Today, the Ural Law Academy (University) implements programs of secondary vocational education, higher vocational education, postgraduate education (doctoral studies, postgraduate studies) and additional education in accordance with a license allowing educational activities. Among many universities of a legal orientation, the Ural University (Academy) enjoys well-deserved authority.
Structure
The Ural Academy, the legal orientation of which is already implied in the title, really does not go beyond the field of jurisprudence in preparing students. It consists of several institutes that also study aspects of domestic and foreign law. The Ural Academy is legal from beginning to end.
The institutions that are part of its structure are the following: the Institute of Justice, the Institute of Business Law, the Institute of the Prosecutor of the Ural State Law Academy. In addition, in the structure of USLU there are two more units: the institute of international and state law, the institute of retraining and advanced training of personnel.
Students who are trained by the Ural Academy are the legal protection of the future society of our country. The training takes place at the faculties: preparation of bachelors of law, master's degree, evening faculty, SOP (shortened educational programs), regional correspondence, pre-university training, additional education, training and advanced training for judges, doctoral and postgraduate studies.
Institutes
All institutes successfully function, are engaged in scientific research in the field of jurisprudence. The Institute of the Prosecutor's Office of the Ural State Law Academy regularly selects candidates for applicants, and this is not easy: there, in addition to excellent health, considerable knowledge is required. The pass rate is traditionally very high. But the institute of the prosecutor's office of the Ural State Law Academy has never felt a shortage of people who want to get a legal education here.
Its goal is to train qualified personnel for the prosecution authorities of the Far East, Siberia and the Urals, and it fulfills its obligations as required by the state educational standard. At this institute there are almost three times more budget places than paid ones, nevertheless, the competition is very large. This has always been different and now the whole Ural Law Academy is different, the institute of the prosecutor’s office is no different in this respect from other departments. For example, to become a lawyer at the Institute of Justice is no less difficult.
Story
The whole story began with the academy, not even in the Urals, but in the very distant Siberian city of Irkutsk in 1931 with the Siberian Institute of Soviet Law organized there. The Ural Academy - the legal body - was still very far from its birth. The first set of the Irkutsk Institute was small - only 56 students, but there were many teachers - as many as fifteen people. In 1934, the institute moved to Sverdlovsk and changed its name to Sverdlovsk Law Institute. Even then, lawyers with international renown worked there. Since 2014, the Ural State Law Academy (Yekaterinburg) has come to be called the Ural State Law University.
Activities
For all the years of the existence of the SJI USUA, more than sixty thousand specialists of the highest class have been trained, who have made a tangible contribution to state and legal construction, and have contributed in every way to the best work of the judiciary and the entire judicial system. Advocacy and notaries developed, as well as banking, investment, insurance activities, which the Ural Academy promoted in every way. The legal training received at the academy allowed the graduates of this university to occupy very responsible public positions. The Academy also has many awards.
Famous graduates
The Ural Law Academy has presented a ticket to life for many wonderful people. For example, to the Chairman of the Committee for Constitutional Oversight of the USSR, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Law, Professor S. S. Alekseev; The Chairman of the Supreme Court E. A. Smolentsev; Minister of Justice, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Professor V.F. Yakovlev; Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation, Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yu. Y. Chaika; USSR Prosecutor General N. S. Trubin; Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation P.V. Krasheninnikov; Judges of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation G. A. Zhilin, L. O. Krasavchikova and O. S. Khokhryakova; Judges of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation G. N. Popov, V. Yu. Zaitsev, S. A. Razumov, V. N. Podminogin, V. P. Stepanov, L. A. Korolev and many, many others.
Awards
Year after year, awards found their heroes. Considering the life of the Academy only from 2004, there was not a single one without an award. The Ural State Law Academy has won the laureate medal in the nomination "One Hundred Best Russian Universities". The European quality of education was confirmed the following year by Professor VD Perevalov, the rector of the academy, when he became a laureate of the International Program "Leaders of the 21st Century".
