Education as a leading factor in the development of society

At present, the universities of Russia have accumulated a vast experience in teaching various disciplines. However, this experience is often not beyond separate educational institutions and departments. And many young teachers are keenly lack the scientific and methodical lessons and the need for accumulation of methodological experience. The purpose of the educational activity consists in both assimilation selected knowledge, experience that mankind has developed, and in improving knowledge, skills and habits. In order to rationalize the methods of educational activity, to find the best ways to solve educational problems, innovative methods of teaching developed. Educational game is one of the methods of active learning and is widely used in the educational process. Nevertheless, the practice of using educational games in teaching at the law faculty is rare at the time when domestic and foreign pedagogy indicate that active learning technologies, including educational games, contribute to the formation of cognitive and professional motives and interests of trainee