Laboratory of information-legal technologies is one of the significant divisions of Law institute providing educational and research process.

For successful development of information technologies the branched out local network has been created at the Institute including:

• Three computer classes of the general access, three law-linguistics laboratories, computer-criminalistic laboratory;
  
• All chairs, administrative and methodical divisions.

The computer park accounts for more than 300 computers, 6 servers, about 40 printers and 20 multipurpose systems. This transport basis with an exit in a global network «Internet» grants access to legal databases "Lawyer", "Guarantor", "Adviser Plus", "Code", " Legislation of Russia".

The created information infrastructure allows Institute lecturers and students to search with the least time expenses and study legal documents, receive a considerable quantity of necessary scientific and other information, to carry out e-mail correspondence and to display information, methodical materials, electronic course programmes for general use, to use the electronic catalogue of the university library, as well as libraries of Russia and other countries.

The Institute site presenting all aspects of the Institute life has been created.

Practically all Law institute classrooms are equipped by the multimedia devices (stationary presentation complexes, portable presentation complexes, boards of a direct and return projection, interactive-plasma panels), that has allowed to reach qualitatively new level of maintenance of educational process. A number of disciplines are provided with video lectures.

Within the international programmes framework final qualifying works defense is conducted in foreign languages in the course of teleconferences with foreign professors participation.

Computer techniques are actively applied to the training process:

• moot systems on criminalistics are used within the "Computer modeling of process of investigation of crimes" course;
  
• the computer technology of screen processing of remedial document texts – is used within the " Civil procedural law" course;
  
• in a computer class students are trained  to draw up various procedural acts using  editors within the special course "Procedural acts of preliminary investigation";
  
• the programme on theory of crimes qualification has been developed;
  
• the system of remote computer control and self-testing of students' knowledge almost in all disciplines is set up on the Law Institute server;

All conferences, international seminars and other events are carried out with the information-legal technologies laboratory employees' assistance. The laboratory supports creation of educational-methodical complexes, history of the Institute design. Laboratory employees take an active part in the SFU innovative educational projects.