Faculty of Law

Profiles:

• Civil law;
• Criminal law;
• State law;
• Public law;
• International law.
• Bachelor’s degree in Law.

The period of study is 4 years for full-time study,

4,6 — on correspondence/part-time mode of study.

Main subjects studied:

— Introduction to the field of study;
• Fundamentals of Project Activities in Law;
• Organisational Behaviour;
• Foreign language;
• Foreign Language in Law;
• Russian language and basics of business communication in law;
• Philosophy;
• History (Russian history, general history);
• General and legal psychology;
• Physical education and sport;
• Safety of vital activities;
• Economics;
• History of the Russian state and law;
• History of the state and law of foreign countries;
• Theory of State and Law;
• Constitutional law;
• Administrative law;
• Civil law;
• Civil procedure;
• Arbitration;
• Labour law;
• Criminal law;
• Criminal procedure;
• Environmental law;
• Land Law;
• Financial law;
• Tax law;
• Commercial law;
• International Law;
• Private International Law;
• Criminalistics;
• Criminology;
• Social security law;
• Family Law;
• Information technologies in legal practice;
• Professional ethics.

Profiles:
State-legal specialisation;
Civil law specialisation.

Qualification — lawyer.

Duration of education: 5 years for full-time mode of study,
5.6 years for correspondence course of study.

Main subjects studied:

• Introduction to the profession;
• Project Management in Law;
• Organisational Behaviour;
• Foreign Language;
• Foreign Language in Law;
• Russian Language and Business Communication in Law;
• Philosophy;
• History (Russian history, general history);
• General and legal psychology;
• Physical education and sport;
• Life Safety;
• Theory of state and law;
• Constitutional law of Russia;
• Administrative law;
• History of the Russian State and Law;
• History of State and Law of Foreign Countries;
• Civil law;
• Civil procedure (civil law);
• Criminal law;
• Criminal procedural law;
• International law;
• Environmental law;
• Financial law;
• Criminalistics;
• Criminology;
• Law Enforcement;
• Fundamentals of National Security Theory;
• Professional ethics and intercultural communication in law;
• Information technologies in legal practice.

Duration of education:
Full-time mode: 2 years
Correspondence course: 2 years 6 months.

Profile: Advocacy, investigation and prosecutorial activity

Main subjects studied:

• Systems analysis, decision making and project management in justice;
• Leadership, team building and personal development techniques;
• Foreign languages in professional practice;
• Professional Ethics and Intercultural Communication in Law;
• Current issues in criminal procedure;
• Speech Communication in Legal Practice;
• Use of the results of operational investigation activity in pre-trial proceedings;
• Current problems of anti-corruption activities and legal awareness;
• Linguistic competence in criminal proceedings;
• Record-keeping and procedural case management;
• Problems of evidence and proof in criminal proceedings.

Profile: Civil Law

Main subjects studied:

• System analysis, decision making and project management in litigation;
• Leadership, team building and personal development techniques;
• Foreign languages in professional practice;
• Professional Ethics and Intercultural Communication in Law;
• Current problems of civil law;
• Civil law regulation of public procurement;
• Bank transactions;
• Insurance law;
• Civil law in the main categories of science and legislation;
• Theory of civil liability;
• Civil law norms and notarial practice of their application.

Profile: Civil, Arbitration and Administrative Procedure

Main subjects studied:

• System analysis, decision making and project management in legal proceedings;
• Leadership, team building and personal development technologies;
• Foreign languages in professional activity;
• Professional ethics and intercultural communication in law;
• Current problems of civil procedure;
• Current Problems of Enforcement Proceedings;
• Current problems of arbitration;
• Comparative civil procedure;
• Contemporary problems of evidence in civil, arbitration and administrative proceedings;
• Current problems of administrative proceedings;
• International legal means of settlement of international economic disputes.

Profile: Ensuring the administration of justice through procedural and forensic means of proof

Main subjects studied:

• System analysis, decision making and project management in justice;
• Leadership, team building and personal development techniques;
• Foreign languages in professional activity;
• Professional ethics and intercultural communication in law;
• Current problems in criminalistics;
• Criminal profiling;
• Current problems of using electronic means of evidence;
• Features of evidence in different categories of civil cases;
• Basics of forensic science theory;
• Genesis and trends in the development of forensic science;
• Forensic knowledge in court proceedings.

Profile: Legal support for managerial and financial activities

Main subjects studied:

• System analysis, decision making and project management in justice;
• Leadership, team building and personal development technologies;
• Foreign languages in professional activity;
• Professional ethics and intercultural communication in law;
• Current issues in administrative law;
• Constitutional-legal regulation of administrative and financial activity;
• Current problems of administrative procedural law;
• Administrative and legal disputes;
• Problems of control (supervision) in public administration;
• Current problems of financial law;
• Tax disputes.

