Abstract:
This study analyzes specialized national and international legal acts and standards that enjoy national
and international recognition and are relevant to ensuring the appropriate quality of higher legal
education in Kazakhstan. Applying methods of logical and legal analysis, a global approach to
comparing the practices of legal education within the country and abroad, the authors offer specific
recommendations for improving specific standards of Kazakh legislation on education, namely, the
adoption of the draft law “On Higher Education” in the republic; the introduction of the Socratic
method in the lecture and educational process, creative vacations as a special type of professional
development at law faculties of universities; the use of digital artificial intelligence tools at all stages
of law students’ education; providing more practical training; and significant restructuring of the
knowledge verification system in exams. It is concluded that improving the quality of legal education
is necessary for training highly qualified lawyers for legal practice, and lawyers with an anticorruption legal consciousness. The novelty of this study is determined by its unique thematic focus,
since it concerns an unexplored domain of specialized legal norms in the legal education sector of
Kazakhstan. In addition, this study is novel as it is the first study in the history of the Republic in
terms of improving higher legal education with the help of legislative and international legal norms.
The practical significance of this study lies in the regulations and practices proposed for
implementation.
