The Law Institute of Irkutsk State University is one of the oldest law schools of Russia, the leader of legal education in Eastern Siberia.

Law Institute of ISU is included in the "Top 25" of law schools of Russia by the results of the “National Rating of Russian Universities”.

Law Institute of ISU today:

♦ professors and lecturers, authors of educational and methodical manuals, founders of scientific legal schools, successful practitioners: judges, attorneys, lawyers of commercial companies and human rights organizations;  

♦ Bachelor and Master's degree programmes; courses of improvement of qualification; additional educational services;

♦ 7 departments;

♦ more than 3,000 students from the cities and districts of Irkutsk region, Republic of Buryatia, Mongolia, Vietnam, Poland, China;

♦ more than 30 advanced students and applicants for PhD;

♦ modern educational technologies and techniques: business games and trainings, case-study, brain-rings, meetings with practitioners, performance of trials, practical trainings in criminology and forensic expertology;

♦ quality of material and technical equipment, auditoriums for interactive leaning  – the Courtroom and Auditorium of Roman Law, museum of criminalistics and forensic testing ground, free access Internet classrooms, students cafe with two halls, conference and sport halls, access control system;

♦ the largest fund of specialized literature on the territory from Urals to the Far East, automated circulation, full maintenance of students with the educational literature;

♦ own scientific-law journal “Siberian Law Herald”;

♦ scientific and educational international programs and projects: academic exchanges of students and professors with foreign partner universities, annual international summer law schools and academies etc.;

♦ opportunity to gain practical experience in consultation of people on various legal questions in the Law Clinic of Law Institute ISU;

♦ reach cultural life: Club of aesthetic values, youth choir «GAUDEAMUS», the student theater studio «Cylinder», an art-gallery, the Club of cheerful and ready, more than 60 cultural events for an academic year;

♦ modern sport complex: sport and weight rooms, court for tennis, stadium, basketball and volleyball grounds, ski base, ice rink, various sport sections.