Profile: Judiciary, Public Prosecution, Law Enforcement and Human Rights

Main subjects studied:

• System analysis, decision making and project management in the judiciary;
• Leadership, team building and personal development techniques;
• Foreign languages in professional practice;
• Professional Ethics and Intercultural Communication in the Judiciary;
• Current problems in legal practice;
• Speech communication in legal practice;
• Lawyer’s activity in modern Russia;
• Current problems of anti-corruption activities and legal consciousness;
• Linguistic Analysis of Law Enforcement Acts;
• Prosecution in modern Russia;
• Judicial protection of rights of citizens and organisations.

Profile: Theory and Practice of Contemporary Criminal Law

Main subjects studied:

• System analysis, decision making and project management in litigation;
• Leadership, team building and personal development techniques;
• Foreign languages in professional activities;
• Professional ethics and intercultural communication in law;
• Contemporary issues in criminal law;
• Criminal and legal protection of life and health;
• Juvenile criminal law;
• History and methodology of criminal law;
• Crimes against public security;
• Execution of punishment;
• Crimes in the field of high technology and digital economy.

Profile: Legal analyst, legal conflictologist

Main subjects studied:

• System analysis, decision making and project management in litigation;
• Leadership, team building and personal development techniques;
• Foreign languages in professional practice;
• Professional ethics and intercultural communication in law;
• Legal Analysis and legal conflictology;
• Information-analytical systems and technologies in legal activity;
• Problems of law enforcement in the Russian Federation;
• Legal examination of legal acts;
• System of methods of resolution of legal conflicts in the Russian Federation;
• Systematisation in law;
• Advocacy in the settlement of legal disputes.

The period of full-time studies is 3 years.

5.1.1 Theoretical and historical legal studies

Main subjects studied:

• Foreign language;
• History and philosophy of Science;
• A special discipline «Problems of Theoretical and Historical Legal Studies».

5.1.2 Public and legal sciences

Main subjects studied:

• Foreign language;
• History and philosophy of Science;
• A special discipline «Public and Legal Sciences».

5.1.3 Private (Civil) Law Sciences

Main subjects studied:

• Foreign language;
• History and philosophy of Science;
• A special discipline «Problems of Private Law (Civil Law) Sciences».

5.1.4 Criminal Justice

Main subjects studied:

• Foreign language;
• History and philosophy of Science;
• Special course «Current problems of criminal sciences».

The general theme of the Department’s research activities is — «Development and research of possibilities to create effective civil law mechanisms to ensure the assertion of Russia as a social-type state».
In 2017-2022 the teaching staff of the Department of Civil Law published 238 scientific works, including 85 publications in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia, 6 — in publications indexed in Web of Science databases, 21 — in foreign publications, and also 16 textbooks.
In 2020 the Department organised and successfully held a conference on improvement of legislation on property rights «Dialogues on Private Law in the South of Russia» together with the Research Centre of Private Law under the President of the Russian Federation.
In 2021 the Department organised and successfully held the All-Russia scientific-practical conference with international participation «Law of Obligations in Russia: Theoretical and Enforcement Problems» together with the Management of the Federal State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography Service of Krasnodar Territory.
In March 2022 the All-Russia conference with international participation «Social orientation of civil legislation: problems of legislation and law enforcement» was organised in Krasnodar region in cooperation with the Department of Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.

The general theme of the Department’s research activities is
— «Current problems of civil, arbitration and administrative proceedings, international, labour and environmental law».
In the period from 2019 to 2022 the teachers of the Department have published 4 monographs, 9 publications indexed in the scientific citation bases Scopus and Web of Science, 78 publications in the journals recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.
Teachers of the department actively participate in international, all-Russian and regional conferences.
The Head of the Department of Civil Procedure and International Law, Doctor of Laws, Professor S. Potapenko was included in the list of the 100 best scientists of Kuban State University according to the achievements of 2017 and 2021.
The head of the department is also:
1) a member of two dissertation councils established in 2022 on the basis of A. Khmyrov Faculty of Law of Kuban State University;
2) editor-in-chief of the journal «Juridical Bulletin of Kuban State University», included in the list of the Higher Attestation Commission.
The Department implements the Master’s Degree Programme «Civil, Arbitration and Administrative Proceedings».

The main research areas are:
— Research on the theory of public legal relations,
— Research on problems of public health law».
In the period from 2018 to 2022 the teachers of the Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law, the Department of Administrative and Financial Law and after their merger — the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law published 5 monographs, 6 publications indexed in the scientific citation bases Scopus and Web of Science, 130 publications in the journals recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
The Department coordinates the publication of the journal » Essays on the latest cameralistics «, which is included in the Russian Scientific Citation Index.
The Department publishes a number of works on problems of public law:
Dzidzoev R.M., Kovtun O.A., Tereshchenko, N.D. Legal status of the federal territory «Sirius»: monograph. — Krasnodar: Kuban State University, 2021. — 259 p.
Luparev E.B. Foreign subject in the administrative process. — Moscow: Prospect, 2022. — 96 p.
Shvets A.V. Normative-legal provision of legitimate interests of subjects of tax legal relations. – Krasnodar, 2018.
The department has participated in the organisation of a number of international conferences, including «The Faculty of Law of Kuban State University: 60 years of service to science and practice» (2018), All-Russian conference of scientific and practical conference dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Constitution of the Russian Federation (2018).
The Department trains postgraduate students in the specialisation 5.1.2 Public Law (State Law).

