Lawyer’s emotional intelligence and professional ethics development: aspects of the widespread introduction of legal clinic

Andrii M. Kuchuk; Bohdan I. Andrusyshyn; Yevhen V. Bilozorov; Olha V. Minchenko; Liudmyla A. Filianina

doi:10.21744/lingcure.v5nS2.1395

Authors

Andrii M. Kuchuk
kuchuk.a@ust-hk.com.cn
Sumy State Pedagogical University, Sumy, Ukraine
Bohdan I. Andrusyshyn National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Kyiv, Ukraine
Yevhen V. Bilozorov National Academy of Internal Affairs, Kyiv, Ukraine
Olha V. Minchenko National Academy of Internal Affairs, Kyiv, Ukraine
Liudmyla A. Filianina University of Customs and Finance, Dnipro, Ukraine

Keywords:

educational process, emotional intelligence, legal clinic, professional ethics, the rule of law

Abstract

Legal clinic is an innovative form of legal education. There is the need to critically reflect on functioning of a legal clinic in order to determine the possibility of clinical education to be a factor in the development of students’ emotional intelligence and professional ethics. The article covers possible positive and negative aspects of the widespread introduction of legal clinic as a means of individual students’ qualities development into law education. The study is based on the method of systematic analysis, allowing comprehensively cover legal clinics functions and critically evaluate the impact of legal clinics on emotional intelligence and professional ethics of future lawyers’ development. The article shows that legal clinic, being an innovative form of legal education aimed at developing practical skills of future lawyers, performs both educational and social functions. Legal clinic promotes the development of emotional intelligence (allowing students to better understand and control their emotion, as well as to adequately perceive the client's psychological state, choosing appropriate tactics of behavior) and professional ethics (understanding the importance of the principle of the rule of law, the priority of human rights, awareness of the role of a lawyer in society and the importance of pro bono activities).

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