Date of foundation: 2003.

Head of Department – Oleg Aleksandrovich Yastrebov, Doctor of Law, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Director of the RUDN University Institute of Law, President of the Association of Legal Education of Russia, Vice-President of the State Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles in Law of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

The Department trains specialists in public and financial management. The Department teaches legal support of the interaction between entrepreneurial entities and public and municipal authorities.

The scientific interests of the department include methods and mechanisms of administrative and financial law, legal processes in entrepreneurial activities. Special focus is laid on banking, insurance and other financial spheres of application of legal knowledge.

In addition to the traditional range of scientific matters the Department deals with modern directions: financial monitoring, public administration of innovative activities, administrative and legal regulation of anti-monopoly activities, protection of competition.

The Department cooperates with state organizations and higher education institutions: Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation, Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, State Duma, Kutafin Moscow State Law University, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Saint-Petersburg State University.

Date of foundation: 1960. 

Head of Department – Evgeniya Evgenievna Frolova, Doctor of Law, Professor, Honoured Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Honorary Worker of Higher Vocational Education of the Russian Federation.

The scientific activities of the Department embrace a wide range of directions. The research is being conducted in the following areas: civil law, trade law, corporate law of the Russian Federation, M&A deals, labour law, civil procedure, arbitration procedure, commercial disputes, international private law, international commercial arbitration, international civil procedure.

Civil law, domestic relations law, business and housing law are taught in the Department. Special courses are developed for practical training. They are reviewed depending on the current demands of the society, students’ requests and based on the successful experience of other law higher education institutions. 

The Student Consulting Society operates at the Department. It is modelled on legal clinics of the USA. The bureau offers legal consultations for Russian Federation citizens free of charge. The pride of the department is scientific student LAM CLUB. The name encodes the areas of its work - Litigation, Arbitration, Mediation. Annually the department prepares a team of law students for the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, which takes place in Vienna (Austria).

Date of foundation: 2008.

Head of Department – Marina Anatolievna Vakula, PhD in Law, Assistant Professor. 

The Department does research in natural resource, nature protection and energy law. Its scientific and research work deals with a whole range of topical issues: legal regulation of land relations, analysis of Russian and foreign legislation, complex nature management and environmental protection, economic mechanism of ensuring rights for participants in ecological relations. Issues of judicial and non-judicial settlement of disputable legal cases in economic activity are under consideration.

During classes, students are taught theory and are introduced to the practical aspect of their profession. Students simulate assumed situations which arise during legal support of organizations, master techniques of making up legal documents and specificity of their application in a case. 

The Department cooperates successfully with organizations of specialization close to theirs, including Ministry of Nature Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Department of Housing, Utilities and Amenities of Moscow, Lomonosov Moscow State University, State University of Management, D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Research and Scientific Centre for Ecosafety of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The partners of the Department also include Russian Railways, Gazprom, Mosenergo, Moscow Bar Association, international consultancy Mott Macdonald (Great Britain), international consulting company HER-Advice (Netherlands), Russian and German project ‘Climatic Economic Activity: Introduction of Best Available Technologies in the Russian Federation’.
 

Date of foundation: 1982.

Head of Department – Anastasiya Anatolievna Atabekova, Doctor of Letters, Professor, Chairperson of the RUDN University Commission on Foreign Languages. Member of the European Legal Interpreters and Translators Association, member of the European Council Academic Board on Languages as the official representative of RUDN University, member of the Russian delegation in the Committee of the Parties to the Lanzarote Convention. 

The Department does extensive scientific research in legal translation, theory and practice of teaching a foreign language to law students using innovative information technologies.

The major goal of the Department is to train specialists with professional skills in a foreign language. Students can choose from German, Spanish, English, French, Italian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean. At the end of their training students obtain not only a bachelor’s degree in law but a diploma in translation in the field of professional communication in one or several foreign languages. 

The Department traditionally organizes summer language internships and term trainings in Austria, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, China, France, etc. Students are trained to participate in international competitions on conducting negotiations in English.

Annually the Department conducts an international conference ‘Professionally-oriented foreign language teaching and translation in a higher education institution’.
The partners of the department in educational and certification programmes include the Goethe-Institut, Instituto Cervantes, Cambridge ESOL (Great Britain), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (France), University of Salzburg (Austria), University of Alcalà (Spain), Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (South Korea), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), Xi’an Jiaotong University (China).

Date of foundation: 1960.

