The students of the Siberian Federal University have won Russian National Round of the Jessup Moot Court Competition, which is the largest and most prestigious moot court in the world.

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For more than semicentenial development Law Institute has turned into one of the leading centres of legal personnel training in Russia: prominent representatives of various branches of law work here, there are 16 doctors of sciences (the teachers having a scientific degree, make 74%) among them. 

About 2500 students are trained at the Institute. Educational activity is conducted according to the programs of higher and additional vocational training. At the Institute along with the traditional five year training there is a multilevel system of preparation of lawyers, which provides higher education. The students are given a bachelor’s degree after four years of training and master’s degree – after six years.

Lecturers of the Institute actively participate in working out and examination of projects of the Russian and regional laws, co-operate with regional and Russian authorities. Professors and senior lecturers are members of advisory councils and the commissions of state governing bodies, members of the qualifying commissions. At the initiative of the Institute scientific and advisory council is created at Krasnoyarsk Regional Court. The most qualified lecturers of the Institute along with judges participate there.

In 2011 the Law Institute passed the social accreditation held by the Association of Lawyers of Russia.

The Association of Lawyers of Russia unites a great number of professional lawyers of different law spheres. It is comprised of practicing lawyers as well as law professors.

One of the areas of the Association’s activity is the promotion of the quality of legal education including the social accreditation of the higher schools of law. The accreditation was passed successfully and the Law Institute was recognized as the educational institution which prepares high-quality professionals in the sphere of law.



October 16, 2015 Siberian Federal University Law Institute is going to hold the scientific-practical conference with international participation "The legal regimes: the theory and methodology"

As a part of the conference there will be a discussion of the theoretical and legal, sectoral and cross-sectoral issues of the theory of legal regimes.

Plenary session of the conference will be held October 16, 2015 at 10 am in the Law Institute of the Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk, Maerchaka st., 6, room. 3-10). Breakout sessions will be held October 16, 2015 in the classrooms of SFU Law Institute. The names of conference’ sections will be determined by the results of the participant’s applications.

A collective monograph and a collection of abstracts of the conference participants will be published according to the results of the conference.