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Specializations within this programme

  • Legal Support of Management Activity in the field of Law Enforcement

    Jurisprudence (Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure)

    The goal of the Master's degree programme is to train graduates for educational, law enforcement, and research activities as higher school teachers, judges, law enforcement officers, public servants, or lawyers.

    The programme is aimed at providing theoretical and practical knowledge in the field of criminal and criminal-procedural law to form knowledge, skills in law-making, law enforcement, expert and consulting, organizational activities.

    A specific feature of this Master's degree programme is its practical orientation. A graduate who has mastered the programme is able to participate in the development of regulatory legal acts, substantiate and make decisions, take actions related to the implementation of legal norms, protect the rights and legitimate interests of the citizens and legal entities, provide legal assistance, advise on legal issues of individuals and legal entities, analyze and apply judicial statistics, including the preparation of judicial acts and adjudication.


  • Theory and Practice of Crime Prevention

    The goal of the program is to form students’ legal conscious which is connected to an intolerant attitude towards crime, and also the development of skills and abilities of scientific understanding of the issues of countering crime.

    Master’s students study:

    • The status and trends of crime in modern society;
    • Determinants of the occurrence, development, and function of social relationships and their effects on the state of crime;
    • The conceptual basics of countering crime on various levels;
    • The structure of law enforcement organizations of the Russian Federation and foreign governments;
    • Peculiarities in international legal cooperation for the fight against crime.

    Areas of research:

    • Methodological issues in domestic criminology.
    • Criminal and legal problems in the opposition of crime in the sphere of economic safety.
    • Victimological aspects of preventing crime.
    • Conceptual basics for the development of the modern penitentiary system.
    • Tendencies in Russian penal policy in the sphere of counteracting drug use.
    • Criminal, legal, and criminological problems of counteracting drug use.
  • Administrative, Finance Law

    The goal of this program is to prepare highly qualified personnel with fundamental knowledge in the areas of administrative and financial law.

    The contents of the education are aimed at an in-depth understanding of the problems of financial and administrative rights, which guarantees graduates to work in the system of the organs of governmental and municipal power, including tax and customs organs.

    Deep understanding of the issues of investment activities, banking and insurance law, the interaction between governments and business give graduates the chance to work successfully in the sphere of financial legal consulting.

    Academic activities are aimed at the formation of the skills of analytical work, engaging in legal expert analysis, and the ability to solve various practical issues of legal activity.

    The system of education is based on the need for public and legal regulation of relations in the modern market economy.

  • Rights of Governmental and Municipal Services

    Aimed at the preparation of highly qualified specialists for work in federal government bodies, state organs of subjects of the Russian Federation, in organs of local self-management, in government and municipal institutions, organizations in the public sector, and in international organizations. Graduates have the ability two work in leading positions of organs of governmental and municipal management and in the management systems of state enterprises.

  • Legal Support of Personnel Management

    This program is designed to prepare specialists of the master’s level who are able to ensure the legal management of personnel in compliance with all legal requirements taking into account the parties of the labor relationship into account.

    Graduates have scientific and practical knowledge in the areas of labor law, social security law, insurance law, social partnership law, the peculiarities of protecting the rights and interests of employers within the norms of labor law.

  • Legal Regulation of Property Relations

    This program is designed to train lawyers who can provide legal support for company’s activities and lawyers engaging in judicial consulting in domestic and international firms.

    The main goal is to teach master’s students modern techniques and methods for ensuring effective legal protection of property rights for citizens and legal entities.

    Graduates will acquire the skills and abilities necessary to them as lawyers of both civil activities and as lawyers in the sphere of legal support and protection of businesses, and will gain knowledge about the procedural peculiarities of engaging in property disputes.

  • Legal Management in Healthcare

    This program is designed for training lawyers in the area of healthcare.

    The program also allows for continued study for workers in the healthcare sphere in the area of professional knowledge in legal regulation of medical activity.

  • Business Law, Commercial Law

    This program focuses on the in-depth study of issues and tendencies of legal regulation of entrepreneurial and professional activities in various spheres of the economy:

    • banking,
    • insurance,
    • appraisal,
    • auditing,
    • advertising,
    • construction,
    • the securities market, and others.

      • The knowledge acquired by masters in the course of study allow them to find purpose in law enforcement activities of economic entities, law forms, public defense offices, the court of arbitration, courts of general jurisdiction, and more.

  • Natural Resource Law, Environmental Law, Land Law

    This master’s program is designed to offer in-depth knowledge in the areas of environmental protection and natural resource management and territorial relations.

  • Theory and History of Government and Law, History of Legal Studies

    The main goal of the “Theory and history of government and law, history of legal studies” program is the training of highly qualified specialists for work in the educational sphere, legal justice, and other law enforcement activities, and also in the law-making activities of governmental bodies of power.

    Objectives of master’s student’s professional activities include:

    • Preparation of normative legal acts,
    • justification and acceptance within official duties decisions and actions related to the implementation of legal norms;
    • drafting of legal documents
    • legal assistance, advice on questions of law
    • implementation of legal examination of normative legal acts;
    • implementation of organizational and managerial functions;
    • conducting research on theoretical and legal issues;
    • participation in conducting scientific research in accordance to the profile of their professional activities.
  • Labor Law, Social Security Law

    This program includes in-depth training of students in the theories of labor rights and social security law, the development of the ability to identify current and prospective developmental tendencies of the sciences of labor law and social security law, and the relevant legislation.

    Theoretical training is accompanied by the acquisition of skills for solving specific, applied tasks which arrive during employment.

    Graduates of this program are highly qualified specialists in the area of labor law, social security and personnel management and have a good chance to work in government and private organizations on the national and international level.

  • Criminal Law, Criminology, Penal Rights

    Graduates who complete this program have the knowledge necessary for work in investigative and judicial organs, the public defender’s office, and law enforcement. They are qualified specialists in the area of penal law, criminology, and criminal law who have the skills of crime qualification, methods of handing out sentences, issues of executing criminal penalties, and application of other methods of criminal and legal nature.

    During their study, masters gain the skills of criminological investigative methodologies. Studying in this program allows graduates to engage in lawmaking, law enforcement, research, consulting, and academic work.

  • Criminal Process, Criminalistics, and Judicial Examination

    This program is aimed at the preparation of highly qualified specialists in the law enforcement field and in criminal justice.

    Graduates of the program are able to realize themselves in the law-making and law-enforcement process and participate in expert consultations and scientific research work.

    The education obtained allows graduates of the program to take positions in the office of the public prosecutor of the Russian Federation, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, and in different legislative organs, in law and in courts.

  • Economic Expert Analysis in Legal Proceedings

    In the process of education within this program:

    • Knowledge about financial and economical documents and carriers of evidential information in forensic accounting, credit, and tax analyses are formed;
    • Study of the methodological foundations of collecting and researching financial and economic information;
    • Modern capabilities, methods, and principles of forensic financial and economic analysis;
    • Modern expert techniques of economic analyses necessary for forensic analysis in judicial proceedings.
  • Energy Rights

    This program is dedicated to the training of researchers and specialists in the field of energy, electricity, fuel-energy complex, and nuclear energy, with a focus on the acquisition of practical skills of legal regulation in the field of energy law.

    The master’s program is aimed at the additional vocational training of specialists of the energy sector.

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