376 KUTAFIN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW BEST INTERNATIONAL PRACTICES OF HIGHER LAW EDUCATION By Olga Shevchenko (Russian Federation) Author Doctor of science (Law), Kutafin Moscow State Law University, 2007 Professor, Chair of Labour Law and Social Security Law Russia, 123995, Moscow, Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya Street, 9 labourlaw@bk.ru 10.17803/2313-5395.2016.2.6.376―381 On May 18, 2016, the Conference “Best International Practices of the Higher Law Education” (moderated by Mr. Viktor Vladimirovich Blazheev, Vice President, Association of Russian Law Education, Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University (Moscow State Law Academy) was held within the framework of the Fifth St. Petersburg International Legal Forum (SPILF). <...> Who should be a graduate of a law school? <...> What are his/ her professional and personal qualities, skills, knowledge, and competencies in today’s changing world, in the age of information technologies and the boundless space of dialogue and domination of cross-border contacts? www.kulawr.ru Volume 2 Оctober 2016 Issue 2(6) Olga Shevchenko Best International Practices of Higher Law Education 377 “270 educational institutions are training students in Law nowadays in Russia, which amounts to 30 per cent of the total number of higher educational establishments. <...> Totally, 603,000 people are currently studying at Law Faculties in our country, that is, 11 per cent of the total number of students in the Russian Federation”, Mr. Viktor Blazheev opened the Conference referring to the statistic data. <...> According to him, we should be very careful in building a multistage model of training lawyers taking into account today’s realities. <...> Mr. Blazheev believes that it is important to listen to the employers’ expectations, the requirements that, in his opinion, graduates should meet. <...> Ms. Larisa Petruchak, Vice Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University, talked about relevant processes at the University. “We started focusing on international experience, i. e. training lawyers who are in demand in the labor market”, she said. <...> She noted that the Kutafin Moscow State Law University tries to combine traditions of classic education and innovation in the process <...>