Faculty of Law

The faculty trains students within the branch of 030900.62 Jurisprudence (with awarding the qualification of a Bachelor of Jurisprudence), as well as with giving the additional qualification of a "translator in the sphere of professional communications (English language)", 4 years of apprenticeship, to work in law enforcement bodies, Office of the Public Prosecutor, courts, legal offices, notariate, legal services of bodies of the government and management, enterprises, institutions, organizations of all patterns of ownership, and within the branch of 030900.68 Jurisprudence (with awarding the qualification of a Master of Jurisprudence), 2 years of apprenticeship. Training is offered with the following Master's programms: 521402 Constitutional Law, Municipal Law and 521411 Administrative and Finance Law.

Students study constitutional, civil, Roman, family, administrative, labour, criminal, commercial, international, public and private law, theory and history of the state and law, criminalistics, criminology and other special disciplines. They have an opportunity to attend courses of lectures on foreign commercial, trading, business law, international private law etc., performed by professors and leading experts from the USA and Scandinavia. Students obtain profound skills of lawyer practice in the Legal Clinic founded at the faculty with the help of experts and professors from Vermont Law School (USA). The faculty has a library with the computer catalogue of educational and methodical books, a reading-room, three computer classes with access to Internet and to the Code, Consultant Plus, and Consultant Plus – Regions reference systems.