Law Education: Language and Legal Translation Perspectives

The development of law education in many countries goes along with the reforms in higher education, social processes and the development of national legislations. The main goals of training law specialists have been developing professional competences with the view to effective granting of rights to citizens and acquiring transferable skills necessary in future employment. One of the challenges in the European law education concerns learning effective legal communication in which problems are not rare due to different legal cultures. The role of foreign languages and translation related to communicative aspect of education is significant and requires analysis and discussion in educational communities. The need to train law specialists and judges in foreign languages poses the problem of integration language courses into law education. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.