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The Ukrainian Catholic University in cooperation with the USAID Program to reform the justice sector "New Justice" continues a series of lectures UCU "Rule of Law Lecture Series" of the leading American and European lawyers devoted to the actual challenges and problems in the field of consolidation of the rule of law, justice and fairness. The organizers provide the opportunity for everyone interested to join the audience online. It should be noted that the students of the Faculty of Law of ZNU are the permanent members of such international events.

For the third year in a row, at the Faculty of Law of ZNU, held a competition "The best experts of legal English" is held at the Faculty of Law of ZNU with the assistance of the staff of the Department of Foreign Language of Professional Direction of the Faculty of Foreign Philology. The students of the faculty who want to demonstrate their knowledge of professional English are invited to participate in it. During the competition they represent their skill level, doing grammar exercises, working with professional terminology, creating a thematic essay. They also take part in a general discussion.

From the fourteenth to the twenty-first of February at the Faculty of Law of Zaporizhzhya National University continues a Week of advanced learning of a foreign professional language. Traditionally, the students and postgraduates of the Faculty of Law pay attention to the increase of their level of language training with emphasis on the study of legal foreign terminology, work with the regulatory sources in a foreign language, participation in the professional discussions with native speakers. During the theme week they will have the opportunity to join 2 video trainings that are specifically organized for Zaporizhzhya branch by the Center for German Law of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. The classes will be devoted to the problems of public law, skills of professional public speaking and preparation of professional legal documents.

In 2016 Zaporizhzhya National University joined a consortium "e-VERUM" (http://everum.org.ua) and became a member of the project TORNADO (Thomson Reuters for scientific-research and educational institutions). Thereby, teachers and students of ZNU had the opportunity to participate in free webinars and use of the latest Internet resources for research.

The activities on the implementation of distance learning in educational process started in Zaporizhzhya National University in 2016. This work was joined by 9 faculties of the University: Historical, Sociology and Administration, Physics, Journalism, Mathematics, Social Pedagogics and Psychology, Physical Education, Economics and Management. The introduction of such form of education is planned on the basis of the Postgraduate Education Center.