Value-based education of lawyers: challenges to the maintenance of justice

Abstract

The value-based approach to professional activities is stressed in the documents of the United Nations and the European Union, which regulate the training and conduct of lawyers. Nevertheless, the aspects of value-based education heavily make the way to the study programs of lawyers’ training. The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the necessity of value-based education of future lawyers and examine the issues and opportunities of the value of justice education. The results of the research support the assumption that in order to ensure the rule of law and social sustainability, law cannot be taught separately from the education of justice and other values. In training future lawyers, not only the value of justice should be theoretically explored in the ethical and legal context, but also the attitudes and daily practices of the lawyer, which can lead to the implementation of justice, should be trained.