The Law Faculty of

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located in

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. The Faculty of

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was established by the Academic Council Decision of March 20, 1991, initially as the Legal Department on the basis of the Department of Legal Studies that has existed at

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since 1920. By the Academic Council Decision of May 31, 1995 it was transformed into a Faculty. Student park

The Faculty of Law

The Faculty consists of 4 main departments:

Private law Private law is that part of a civil law legal system which is part of the ''jus commune'' that involves relationships between individuals, such as the law of contracts and torts (as it is called in the common law), and the law of obligations ( ...

Public Law Public law is the part of law that governs relations between legal persons and a government, between different institutions within a state, between different branches of governments, as well as relationships between persons that are of direct ...

Criminal Law Criminal law is the body of law that relates to crime. It prescribes conduct perceived as threatening, harmful, or otherwise endangering to the property, health, safety, and moral welfare of people inclusive of one's self. Most criminal law i ...

and

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. The academic body of the Faculty consists of 80

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s involving 11

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s, 17 associate professors and 52 non full-tenure lecturers.

Mission

The main mission of the Faculty is to provide a high-quality training in

of the

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s and

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in the

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qualification degree of Master and

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Educational

The period of training for master's degree is 11 semesters and completes with the laying of three state exams: Civil Law,

and

in accordance with the Ordinance on the Unified State Requirements for Acquisition of a Higher Education in Law. Graduates obtain the professional qualification of a lawyer and acquire legal capacity after a 3-month period of practice and after laying the practical and theoretical examination in accordance with the requirements of the Judicial System Act and the Bar Act. Within the education in

and based on a long-term contract with the American Center for Legal Studies in

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, from the beginning of the 2006/2007

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each semester is held a separate course in

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by highly skilled American attorneys. The training is done entirely in English within 45 academic hours.

Accreditation

The programme accreditation of Law speciality is made in 2004 (at an assembly of the Accreditation Board of the National Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of 13.05.2004). The speciality of Law is given a positive assessment by all standards that is a prerequisite for the higher educational purposes of the specialty, the quality of training and the opportunities for professional realization of the graduates of Law. The training for the acquisition of educational qualification degree of Doctor of Law is based on the Accreditation Board Decision of the National Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of 03.06.2004. The Faculty of Law is accredited to train doctoral students in the scientific specialty 05.05.07 - Administrative Law and Procedure as also in the scientific specialty 05.05.08 - Civil and Family Law. There are 10 doctoral students in the process of learning at the Faculty.. The Departments of History, Social and Economic Theories and Philosophy provide the academic plan at the Legal Faculty for the compulsory and elective disciplines of these fields as well as the academic process of some other disciplines at UNWE.

References

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