Socio-Pedagogical Portrait of a Master’s Degree Student in International Arbitration: Experience of Great Britain

• Authors: Olga Nagorna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

International arbitration as the efficient means of alternative dispute resolution has become, due to globalization, a highly specialised service rendered by professionals. Master’s degree program (LLM) completion enables those interested to become competent and competitive specialists in arbitration on the international arena. Great Britain has accumulated broad practical experience in organizing professional training in the field of international arbitration. Many leading British universities offer prospective students Master’s programs in this speciality, encouraging all comers, even those with the initial non-legal background. Basic competences of LLM graduates in international arbitration (systemic competences, professional instrumental competences, professional social and personal competences) have been identified and clarified on the basis of relevant sources analysis. Professionally important knowledge, abilities and skills have been generalized and explained. For instance, an international arbitration LLM graduate is obliged to possess communicative and social skills, cognitive abilities and skills in the subject area, must be competent in English law, etc.

Keywords

EN

Master’s degree student; international arbitration; arbitrator; university education; professional; competence; knowledge; ability; skill

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Comparative Professional Pedagogy
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 45-48

Dates

published

2016-06-01

online

2016-06-28

Contributors

author

Olga Nagorna

• Khmelnytskyi University of Management and Law Address: 8 Heroiv Maidanu St., Khmelnytskyi, 29013, Ukraine

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/rpp-2016-0017