LawInstitute of Siberian Federal University is the first regional educational establishment which has started to train lawyers. It was organized in 1955 as the educational and consulting unit of AUEMLI. It was later reorganized into postal tuition institution of Tomsk State University. In 1969 Krasnoyarsk State University was established in Krasnoyarsk and the Law Department became a part of it (Krasnoyarsk State University was included into Siberian Federal University in 2006). Now Law Institute is one of others 19 institutes of SFU.
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. The Institute is well-known in Russia and abroad for the fundamental scientific research in the field of theory and history of the state and law, criminal law and criminology, civil procedure and criminal procedure. Scientific research institute of legislation and legal policy is created on the basis of the Institute.
Today in Siberian Federal District Law Institute is the leading educational establishment in the field of jurisprudence. I.Shishko, director of the Institute, is the chairperson of educational and methodical council on jurisprudence.
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. Six master degree programmes are carried out by the Institute, one of them “Foreign and comparative law” is implemented together with a number of foreign universities.
The Institute participates in grants of the largest foreign foundations (Carnegie Corporation, Robert Bosch's and Mc’Carthors Foundations, DAAD) in the field of jurisprudence and education development.
The Institute is fivefold grant receiver of the European program ТЕМРUS together with universities Graisfald University (Germany), Tilburg University (the Netherlands), Ionsuu University (Finland). Lately the geography of the international contacts has extended thanks to the bilateral contracts of cooperation with Chunbuksk University (Republic of Korea), Vilnius University (the Lithuanian Republic) and Karlov University (Czech Republic).
Students of the Institute leave abroad to train and teachers – to improve their professional skills and to give lectures. In turn, students and lecturers of foreign higher schools come to the Institute for training and work.
Since 2001 the Institute structure includes the Legal clinic which was created in April, 1998 on the basis of Krasnoyarsk public reception office Committee on Human Rights Protection. In 2008 the center of additional vocational training was created by the decree of the rector of Siberian Federal University.
2010 the Institute has launched the educational programs on “International relations” and “Customs”.
According to SFU academic Counsel regulation on February 28, 2011 “Mediation Center” has been established in the Institute. This Center helps many people to solve their controversies in pretrial order.
Lecturers actively retrain. They regularly go through the official procedures required for obtaining an academic degree, retrain and improve their professional skills and qualification.
Only in 2007-2008 years 19 lecturers of the Institute improved their qualification in other Institutes and Universities, from them 7 lecturers abroad (Germany, Republic of Korea, Italy, Czech Republic, the Netherlands and other countries).
