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Sverdlovsk Law Institute (1935—1954, 1962—1981)
Sverdlovsk Law Institute named after A. Y. Vyshinsky (1954—1962)
Sverdlovsk Law Institute named after R. A. Rudenko (1981—1992)
Ural State Law Academy (1992—2014)
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, research university which includes law schools, colleges, faculties and other public graduate and undergraduate educational institutions. USLU's main campus is situated in the

, Russia. Founded in 1918, USLU is one of the largest

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s in

. USLU is organized into 15 schools, colleges, and institutes, located in

. USLU operates international scientific relations facilities in

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, and

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. The university has high entry requirements for its prospective students. National Universities rankings ranked the academy in 5 place of the best Law schools in the

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. The Federal Agency for Scientific Research in information and telecommunication technologies of The Russian Federation ranked USLU in the 2nd position for the best law schools in Russia in 2008. In 2004, USLA was awarded by gold medal in "One hundred best universities in Russia".

History

The Siberian Institute of Soviet Law (russian: Сибирский институт советского права) was founded on 20 April 20, 1931 in

Irkutsk Irkutsk ( ; rus, Иркутск, p=ɪrˈkutsk; Buryat language, Buryat and mn, Эрхүү, ''Erhüü'', ) is the largest city and administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. With a population of 617,473 as of the 2010 Census, Irkutsk is ...

by the decision of the

Government of the Soviet Union The Government of the Soviet Union ( rus, Прави́тельство СССР, p=prɐˈvʲitʲɪlʲstvə ɛs ɛs ɛs ˈɛr, r=Pravítelstvo SSSR, lang=no), formally the All-Union Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, commonly ab ...

based on the Faculty of Law of

. On 1 August 1934 the resolution of the

transferred the Siberian Institute of Soviet Law from

to Sverdlovsk. In 1935, the Siberian Institute of Soviet Law was renamed to Sverdlovsk Law Institute (russian: Свердловский юридический институт). The institute was named after

Procurator General of the USSR The Procurator General of the USSR (russian: Генеральный прокурор СССР, Generalnyi prokuror SSSR) was the highest functionary of the Office of the Public Procurator of the USSR, responsible for the whole system of offices o ...

Andrey Vyshinsky from 1954 to 1962 and after Prosecutor General of the USSR

Roman Rudenko Roman Andreyevich Rudenko (russian: Рома́н Андре́евич Руде́нко, – January 23, 1981) was a Soviet lawyer and statesman. Procurator-General of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1944 to 1953, Rudenko became ...

from 1981 to 1992. On 24 December 1992 Sverdlovsk Law Institute was renamed to Ural State Law Academy. The academy was renamed to Ural State Law University by decree of Russian Ministry of Education and Science on April 22, 2014. On 9 February 2022 the university was named after the first Chairman of the

Supreme Court of Arbitration of Russia The Supreme Court of Arbitration of the Russian Federation (also translated as the High rArbitration Court of the Russian Federation; Russian: ) was the court of final instance in commercial disputes in Russia. Additionally, it supervised the wor ...

Veniamin Yakovlev Veniamin Fyodorovich Yakovlev (russian: Вениамин Фёдорович Яковлев, 12 February 1932 – 24 July 2018) was a Soviet and Russian jurist. He was the first and only Chairman of the Supreme Court of Arbitration of the USSR and ...

Structure

Institutes

* Institute of Justice * Institute of Business and Law * Institute of the Prosecutor's Office * Institute of State and International Law * Institute of Special Educational Programs * Institute of Additional Education * Institute of Pre-University Training * Department of Doctoral and Postgraduate Studies

Departments

* Department of Administrative Law * Department of Civil Law * Department of Civil Procedure * Department of Constitutional Law * Department of Corporate Law * Department of Criminal Law * Department of Criminalistics * Department of Financial Law * Department of History of State and Law * Department of IT Law * Department of International and European Law * Department of Judicial Activity and Criminal Procedure * Department of Labour Law * Department of Land Law, Urban Planning Law, and Environmental Law * Department of Legal Theory * Department of Physical Education and Sport * Department of Prosecutor's Activity * Department of Russian and Foreign Languages * Department of Social and Humanitarian Disciplines

Science

Scientists, professors and graduate students of the USLU participate in international, national and regional

academic conference An academic conference or scientific conference (also congress, symposium, workshop, or meeting) is an event for researchers (not necessarily academics) to present and discuss their scholarly work. Together with academic or scientific journals an ...

s and seminars. Since 1993, the University publishes scientific, theoretical and practical research projects of its students in cooperation with the

Ministry of Justice A Ministry of Justice is a common type of government department that serves as a justice ministry. Lists of current ministries of justice Named "Ministry" * Ministry of Justice (Abkhazia) * Ministry of Justice (Afghanistan) * Ministry of Just ...

International Relations

USLU maintains and develops relationships with a number of leading universities in

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and the

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Alumni

Over the years Ural State Law University trained over 60,000 qualified professionals.

