During February 14-16, 2020 Group 9 of Season III of the Tomorrow’s Lawyer Program, continued soft skills trainig for lawyers at Module 5 of the Program entitled “Legal Reasoning and Writing”.

Trainig “Legal Reasoning and Writing” was exclusively developed by the Program’s team and is being held for the first time for the participants of Season III of the Program.  

The module, in particular, includes the following issues:

• Norm application and interpretation;
• The structure of the legal argument;
• The ratio of logic and rhetoric in legal argumentation;
• Categories and paradigms of legal writing.

Module trainer – Mykhailo Koltsov, candidate of philosophical sciences, Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, media analyst, participant of the StopFake project, lecturer of the Ukrainian School of Political Studies, in the past – head of the Situation Center of the President of Ukraine. His research interests include policy analysis, data visualization, and information security.

Group expert – Viktoriya Mitko, lawyer, Head of the Bar Association of Legal Aid Providers (BALAP)