On the way to professionalism - the promotion of law students' academic integrity

As the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe has stated, ability to behave professionally and with integrity has to be developed already in the process of training future lawyers. A fundamental value of teaching, learning and scholarship is academic integrity, yet surveys indicate significant number of cases of students' academic dishonesty. The purpose of this paper is to reveal the relationship between integrity as professional value of lawyer and commitment to academic integrity and to systematize the applicable means for promotion of academic integrity. The results of the research support the assumption that academic integrity is significant for the development of professionalism of future lawyer. The promotion of academic integrity depends not only on the efforts of students and teachers but of academic institutions and the whole society as well. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.