Famous alumni

* Sergei Alexeyev (1949), a notable Soviet and Russian legal scholar, one of the co-authors of the Constitution of Russia of 1993. *

(1953), a Soviet and Russian jurist who served as the 5th Minister of Justice of the USSR from 1989 to 1990 and as the 1st Chairman of the

from 1992 to 2005. *

Alexander Karlin Alexander Bogdanovich Karlin (russian: Александр Богданович Карлин), born 29 October 1951 in the selo of Medvedka, located in the Tyumentsevsky District of Altai Krai, is a Russian politician. He served as the Governor ...

(1972), a Russian politician who served as the 5th

Governor A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...

Altai Krai Altai Krai (russian: Алта́йский край, r=Altaysky kray, p=ɐlˈtajskʲɪj kraj) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (a krai). It borders clockwise from the west, Kazakhstan (East Kazakhstan Region and Pavlodar ...

from 2005 to 2018. *

Yury Skuratov Yury Ilyich Skuratov (russian: Ю́рий Ильи́ч Скура́тов; born 3 July 1952) is a Russian jurist and politician. Skuratov was born in Ulan-Ude. From 1995 until 1999, he was Prosecutor General of Russia. In February 1999, he di ...

(1973), a Russian jurist who served as the 5th

Prosecutor-General of Russia The Prosecutor General of Russia (also Attorney General of Russia, russian: Генеральный прокурор Российской Федерации, Generalʹnyy prokuror Rossiyskoy Federatsii) heads the system of official prosecution i ...

from 1995 to 2000. *

Yury Biryukov Yury Stanislavovich Biryukov (in , b. March 7, 1948, in Lviv, Ukraine, Soviet Union) is a Russian lawyer and politician. From June 7, 2000 to July 7, 2006, he was a First Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia. Since 2006 he has been a representat ...

(1975), a Russian jurist who served as the First Deputy

from 2000 to 2006 and the

Senator A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...

from

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from 2014 to 2019. *

Yury Chaika Yury Yakovlevich Chaika (russian: Юрий Яковлевич Чайка; born 21 May 1951) is a Russian jurist and politician, Presidential Envoy to the North Caucasian Federal District since 2020. Previously he served Prosecutor General of Rus ...

(1976), a Russian jurist who served as the 6th Minister of Justice of Russia from 1999 to 2006 and the 7th

from 2006 to 2020. * Sergey Trakhimenok (1977), a Belarusian writer. * Serhii Kivalov (1980), a Ukrainian politician who served as the 4th Head of

Central Election Commission of Ukraine The Central Election Commission of Ukraine ( uk, Центральна виборча комісія України, commonly abbreviated in Ukrainian as ЦВК (''Tse-Ve-Ka''); sometimes referred to as the Central Electoral Commission of Ukrai ...

during the

2004 Ukrainian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 31 October, 21 November and 26 December 2004. The election was the fourth presidential election to take place in Ukraine following independence from the Soviet Union. The last stages of the election ...

. *

Alexander Yevstifeyev Alexander Alexandrovich Yevstifeyev (russian: link=no, Александр Александрович Евстифеев; born 14 May 1958) is a Russian politician and jurist. From 21 September 2017 to 10 May 2022 he served as the Head of the Ma ...

(1980), a Russian politician who served as the 4th

Head of Mari El The Head of the Republic of Mari El (formerly President of Mari El Republic) is the highest executive position in the Mari El Republic, a federal subject of the Russian Federation. The first President of Mari El Republic was Vladislav Zotin when ...

from 2017 to 2022. * Vladislav Tumanov (1983), a Russian politician who served as the 2nd Governor of

Pskov Oblast Pskov Oblast (russian: Пско́вская о́бласть, ') is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the west of the country. Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, ...

from 1992 to 1996 * Vasily Piskaryov (1984), a Russian lawyer who served as the Deputy Head of the

Investigative Committee of Russia The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (russian: link=no, Следственный комитет Российской Федерации) has since January 2011 been the main federal investigating authority in Russia. Its name (' ...

from 2012 to 2016 and currently seves as a deputy in the 8th State Duma. *

Pavel Krasheninnikov Pavel Vladimirovich Krasheninnikov (russian: Павел Владимирович Крашенинников, born 21 June 1964 in Polevskoy, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union) is a Russian jurist and politician. From 1998 to August 1999 ( Sergei ...

(1989), a Russian politician and jurist who served as the 5th Minister of Justice of Russia from 1998 to 1999. * Andrey Selivanov (1995), a Russian chess player, the World Chess Solving Champion of 2003. * Atakhan Abilov (1999), a

Talysh Talysh may refer to: *Talysh people *History of Talysh *Talysh language *Talysh Khanate, in existence from 1747 to 1828 *Talysh-Mughan Autonomous Republic, a self-declared autonomy, which existed briefly in the south of Azerbaijan in 1993 *Talysh M ...

national minority and human rights activist from

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Journals

Students at the Law School publish several legal journals:https://www.usla.ru/ch.php?mid=19&cid=19&obid=81 * ''Lawyer'' * ''Injust''

References

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