Summary of Degree Programme
40.04.01 Legal Studies
No
Full-time, 120
RUSENG
Instruction in Russian with some courses in English
training is aimed at training lawyers with a fundamental civil law
education the acquisition of practical skills that can be applied both in expert work and in representing the interests of individuals and organizations
coverage of all areas of private law, which allows profiling on private law as a whole and does not limit the listener to a narrowly focused area
teaching staff, which includes the best specialists in various fields of private law, who have successfully proved themselves both in practical and scientific activities
participation in discussions on various problems of legal regulation in the field of private law acquiring the skills of conducting fundamental research,
writing relevant scientific papers the formation of high professional competencies that will allow the listener to become a high-class specialist in any field-wide
coverage of the experience of foreign countries and its comparison with the Russian approach in the regulation of public relations conducting extracurricular activities aimed at developing the communication skills of program students
The Master's program "Private Law" aims to train a professional lawyer who will be able to apply the knowledge gained in the process of carrying out his activities. Taking into account the requirements of the Bologna teaching system allows you to concentrate on the most important aspects in the field of private law. Focusing on current issues allows you to develop a range of skills that a graduate of the program must possess. The teaching system aims to develop the student's professional competencies, which include: the ability to reflect (evaluate and process) the mastered scientific methods and methods of activity the ability to independently master new research methods, change the scientific and production profile of their activities the ability to improve and develop one's intellectual and cultural level, to build a trajectory of professional development and career the ability to analyze, verify, evaluate the completeness of information in the course of professional activity, if necessary, fill in and synthesize the missing information ability to conduct professional, including research activities in an international environment the ability to formulate goals, set specific research objectives in fundamental and applied areas of jurisprudence and propose scientifically based ways to solve them the ability to independently organize professional activities, building it on the basis of legal norms the ability to organize and maintain communications with research institutions and information and analytical services on information exchange, scientific advice and expertise is able to draw up and present draft analytical documents in accordance with current regulations, distributing them according to legal force able to collect, process and interpret the data necessary to form judgments on various types of problems based on their legal analysis
The creators of the program were guided by the need to build training on the combination of disciplines that form a fundamental component of classical legal education in the field of private law with modern developments in the theory and methodology of private law. The objective of the program is to ensure the comprehensive nature of the training of masters. The program provides for the unity of educational and research processes in accordance with international training standards, it contains an integrated approach to general theoretical studies of private law, which implies the interconnection and interdependence of legal principles with the economy, social sphere, and other subsystems of society. This approach is designed to help students develop the skills of legal analysis of regulatory processes based on domestic and foreign experience based on modern methodology. The proposed model directly determines the following methodological approaches: the availability of basic courses that combine the formulation of theoretical problems and the study of practice in key areas of private law; availability of a certain number of elective courses; the presence in the curriculum of the forms of knowledge control, which make it possible to develop such important practical skills as the preparation of expert opinions, public discussion on legal topics; · The obligatory study of foreign experience in law-making and law enforcement activities, which allows increasing the breadth of theoretical views of students and at the same time also has practical benefits.
This degree programme of HSE University is adapted for students with special educational needs (SEN) and disabilities. Special assistive technology and teaching aids are used for collective and individual learning of students with SEN and disabilities. The specific adaptive features of the programme are listed in each subject's full syllabus and are available to students through the online Learning Management System.
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Vice Rector Sergey Yu. Roshchin