Then, in 2006, a gold medal from the French Association appeared, which promotes industry. Even the food industry recognized the UrGYuA factory, which deals with canteens and buffets, as the best, and the academy received another award - the Golden Crane, a national award. The corporate newspaper "Lawyer" got the second place at the Interuniversity Festival of Periodical Newspapers, and here the students and teachers of the Academy showed their creative talents, and the Ural Law Academy increased its fame.
University sports
In a rare university, sport is given as much attention as in the Ural Law University, which by old habit still sounds like the Ural State Law Academy. The USLA of Yekaterinburg is best remembered for the competitions that have been repeatedly won by students of this university. Here, sports events are held very often, since almost all sports are held in high esteem here. Spartakiads, Cups of institutes on football, basketball, volleyball and many other kinds are held. The Ural State Law Academy takes part in sporting events of various levels, and very often this participation is accompanied by medals of various merits.
Groups of judo, sambo, boxing, arm wrestling, freestyle wrestling, aerobics, skiing are constantly engaged, it is even impossible to list everything. It is quite possible to be proud of university coaches, because the victories that their pets bring to the university, including at the world championships, are also difficult to count. They do not even work for the sake of victories, here the honor is high pedagogy and a purely human attitude to all students, even those who won’t bring victories due to various circumstances. The Ural State Law Academy always finds students who can be entrusted with their sports honor.
International activity
The academic mobility of the academy is facilitated by international relations, which are very valued here. There are many scientific projects that are being studied together with a number of the best universities in Europe, the CIS and the USA. Seminars and summer schools, where they study French, German, European law, have already become a tradition. Often dissertations are defended in two languages, student and teacher internships are conducted abroad. Lectures by university professors at foreign universities and return visits by foreign professors to Ural University are also traditional.
Since 2007, the Ural Law Academy has become the basis for the Eurasian Legal Congress. Yekaterinburg willingly accepts scientists - theorists and practitioners, as well as authorized representatives from law enforcement bodies and authorities, specialists from many areas of jurisprudence, representatives of public organizations and other universities not only Russian but also foreign.
New frontiers
In the ratings held by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Academy constantly took places in the top lines. The rating of universities "Education of the state elite" in 2006 and many other ratings is also always in the forefront. Teachers, professors and graduate students participate in regional, national and international seminars and conferences, scientific and methodological events are traditional here, so many leading and foreign universities take part in them. In 2014, the rating of Expert RA agency included USLU in the list of the best universities in the CIS and assigned it an E rating class.
Every year in April, the University hosts Science Days, where federal and regional government agencies, representatives of Russian and foreign universities and organizations take part in a scientific and practical conference. In parallel, the Days of Student Science are held, as well as the All-Russian Student Scientific and Practical Conference on the Evolution of Russian Law.
For several years now, the University has been the base for holding such an event as the All-Russian Open Competition of Student Scientific Works in Law, which is held by the Ministry of Education and Science. University students and graduate students were repeatedly encouraged by scholarships of the President, the Government of the Russian Federation, the governor of the region, the academic council of the Ural State Law Academy. Students were repeatedly marked financially by various foundations as winners of olympiads and contests.
Library and leisure
The scientific library grew simultaneously with the university and in seventy-five years it has become the largest book depository of legal literature - there are more than a million copies of various publications, including the Russian literature fund, where there are books of the eighteenth century, and a foreign fund, where there are many prominent representatives of jurisprudence Western countries.
There are also extensive funds of journal and fiction. A special attitude to the collection of pricelessly rare books and manuscripts of the early seventeenth century, which includes political and legal writings in Latin, is that their skin and parchment breathe in such antiquity that they are picked up with indispensable reverence.
University students have many excellent opportunities to spend their free time without learning. They are engaged in vocals, folklore, choreography, write poetry and play musical instruments. The university is also famous for the theatrical activities of its students. The academic choir, restored within the walls of the university ten years ago, was once known throughout the country. The choir members hope to return to the university its former glory in this field. All creative teams of the university are regular participants in interuniversity festivals and competitions. Many of them are both laureates and diplomats.