The Faculty of Law

The Faculty of Law was founded in 1916 (the year of university foundation). It consisted of 5 departments, where 53 students were trained. The first dean of the Faculty was V.F. Matveev, Doctor of administrative law, professor of Kazan University.

In summer 1921 the Faculty of History and Philology and the Faculty of Law were combined and the Faculty of Social Sciences was established. In 1948 the Faculty of Law was restored. A.P. Nikienko, the former military officier, became the dean of the Faculty.

In 1953 first experts in law graduated from the University. M.N.Averbuh, the chief councillor of justice and M.G.Pismanik, Doctor of philosophy, professor of Perm Technical University were among the first graduates.

In 1956 the training at correspondence department was set off and in 1959 the education at part-time department was introduced. In 1962 35 students of correspondence department graduated from the University as qualified lawyers. In 1965 first students of part-time department finished their studies.

I.M. Kislitsin, E.A. Golovanova, A.A. Ushakov, A.V. Rybin, E.I. Kovalenko, V.A. Pohmelkin, and also well-known doctors of jurisprudence such as D.N. Bahrah (a former student of the faculty), V.V. Pugachev, A.N. Talalaev, V.P. Shahmatov, I.S. Noj, V.D. Dorohov made up the staff of the faculty of that period. Since 1948 till 1952 a senior lecturer I.M. Kislitsin occupied the post of the dean of the Faculty. Then the faculty was headed by senior lecturers E.I. Kovalenko and A.V. Rybin, professor O.I. Tiunov. Since 1990 professor S.G. Mihailov has been occupying the post of the dean.

The training of students is carried out in two main directions: Jurisprudence and Social Work. The students can get full-time education (5 years) or they can study by correspondence (for 6 years). The Faculty includes eight deparments:

l of Theory and History of State and Law

l of Civil Law and Civil Procedure

l of Constitution and Finance Law

l of Labour Law and Social Security

l of Criminal Law and Public Prosecuting Supervision

l of Criminal Law and Criminalistics

l of International and European Law

l of Social Work

Students are educated by highly-qualified lecturers. Among the faculty graduates there are well-known polititians, deputies to the state Duma and the Council of Federation, statesmen, as well as leading lawyers of the Russian Federation.

The faculty of law has close contacts with all legal institutions, law departments, social services, educational establishments both in the city of Perm and Perm area. Moreover, it has started developing its international collaboration with a number of foreign countries, including Germany, the UK, France and the USA.

Дата добавления: 2015-07-20