Legal Education Opening to Interdisciplinarity--Are Law School Curricula Capable of Educating Future Elites? Remarks in the Context of the Polish Legal Education System

An important issue in the discussion on the quality of legal education is the interdisciplinary character of legal studies. The main problem is how much the interdisciplinarity is demanded and needed by the consumers of the legal education market. It is believed that bringing interdisciplinary elements into law studies curricula, contributes to enhancing knowledge, skills, competence, and qualities that are necessary in modern times, sometimes much more than just dry legal knowledge. Lawyers who have sound knowledge of economy, finance, sociology, or psychology may provide better services tailored to their clients' needs. The major question remains--what makes a good lawyer--technical legal skills and fluent knowledge of legal provisions, statutes, case-law, or ability to listen, to understand the social processes or economic mechanisms better, having a better methodological apparatus, familiarised with a richer range of points of reference useful in creating solutions in their respective fields--having learned them from other disciplines of knowledge. The goal is to analyse the content of the Polish legal studies and reflect on how higher education institutions may address the issue of interdisciplinarity, in the context of the growing pressure to have highly skilled lawyers who can adapt to the fast-progressing socio-economic environment. [For the complete volume, "Proceedings of International Conference on Studies in Education and Social Sciences (Antalya, Turkey, November 11-14, 2021). Volume 1," see ED625228.]