Lecturers of the Department of Humanities of Sumy Branch of KhNUIA Yulia Samoilova, Olena Shkurat and Larysa Gartsunova took part in an online presentation of the Model Curriculum of the Legal English course, developed by a team of teachers from Ukrainian and American law schools with the support of the USAID New Justice Program. Its goal is to promote the introduction of legal education standards and the modernization of linguistic training of lawyers in a globalized world. This innovative curriculum requires students to receive 300 ECTS credits from a variety of disciplines over ten semesters or five years.

The curriculum contains three groups of subjects: compulsory subjects to be taught under the program (152 ECTS credits), compulsory subjects of the university's choice (28 ECTS credits) and subjects of the student's free choice (120 ECTS credits). In addition to the required courses, the authors recommend disciplines that should be included in the curriculum of lawyers and thus give students the opportunity to teach them as part of the compulsory disciplines chosen by the university or as part of the disciplines of free choice of students.
The disciplines are divided into five priority areas of jurisprudence: private law, public law, criminal law, legal skills and legal foundations.