to discuss, conflict resolution, etc.) should be formed in the course of 
University education. But for the last 50 years this process has undergone little change. The traditional 
forms of education prevail: it’s impossible to form and master the professional skills of a lawyer within 
the framework of lectures and seminars. In order to train highly specialized lawyers who are ready to 
take part in the adversarial procedure, minimize the number of possible mistakes, and find solutions to 
complicated practical tasks, it’s necessary to use and develop the existing teaching methods and to 
develop new inter disciplinary special courses covering criminal procedure, criminalistics, psychology, 
conflict resolution studies, legal ethics and pedagogy as well as to introduce innovative teaching meth-
ods ( role plays, cases, etc.) aimed at the development of definite professional qualities, skills, and 
competences, which are necessary for future lawyers.  

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