Theoretical and historical sciences in modern legal education, law-making and law enforcement practice

The subject. The issue of the modern value of theoretical and historical sciences is considered. It is proved that these sciences continue to be irreplaceable for the development of legal ideas, legal values, general legal dogma, fulfil a certain role as the basis of law-making and lawenforcement practice. The competence approach implemented in higher education should not lead to the reduction of theoretical and historical knowledge. At the same time, the assessment of modern research in the field of these sciences for their relevance and scientific novelty depends on the extent to which these studies actually contribute to the development of legal ideas (legal values) and general legal dogma applied in practice. 

The purpose of the article is to substantiate the importance of theoretical and historical sciences in the field of legal science as a whole at the current stage of its development. Methodology. The following methods were used: combination of dialectical method with the methods of formal logic, formal legal and comparative legal analysis.

Main results. It seems that the question about the expediency of studying theoreticalhistorical sciences in the educational programmes for legal specialties should be answered affirmatively, as they remain relevant and practically applicable and will continue to be in the future. Despite the fact that today there is a controversial but widespread view stating that theoretical and historical sciences are no longer able to respond to the relevant challenges and have a significant disconnection with practical jurisprudence, lawyers nowadays still should be taught to think, to analyse legal acts and other legal information,

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