Head of Department – Aslan Huseinovich Abashidze, Doctor of Law, Professor, member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, member of the Expert Board in Law of the State Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, member of the Scientific and Advisory Board at the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, member of the Scientific and Advisory Board at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, member of the Expert Board of the Human Rights Commissioner in the Russian Federation, Chairperson of the International Law Commission of the UN Association of Russia, Honoured Lawyer of the Russian Federation.

The Department develops and teaches such rare courses in human rights as Human Rights Treaty Bodies, International Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Human Rights, Promotion and Protection of Rights of Vulnerable Groups in International Law, International and Legal Foundations of Protection of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples, Protection of Environmental Human Rights, International and Legal Regulation of Migration, International Business and Human Rights, etc. 

The academic staff of the department contains authors of manuals on international space law, international air law, international maritime law, diplomatic and consular law, peaceful settlement of international disputes, law of international organizations, European law.

A Resource Centre has been established at the Department. Students get access to the literature published in UN working languages there. The Department has a library on international space law named after Professor Gennadiy Zhukov, who is considered to be one of the founders of international space law.

The Department has around 20 cooperation agreements with various companies and organizations including large international organizations where students have an opportunity to complete short- and long-term internships - the United Nations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, International Committee of the Red Cross, UNESCO, UNICEF, INTERSPUTNIK, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, ROSCOSMOS Corporation, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
 

Date of foundation: 2014. 

Head of Department – Levan Teimurazovich Chikhladze, Doctor of Law, Professor.

The scientific and educational interests of the Department include problems of indigenous and small-numbered peoples, local and regional administration both in the Russian Federation and foreign countries, municipal law-making, municipal legal relations, work of local authorities and their responsibility, control and oversight over their activities. 

The department conducts such issue-related scientific seminars as Civil Initiative, Municipal Quarter, CIS Municipal and Legal Research where students take an active part, make speeches and participate in debates and discussions.
 

Date of foundation: 2004.

Head of Department – Vladimir Vasilievich Vorobiev, Doctor of Letters, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Holder of the Award of the President of the Russian Federation.

The main direction of the department’s activities is teaching Russian to international students. The experience accumulated at the department helps to prepare future lawyers for not only interpersonal communication in a foreign language but for educational, scientific, professional and socio-cultural activities. 

For over 35 years the Department has been teaching Russian to international cosmonauts under the following programmes - Intercosmos, Peace-Shattle, International Space Station (ISS) in the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Zvezdniy Gorodok (Star City). 
 

Date of foundation: 2011.

Head of Department – Valeriy Vasilievich Grebennikov, Doctor of Law, Honoured Lawyer of the Russian Federation, member of the Higher Qualifications Board of Judges of the Russian Federation. 

The Department conducts fundamental and applied scientific research in legitimacy, system of justice, protection of human and civil rights and freedoms, protection of public and state interests, administration in judiciary, other law-enforcement institutions. 

A professional scientific student community has been established at the department in order to involve students in scientific life. A scientific student study group devoted to legal advocacy and law-enforcement activities in Russia and foreign countries meets regularly. 

The department organizes international trainings under the exchange education programmes at Xi’an Jiaotong University (China), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), and under Erasmus + programmes in the EU countries.
 

Date of foundation: 2015.

Head of Department – Svetlana Arkadievna Smirnova, Doctor of Law, Professor, Honoured Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Director of the Russian Federal Centre for Forensic Examination of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.

The scientific interests of the Department include organizing and holding forensic examination, information and methodical support and administration of forensic expert activity. 

Master’s students supervised by the lecturers of the department participate in scientific research, preparation of scientific articles and monographs. 

The Department provides an opportunity for its master’s students to complete an internship in the Russian Federal Centre for Forensic Examination and other forensic expert institutions of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. 
 

Date of foundation: 1982.

Head of Department – Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Bukalerova, Doctor of Law, Professor.

The Department focuses on a wide range of issues of penal law and procedure, criminal science, forensic science and psychology. The academic staff of the Department are authors of manuals, commentaries to the legislation, monographs, study guides and scientific articles. 

The academic staff of the Department consists of 19 members: 10 Doctors of Law, 9 PhDs in Law. They include former employees of the Prosecutor’s Office, police, Investigation Committee, judges and working lawyers. International professors from Norway, Kazakhstan, France, USA come to the Department to deliver lectures.

The Department actively involves students in its scientific and research activities: promotes their participation in grants, organizes internships and trainings in the Investigation Committee of the Russian Federation, Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation, in courts. The Department has established an educational and scientific classroom of criminal science and polygraph examination.