Тhe competence - based approach to legal training: problems and prospects

The attempt to reveal the content of the competence - based approach in higher education in training specialists in the field of Jurisprudence, to analyze the existing problems and prospects of applying interactive techniques was undertaken in this article. The importance of the student-centered approach in developing skills and abilities was shown. Retraining and promotion of the research and educational staff are considered as way of overcoming problems in adoption of new educational standards of the third generation