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V. F. Yakovlev Ural State Law University (USLU, Russian: Уральский государственный юридический университет имени В. Ф. Яковлева, УрГЮУ), formerly the Ural State Law Academy (USLA, Russian: Уральская государственная юридическая академия, УрГЮА) and the Sverdlovsk Law Institute (Russian: Свердловский юридический институт, СЮИ), is a public, research university which includes law schools, colleges, faculties and other public graduate and undergraduate educational institutions. USLU's main campus is situated in the Yekaterinburg, Russia. Founded in 1918, USLU is one of the largest law schools in Russia. USLU is organized into 15 schools, colleges, and institutes, located in Yekaterinburg.
National Universities rankings ranked the academy in 5 place of the best Law schools in the Russian Federation. 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 by the decision of the Government of the Soviet Union based on the Faculty of Law of Irkutsk State University. On 1 August 1934 the resolution of the Government of the Soviet Union transferred the Siberian Institute of Soviet Law from Irkutsk to Sverdlovsk. In 1935, the Siberian Institute of Soviet Law was renamed to Sverdlovsk Law Institute (Russian: Свердловский юридический институт). The institute carried the name of Procurator General of the USSR Andrey Vyshinsky from 1954 to 1962 and after Prosecutor General of the USSR Roman Rudenko 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 President of the High Court of Arbitration of Russia Veniamin Yakovlev.




Structure






= Institutes

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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

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Department of Administrative Law (Head: Assoc. Prof. Sergey Khazanov)
Department of Civil Law (Head: Prof. Bronislav Gongalo)
Department of Civil Procedure (Head: Prof. Vladimir Yarkov)
Department of Constitutional Law (Head: Prof. Marat Salikov)
Department of Corporate Law (Head: Prof. Vladimir Belykh)
Department of Criminal Law (Head: Prof. Zinaida Neznamova)
Department of Criminalistics (Head: Prof. Alexander Belyakov)
Department of Financial Law (Head: Prof. Danil Vinnitsky)
Department of History of State and Law (Head: Assoc. Prof. Natalya Zipunnikova)
Department of IT Law (Head: Prof. Pyotr Kuznetsov)
Department of International Law (Head: Prof. Lev Lazutin)
Department of Judicial Activity and Criminal Procedure (Head: Prof. Vladimir Bozrov)
Department of Labour Law (Head: Prof. Svetlana Golovina)
Department of Land Law, Urban Planning Law, and Environmental Law (Head: Prof. Andrey Vinnitsky)
Department of Legal Theory (Head: Prof. Dmitry Gribanov)
Department of Physical Education and Sport (Head: Assoc. Prof. Valery Petrov)
Department of Prosecutor's Activity (Head: Prof. Yevgeny Yergashev)
Department of Russian and Foreign Languages (Head: Assoc. Prof. Natalya Yushkova)
Department of Social and Humanitarian Disciplines (Head: Prof. Alexander Mitin)




Science


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




International Relations


USLU maintains and develops relationships with a number of leading universities in Europe and the United States.




Alumni



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




= Famous alumni

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Sergei Alexeyev (1949), a Soviet and Russian legal scholar, one of the co-authors of the Constitution of Russia of 1993.
Veniamin Yakovlev (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 President of the High Court of Arbitration of Russia from 1992 to 2005.
Alexander Karlin (1972), a politician who served as the 5th Governor of Altai Krai from 2005 to 2018.
Yury Skuratov (1973), a Russian jurist who served as the 5th Prosecutor-General of Russia from 1995 to 2000.
Yury Biryukov (1975), a Russian jurist who served as the First Deputy Prosecutor-General of Russia from 2000 to 2006 and the Senator from Kalmykia from 2014 to 2019.
Yury Chaika (1976), a Russian jurist who served as the 6th Minister of Justice of Russia from 1999 to 2006 and the 7th Prosecutor-General of Russia 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 during the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election.
Alexander Yevstifeyev (1980), a Russian politician who served as the 4th Head of Mari El from 2017 to 2022.
Vladislav Tumanov (1983), a Russian politician who served as the 2nd Governor of Pskov Oblast from 1992 to 1996
Vasily Piskaryov (1984), a lawyer who served as the Deputy Head of the Investigative Committee of Russia from 2012 to 2016 and currently seves as a deputy in the 8th State Duma.
Pavel Krasheninnikov (1989), a Russian politician and jurist who served as the 5th Minister of Justice of Russia from 1998 to 1999.
Andrey Selivanov (1995), a chess player, the World Chess Solving Champion of 2003.
Atakhan Abilov (1999), a Talysh national minority and human rights activist from Azerbaijan.




Journals


Students at the Law School publish several legal journals:

Lawyer
Injust




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