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Developing Mongolia's Legal Framework: A Needs Analysis

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Legal Education

Legal education is provided primarily by the Institute of Law of the State University of Mongolia in Ulaanbaatar. The Institute has a current enrollment of around 400 students. It has been difficult for the professors there to adapt their courses and teaching methods to the new system, due to a lack of experience and an absence of research material in a language they and their students can understand. Course at present tend to be theoritical and not particularly relevant to the situations that the students are likely to face to face in a developed market economy. The professors would benefit from assistance in adapting both their courses and teaching methods and from the provision of equipment to enable them to produce new materials for their students.

With the change to a market economy, Mongolia has altered the basis of social and economic relationships, and thus the essence and justification of its legal system. The impact of the new order on legal theory needs to be reassessed and a new theory of law developed. Similarly, legal education has to be restructured in terms of jurisprudence and, more practically, in the choice of courses, their content and their presentation.

Legal instructors must adapt their knowledge to the realities and cultures of established market economies in order to prepare their students for the different range of work now open to them. The work of different legal professionals such as prosecutors, judges or criminal advocates, which have traditionally been the future roles of law graduates, has changed considerably in response to the new legal environment, and there should soon be a greater demand for commercial legal expertise.

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