ІСТОРІОГРАФІЯ ПРОБЛЕМИ ПРАВОВОЇ ОСВІТИ У ВИЩІЙ ВІЙСЬКОВІЙ ШКОЛІ УКРАЇНИ В ХХ СТОЛІТТІ

The authors carried out a historiographical review of the development of legal education of officers in higher military education institutions of Ukraine in the twentieth century in terms of modern historical and pedagogical science.The article clarifies the concepts related to the organization of legal education of officers in higher military educationalinstitutions of the USSR and independent Ukraine. It was found that in the period under study laid the foundation for further development of the modern system of domestic military education.The authors analyzed a set of studies on the legal education of officers, the degree of scientific development of the problem of legal education in higher military school in Ukraine and identified areas for its study. The authors found that representatives of various fields of scientific knowledge (history, philosophy, law and pedagogy) studied certain aspects related to the legal education of officers in higher military educational institutions. Such as the systematization of the experience of officer training; pedagogy and psychology of higher military school; problems of development of the modern system of military education in Ukraine, humanitarianization and technological aspects of personalityoriented training of military specialists with higher education; content and structure of the process of legal training of the contingent in military educational institutions; legal regulation of the military education system.The article offers a classification of scientific works related to this issue according to: the moment of their creation (modern works and published in the period under study); origin (Soviet scientific works and published in independent Ukraine and the countries of the former USSR); purpose (those that reveal the peculiarities of maintaining general discipline in the army and are devoted to issues of team training); subject (legal education of officers as an element of professional training and in the context of rulemaking of public authorities and military administration.).It was found that despite the appeal of some scholars to certain aspects of the formation of legal education of military officers in Ukraine, this problem has not been the subject of a separate scientific study.