Klochkova A.V.

The article presents the results of the study of the problem of improving the quality of education and optimizing the educational process at the Law faculty of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. Monitoring survey data for the period 2008–2016 allows to identify the key factors made the most significant assessment to the quality of legal education. The innovative growth tendency of the faculty policy is revealed.

The article is devoted to determining the specifics of legal awareness of future lawyers. A longitudinal study, conducted since 2008, allows us to identify dynamic changes in the attitude of young people to illegal manifestations, in the verbal readiness to violate moral principles and legal norms, in the level of trust in representatives of law enforcement agencies and the judicial system. Particular attention is paid to the role of the value-motivational sphere of the individual in the determining of illegal behavior, identifying of risks of deviant and illegal behavior of young people.

The article is devoted to the problem of distance education, which became extremely urgent during the pandemic and self-isolation. Both the positive and negative sides of the transition to online learning are shown. Based on a review of the results of empirical studies on distance education, including copyright, it is concluded that the rejection of traditional forms of education and reorientation to the distance model in the strategic plan will negatively affect the effectiveness and quality of higher education.