1.Must know:
on a conceptual level: the main trends in legal ethics development, legal events, cultural concepts in the law, a place and a role of a lawyer in the society;
on a fundamental level: the content of legal ethics, principles, functions and components; the ratio of legal ethics and professional culture of a lawyer; the reasons of development of internal duty's imperative; factors that determine the model of a modern lawyer, both in our country and in other countries (comparative analysis);
on a practical and creative level: requirements that are put to the lawyer in an independent democratic Ukraine, the reasons of lawyers' misconduct, the problems of creating professional and ethics code of a lawyer, public attitudes toward lawyers.
2.Must be able to:
on a reproductive level: to implement the requirements of the state to the formation of lawyers high professional culture to express their thoughts, feelings and views on various issues during the study course, based on theoretical knowledge, to argue and carry out a search activity in solving certain issues of the discipline;
on a heuristic level: to prepare reports and essays, to form their own view in legal ethics;
on a creative level: to form their own views and inner conviction of professional lawyer's outlook, to implement into practice, on the principle of legal sense, a spiritual content of laws and other legal documents, to distinguish internal and external imperative of a duty in a legal and illegal phenomena.

Theory of state and law
Culture of law
Sociology of law
Philosophy of law

Legal ethics is a philosophical and legal science of cognition by a lawyer the essence of inner duty's imperative, which creates prerequisites for the formation of his personal rules of professional conduct and motives of their choice. Legal ethics, a sphere of action of which is jurisprudence, from a philosophical point of view, pretends to a kind of monopoly philosophical and legal knowledge of the man. The importance of this discipline can be further defined as: it is an Encyclopedia for a lawyer, the way to high professional skills and guarantee of his free will protection in a natural and legal space. If the lawyer does not possess legal ethics, he will always remain the narrow specialist, sometimes even condemned the "failure" at work. Legal ethics as an area that covers all forms of moral demands, can internally grasp the profession, is able to develop a large pool of skills of a future lawyer and a logic of professional activities, ethics of thinking, etc.

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The assessment of a student's learning outcomes is subject to a 100-point scale established by Lviv National Polytechnic University, according to the regulations on the rating evaluation of students' achievement.
A final mark of the subject matter consists of the mark of a final control of learning outcomes during a semester and the mark of learning outcomes in conducting a control measure during a semester control.
Practical studies are conducted on the main, the most important topics and sections of legal ethics. Based on the active form of training theoretical material, skills and abilities, creativity are assigned, psychological readiness for future legal activity is formed.
Independent work is planned as a form of training that aims to assist in the study of proposed literature, in search of answers to the problematic issues of the course, mastering the practical tasks of the course. This form of work is the basis for students.
SC is conducted in the form of examination based on a storage system in terms stipulated with a schedule of the educational process of the University.
Examination is a form of SC student's learning outcomes on a subject matter for the semester.
For the exam (EC) theoretical issues, tasks that require creativity and the ability to synthesize knowledge and apply them to solve practical problems basing on the material provided by the working curriculum of the subject matter are submitted.
Practical (seminar) studies – 40 points. Examination control – 60 points. Total for the subject matter – 100 points.