The general theme of the research work of the Department is «Criminalistic doctrine on the laws of evidence».
The scientific school of A. Khmyrov, continued by his disciples and followers under the leadership of A. Rudenko, Doctor of Law, successfully operates within the framework of this theme at the Department.
In the period from 2019 to 2021, the professorial and teaching staff of the Department of Criminalistics and Legal Informatics published more than 100 scientific works, 45 of which were published in leading refereed scientific journals, recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, 7 — in editions indexed in Web of Science and Scopus databases, 50 — in editions indexed by RSCI, and also 4 monographs.
Since 2017, the department has been organising annual » Criminal Readings named after Khmyrov «. The participants of the conferences note the high level of their organisation and conduct, express their gratitude for the open and discussion character of the reports. The results of the work are published collections of conference materials, including the theses of the participants of the scientific event.
The staff of the Department maintains close creative ties with many law schools and research institutes in Russia and the CIS countries, and often acts as a leading organisation in the evaluation of doctoral theses.

The main areas of research activity of the Department are: research of problems of formation and development of the state and law (including legal regulation of relations in Cossack troops), legal pluralism, legal conflictology, problems of interaction between law and society (including issues of effectiveness of law and social jurisprudence).
From 2017 to 2022 the academics of the Department have published: 7 monographs, 21 publications indexed in scientific citation databases Scopus and Web of Science, 82 publications in journals recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Higher Education and Science of the Russian Federation.
In order to implement the directions of scientific activity the Department annually holds an international conference «Life of Law: Legal Theory, Legal Tradition and Legal Reality», after the results of which a collection of articles of the conference participants is published. In 2021-2022 the conference was organised and held jointly with the Institute of State and Law of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.
The master’s programme «Lawyer-analyst, lawyer-conflictologist» was established at the Department, which also provides training for postgraduate students.
The employees of the department take part in all-Russian and international conferences and other events, prepare publications reflecting the results of scientific research.

The general theme of the Department’s research activities is «Actual problems of justice, law enforcement, human rights, criminal procedure and national security».
In 2019-2022 the Department of Criminal Procedure held 4 international and 2 all-Russian conferences, the results of which were published in thematic proceedings.
In 2019-2022, 6 monographs were published; 5 scientific articles in journals indexed in SCOPUS and WOS, and 72 articles — in journals recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Higher Education and Science of the Russian Federation.
Scientific cooperation is developing with foreign scientists from Belarus, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Serbia and other countries.
The professors of the Department are members of the thesis councils of Kuban State University:
Doctor of Law, Professor О. Gladysheva:
— 24.2.320.07: 5.1.4 — Criminal Law (Legal Sciences);
Doctor of Law, Professor R. Kostenko:
24.2.320.07: 5.1.4 — Criminal Law (Legal Sciences);
Doctor of Law, Professor V. Sementsov:
— 24.2.320.06: 5.1.2. — Public Law (Legal Sciences);
— 24.2.320.07: 5.1.4 — Criminal law (Legal sciences).

Head — Doctor of Law, Professor, Honoured Lawyer of Kuban Vladimir Sementsov.

Contacts: e-mail: crimpro@yandex.ru

Since 2021 by results of researches 4 monographs were published (including: Sementsov V.A. Using the Results of Operative-Investigative Activity in Pre-trial Proceedings: Monograph. Moscow: Yur-litinform, 2021; Sementsov V.A., Gladysheva O.V., Lukozhev H.M., Adygezalova G.E. Bodies of preliminary investigation of Russia and procedural independence of an investigator: monograph. M.: Jurlitinform, 2021, etc.); scientific articles in journals recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Higher Education and Science (50), in journals indexed in SCOPUS and WOS.

Organized and conducted 2 international and 2 all-Russian scientific-practical conferences, prepared thematic collections.

Scientific research of problematic issues in pre-trial criminal proceedings are conducted, including research and development and research and development.

The Department of Criminal Procedure has 13 full-time and correspondence postgraduate students. Five candidates for the degree of Candidate of Juridical Sciences and one candidate for the degree of Doctor of Juridical Sciences also conduct their research at the Department.

Head of the Scientific School — Head of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Doctor of Law, Professor, Honorary Jurist of the Russian Federation V. Konyakhin.

Contact: e-mail: kup_kubgu@mail.ru

Main fields of research:

• Theoretical Foundations of the Construction of the Criminal Law of the Russian Federation» (Prof. V.
Konyakhin);
• The Institute of Sentencing: Legislative and executive aspects» (Professor L. Prokhorov);
• Institute of Criminal Liability for Crimes Against Public Security (Professor M. Prokhorova).

Within the framework of the scientific school 3 doctoral theses and 20 postgraduate theses were successfully defended, including 1 thesis by a representative of a foreign state.

In 2021 the project «Organisational and legal mechanism of extremism prevention in youth environment: perspective models and specificity of their realisation on the territory of Krasnodar region» was developed. It was financed by the Kuban scientific fund in the amount of 700 000 roubles.