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.

{xtypo_dropcap}T{/xtypo_dropcap}he Law institute actively co-operates with foreign partners. The international cooperation is conducted with higher schools of such countries as Germany, the Netherlands, Republic of Korea, the Lithuanian Republic, Finland, Great Britain, Czech Republic and others. The long-term contacts exist with Germany and the Netherlands which allow to carry out the academic exchange of lecturers and students.

{xtypo_info}The institute has concluded bilateral agreements with universities of Graifsvald and Passau (Germany), Chunbuk university (Republic of Korea), Vilnius university (the Lithuanian Republic), Karlov university (Czech Republic). Cooperation with them allows SFU LI students to have an opportunity of inclusive training, defend final qualifying works on-line in foreign languages, be trained in joint postgraduate study and for master's degree.{/xtypo_info}

The most well-known and mass programme is "German-speaking club on German law".

Classes are conducted in German. Every summer the International summer law academy is arranged where foreign lecturers are also invited. Classes are conducted in the German and the English languages. The students successfully completed training on the programme are granted a semester or a year scolarship to be trained at University of Passau Law Department. Apart from LI students of other Siberian higher law schools participate in the programme (Tomsk, Omsk, Kemerovo, Barnaul, Irkutsk). The co-ordinator of the program between German partners and Siberian higher schools is associate professor L.Maiorova.

{xtypo_info}Robert Bosch Foundation lectorate has been working at the Institute since 2005 in the framework of which LI students study German law in the German language. The purpose of the lecturing programme is to promote the German language learning and country studying, develop humanitarian and social sciences (including jurisprudence ) in Central and Eastern Europe.{/xtypo_info}

Over 10 semesters the students of Siberian Federal University Law Institute master the German legal language, bases of German legal techniques, German constitutional, administrative, civil, labour, criminal law and European law. Lectures in German are read by German senior lecturers from universities of Germany.

The lecture center of DAAD Foundation “German-speaking curriculums” has been functioning since 2008. The purpose of this course is to give the Russian students the possibility to deepen knowledge of the German language and to get to know various branches of German law. Students should be prepared to stay in Germany with the purpose of training, further legal activity in Germany and establishing contacts in Germany.

{xtypo_rounded3}According to the agreement on cooperation between Siberian Federal University and University of Passau the Programme of A.Hertzen is carried out. The Programme purpose is assistance in teaching of German and European law in   Siberian Federal University Law Institute; stimulation of carrying out scientific research in the field of comparative law; sharing  western experience in teaching law; training Russian lawyers to be experts both in German and European law and German lawyers in Russian law; providing financial support to Siberian Federal University and sharing experience with other Siberian Universities.{/xtypo_rounded3}

Established  at Siberian Federal University Law Institute  “Russian-German Centre” actively co-operates with it. German Club is organised and constantly works for students and lecturers There is a large collection of literature in foreign languages in the Law Institute library.

SFU Legal clinic was set up in April, 1998 on the basis of a public reception of Krasnoyarsk regional public committee on protection of human rights and has been a structural division of SFU LI since 2001 and since that time up to November, 2007 the clinic was managed by the Dr. of legal Sciences, professor, head of the SFU LI criminal law chair, Honoured lawyer of the Russian Federation – A.Gorelik.

The legal clinic activity is aimed at:

• Combination of theoretical and practical training of LI students;
  
• Education of lawyers with a high standard of legal consciousness and culture and possessing skills of practical work;
  
• Distribution innovative forms and methods of training of lawyers;
  
• Rendering free legal advice to people who owing to life circumstances cannot afford to get it for money; providing their access to justice;
  
• Legal education of the population.

Training of students in legal clinic begins after their completion of the second year optional educational program «Professional skills of the lawyer» (Moot clinic). This optional programme is an interdisciplinary theoretical-practical one and is aimed at forming general basic skills of legal activity, and at acquaintance with morally-ethical aspect activity of the lawyer in modern society as well.

Annually in September the individual selection of the 3-4 year students for the clinic is announced. Prior to work with clients of the clinic, students complete additional training on “The Basics of clinical activity” (Moot clinic), aimed at continuation of formations and development of legal activity skills. Based on the results of the training the decision on the student’s admission or refusal to work with Clinic cases is taken.

The basic directions of Legal clinic activity:

• Reception and consultation of citizens in public reception offices. Work in the Public reception office allows a student to acquire additional knowledge in civil, housing, family, labour etc., legislations to acquire skills of working with a client, to learn  to analyze problems of clients and to give advice to draw up legal documents, such as claims, complaints, etc.
• Protection and representation of rights and interests of citizens on civil and to criminal cases in the courts of the general jurisdiction and in arbitration courts, in state authorities and local government, establishments and other organisations. The given activity allows students to get to know work of the courts, the mentioned bodies and other organisations, to acquire complex skills of judicial representation.
• Legal advice to the condemned (advice on correspondence; work with condemned in reformatories; project “the Step towards” - the project of correctional camps for the condemned minors of Kansk and Abakan reformatories. The project objective is formation of positively-directed, effective social competence reducing risk of recidivism after their release among the condemned).
• Juvenile direction “Live law” - work at schools, and also conduction of psihological-legal intensive courses for certain target groups.
  Protection of citizens’ rights against wrongful acts of law enforcement bodies officers (“Struggle against tortures in militia”).

One of priority directions of Law Institute development is formation of additional vocational training system in the field of jurisprudence. The Centre for additional vocational training as a part the Institute was set up under the SFU rector's order on 28.07.2008 №993.

Conditions for conducting classes with use of the up-to-date educational techniques, including role plays, multimedia presentations and case-technologies are available in the Centre. The state sample documents are issued according to the training results.

Classes are conducted both by LI lecturers, and invited specialists-practitioners, namely, heads of Federal bailiff service divisions, regional Agency on maintenance of judges of the peace activity, and Krasnoyarsk region administration Council as well.

In spite of the fact that the Centre of additional vocational training has been recently established, it has already started implementation of the advanced training programme, having won competition on the conclusion of the state contract with Administrative office of Krasnoyarsk region administration.Judges of the peace assistants, court clerks and secretaries of judicial sites became the first trainees. In July, 2008 they receive the first certificates of short-term advanced training. Trainees emphasise high professional level of the lecturers, informative content of the classes and good organisation of the educational process. BPULE is planning to work out and implement programmes covering all forms of additional vocational training, including advanced training.