International Law Institute under the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation

The International Law Institute was established in 1992 as an experimental university to ensure the development of programs for specialized training of lawyers who are ready to take part in the formation of the Russian market economy. Until 2005, this university was not a state institution, but it was one of the educational institutions of the Ministry of Justice. Then he got the status of an independent university in accordance with the current legislation. Until that moment the name was longer: the International Law Institute under the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.

Almost a quarter of a century: results

Almost twenty five years the institute and all its ten branches function successfully; Almost thirty thousand graduates with secondary and higher education came out of these walls. The International Law Institute issues state diplomas, therefore there are no problems with employment with the owners of this document. All of them successfully work in the bodies of the General Prosecutor's Office, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the courts, local and federal government bodies, the notary and the bar, at various enterprises, regardless of the form of ownership.

At the same time, the International Law Institute and its branches train almost ten thousand students. Here there is a law faculty, where both bachelors and masters are preparing for legal activity, graduate school is functioning. The International Law Institute attaches great importance to the existing in its structure the Center for Continuing Education.

There are retraining and upgrading. Over the past years, more than twelve thousand employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Federal Customs Service, the Ministry of Justice, the Bailiff Service, state registration, cartography and cadastre, judicial departments and many other municipal, state and private structures were able to do so.

Team

And at that time, when the International Juridical Institute under the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation had not shortened its name, state funds were never attracted by this university. Nevertheless, an excellent own, technically most modern material base for training was created.

A highly qualified team of teachers for eighty percent - people with degrees. In total there are about 800 employees in the team, 437 of them are teaching.

Besides them, the training process is complemented by practitioners, including famous lawyers, heads of regional and federal law enforcement agencies, courts and many other specialized organizations. Both students and all employees who loved their place of work and study - the International Law Institute under the Ministry of the Russian Federation together with its branches - have always contributed to the creation of a modern civil society, actively participated in the life of the cities where their lives passed, and thereby increased the level Legal culture of people inhabiting these places.

Educational process

In the educational process, the institute has always actively used information technologies, thanks to which the department of distance learning and external studies was created and is actively working. The International Law Institute under the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation already in the first years of its existence has established itself as an institution of excellent quality of student training. The use of modern technologies has helped not so much in Moscow as in the regions, and especially in the part-time students.

Here, the newest methods of teaching are used, the creative and intellectual components of all educational activity are increased, continuity and continuity of education is ensured. Educational technologies are being developed and implemented, allowing students to use the existing information resources to the maximum. To electronic libraries, not only Moscow International Law Institute has unlimited access, but also all branch students. In libraries, by the way, there is a full complex of educational literature and methodical, which is so necessary for students.

Structure

The Masters, who are currently studying more than four hundred people, the International Law Institute prepares for two specialized programs. Graduate students are engaged in four specialties, there are already more than two hundred together with the applicants. Over thirty graduate students have completed their studies, seventeen of them have successfully defended their Ph.D. theses, others are preparing for this step. Thirty percent of graduate students received an invitation to cooperate with their native institute as teachers.

To ensure the completeness of the educational process, special departments have been created at the Faculty of Law, where such subjects are studied: the theory and history of the state and law; civil law; Criminal law disciplines; General humanities and natural sciences; International and European law; Business law; Constitutional and municipal law; linguistics. The International Law Institute Moscow knows very well, because residents often use gratuitous advice that they receive from practicing students.

The science

In the most active way, without the slightest break since the opening, the institute is engaged in scientific research. For the last ten years, the teaching staff and postgraduate students have prepared for printing and published one hundred and twenty-three scientific works - this is about fifteen hundred printed sheets (and sixteen pages of tightly typed text in one printed printing sheet!), And the circulation was 67 190 copies. In addition, more than one hundred and eighty articles, which cover the most diverse branches of law, were written and published by the Institute's staff.

Many teachers of the Institute cooperate with legislators and help create both local and federal laws, as well as carry out legal expertise of normative acts. At the institute, the research scientific laboratory of civil science, named after DI Meyer, successfully functions. There, a special space is created for the study of the cultural environment where legal science is developing and young people are being brought up with the example of leaders who are resolute, widely competent and ready for effective action.

Students and trainees

The International Law Institute, the feedback of students about whom are full of warmth and enthusiasm, cares very much about how and how young people live that connected their lives with jurisprudence. Since 2001, the university publishes the journal "Vestnik MUI", which provides all sorts of scientific information. Branches also have their own printed organs. Very well organized student practice, which, along with theoretical training plays a huge role in the future of each student.

The university cooperates for this purpose with many departments and organizations, but it should be noted that the practice of the future lawyer, which was held in the walls of the Federation Council, the State Duma, legislative and executive authorities of the regions, as well as in the system of the Ministry of Justice, arbitration courts, the bar, the prosecutor's office, Chamber, regional municipal courts, the largest banking structures, in any of these places, will add much to the knowledge and practical skills of a budding lawyer.

Charity practice

In addition, the institute and all branches have many legal clinics, where low-income citizens can receive legal aid free of charge. Students and teachers willingly participate in such assistance to the population. Along with this, students are required to practice.

This is how the direction of training and professional skills are formed. Student societies in science are also fruitful, where scholarship holders of the President of the Russian Federation, Governments, as well as holders of grants, prize winners of olympiads and so on, participate.

International activity

The scientific society of students, created in the Institute, actively participates with interuniversity competitions, scientific and practical conferences, and in the work of the laboratory of civilization. International programs are actively developing.

Only in recent years more than six hundred students have visited abroad to get acquainted with the legal systems of other states, with the jurisprudence of the European Community, with practices of international arbitration, the law of international entrepreneurship and so on.

Over two hundred students and professors from scientific and educational institutions of various foreign countries took part in scientific and practical conferences, international scientific round tables, visited seminars and other events organized by the International Law Institute.

Faculties

The faculty, in theory, there is only one in the institute - a legal one. But extensive departments may well be so called. The specific weight in the structure of the Institute of the Department of Distance Technologies, the Magistracy, the Department of secondary vocational education, the Center for Additional Professional Education is also huge. The Faculty of Law is the first department in the Institute, and after reorganization and merger with the Faculty of Regional Education, it has become the largest one. The higher education and the diploma this faculty managed to give to more than ten thousand students.

Now students are preparing for the specialty "Jurisprudence" and in the direction of preparation - also "Jurisprudence". Training can be conducted by correspondence, full-time and part-time and full-time. Now the faculty trains 667 students, and only 124 of them study internally. The material base, which the faculty owns, allows to conduct training at the highest level - both professional and methodical, as it is modern and equipped with the latest technology.

Equipment

Students and teachers have a courtroom where criminal and civil litigation trials are conducted, it is here that for the first time students try their hand at preliminary preparation and subsequent trials. In addition, the rest of the studies are held in specially equipped auditoriums, where international, European, constitutional and municipal law is studied, as well as criminal law and criminalistics. A corresponding audience is equipped for each of these sections of the training.

For example, the audience of criminalistics and criminal law has all the conditions for conducting the necessary investigative actions: it is forensic ballistics, handwriting expertise, and the study of cold steel and its replacement items. Here you can make an impression of human traces, identify the offender by external signs, here they learn to conduct a search job, inspect and search the scene of incidents and so on.

Also excellently equipped and the audience, where they study the theory and history of state and law, foreign languages. And still there are laboratories of a civilization, about which it has already been told above, is a real pride of institute. To relieve tension after a busy study at the faculty, there is a well-equipped gym.