Saratov State Academy of Law

Saratov State Academy of Law (SSLA) is one of the largest legal scientific and educational institutions of Russia. SSLA was founded in 1931. Now It has 16 educational buildings, the largest scientific and legal library of the Volga region, postgraduate, doctoral studies, 4 active dissertation councils.

Instruction is conducted in 9 institutes (the Institute of the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, the Institute of Justice, the Institute of Law Enforcement, the Institute of Lawmaking, the Institute of Magistracy, The institute of the Second Higher and Extramural Education, the Institute for Second Vocational Education, the Interregional Law Institute, the Law Institute of Legal Administration.

The Academy has branches in Astrakhan, Balakovo (Saratov region) and Smolensk.

Second Higher and Extramural Education programs are realized in the College of Economics, Law, and Service. Saratov Interregional Center for Prosecutors and Federal State Civil Servants Vocational Training is operating on the basis of an agreement with the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. Every year 380 specialists are trained here.

The results of the activity of the Saratov State Law Academy in social innovations: the development of the Concept of Legal Policy in the Russian Federation, the Executive Code project, the draft federal law "On Physical Culture and Sport in the Russian Federation”, comments on laws "Concerning Enforcement Proceedings", “On providing the access to the public relations of central and local authorities” and “On providing the access to the public relations of courts in the Russian Federation” and many other draft laws and regulations, including those for constituent territories of the Russian Federation.

The Academy takes an active part in competitions for scientific research of various levels.

Every year about 20 doctorate and Ph.D. theses are maintained in 3 dissertation counsels.

The Academy issues scientific journals such as "Bulletin of Saratov State Law Academy", "Legal Policy and Legal Life" (included in the list of the Higher Attestation Commission), “Person and Law – XXI century”, “Law. Legislation. Personality ", a collection of scientific works "Questions of the theory of state and law", student newspapers “Lawyer” and “Scientific Student Review”.

International activity of the Academy is carried out on the basis of 24 agreements for the development of scientific and educational connection with foreign universities (Great Britain, Germany, Republic of Kazakhstan, China, Lithuania, France, the USA, Ukraine).

Many of the faculty members of SSLA are the members of different international scientific associations and communities such as the International Law Association, the Administrative Law International Association, the French Association of Financial Law, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center and others.

The Academy realizes the concept of the unity of student professional education. It successfully develops a network of creative student clubs and studios and sports sections. It has a developed system of pre-university and special pupil training; It cooperates with more than 200 specialized and vocational schools in Saratov and the Saratov region as well.

Academy integration into the world educational and scientific space presupposes the intensification of educational and scientific connections, including bilateral treaties, which have been already signed with many foreign organizations.

Among them:

- Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University (Kharkiv, Ukraine);

- Makhambet Utemisov West Kazakhstan State University (Uralsk, Kazakhstan);

- KAZGUU University (Astana, Kazakhstan);

- Belarussian State University (Minsk, the Republic of Belarus);

- Noravank Scientific Educational Foundation (Egevan, the Republic of Armenia);

- Tajik National University (Dushanbe, Tadjikistan);

- Kyrgyz National University (Bishkek, Kirghizia);

- Center of international programs of the Ministry of Education and Science of Tadjikistan (Dushanbe, Tadjikistan);

- Vilnius University (Vilnius, Lithuania);

- Institute for Legal Policy of the University of Trier (Trier, Germany);

- Institute of East European Law of the University of Cologne (Cologne, Germany);

- Institute of East European Law of Kiel University (Kiel, Germany);

- The University of Bialystok (Bialystok, Poland);

- Palacký University Olomouc (Olomouc, Czech Republic);

- Faculty of Law of Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic);

- CEU Cardenal Herrera University (Valencia, Spain);

- Law school association of the Russian-German Law Institute (Moscow, the Russian Federation)

- The University of Kansas (Lawrence, the USA);

- Sister cities committee Saratov-Dallas (Dallas, the USA);

- François Rabelais University (Tours, France);

- Criminal Police University of the Ministry of Public Security (Shenyang, China)

- National law school of Indian University (Bangalore, India).