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LAW IN PUBLIC POLICY

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ЮРИСПРУДЕНЦИЯ

Master's

Full–time

Russian

>TUITION FEE

₽ 277 000

$ 4100 / € 3730

ABOUT THE PROFESSION

Master’s program “Law in Public Policy” trains lawyers — specialists in assessing political risks, GR-consultants, legal analysts in the field of political interaction, and lawyers-organizers of election campaigns. Graduates of the program acquire competitive skills of doing political and legal analysis of social situations, designing the work of interdisciplinary management teams, as well as planning and implementing programs for transforming the organization’s activities in changing political circumstances.

BENEFITS OF THE PROGRAM

The program is headed by acting public law specialists

A.A. Klishas
Professor, Dr.Sc. in Laws, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Senator of the Russian Federation from the executive body of state power of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building, co-chairman of the Working Group on the preparation of Proposals for amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation
V.M. Platonov
Professor, PhD in Laws, from 1996 to 2001 — member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, from 1998 to 2001 — Deputy Chairman of the RF Federation Council, from 1993 to 2014 — Deputy of the Moscow City Duma, from 1994 to 2014 — Chairman of the Moscow City Duma, developer of a number of fundamental federal laws and regulatory legal acts of Moscow; currently — President of the Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Teachers — practicing experts

D.G. Evstafiev
Professor, PhD in Political Sciences, Russian political scientist, expert in American studies, specialist in Russian national security military and political issues, and military and foreign policy of the United States and regional problems of nuclear nonproliferation
E.V. Semibratov
PhD in Historical Sciences, Deputy Director of RUDN Institute for Strategic Studies and Forecasts, ambassador and lecturer of the Russian Society “Znaniye”, nominee “Znaniye. Award 2024”, co-host of the “Metametrica LIVE” project
D.K. Chugunov
PhD in Laws, Deputy Managing Director for GR, HEADHUNTER LLC, Advisor to the Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, expert of the All-Russian public movement “NATIONAL FRONT “FOR RUSSIA”
M.I. Katsarsky
PhD in Laws, 8 years of work experience in public authorities, worked as Deputy Chief of the Executive Office of the Federation Council Committee and currently is Vice-Rector for work with students of RUDN University named after Patrice Lumumba
S.B. Zinkovsky
Associate professor, PhD in Laws, Director of Patrice Lumumba RUDN Institute of Law, has 22 years of experience in law practice, member of the Moscow Bar Association, member of the Association of Legal Education Board.

The program focuses on teaching applied skills

The program focuses on teaching applied skills in various fields of social sciences: social groups segmentation and target audience selection, foresight technologies, project work and scripting.

Internships in government agencies of the Russian Federation

  • The Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
  • The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
  • Moscow City Duma
  • Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation
  • Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • Arbitration Court of Moscow
  • Structural divisions of the Moscow Government

STUDY PROCESS

120 ECTS

  • First year of study

  • Second year of study

  • Internships

  • State final exams

DISCIPLINES

Legal forms of political interaction, 2 ECTS

The main purpose of the course is to form students’ in-depth understanding of the interaction of law and politics, the role of law and legal means in regulating the interaction of subjects of the political system institutional component. Students master the basics of political communication theory and form an in-depth understanding of the PR phenomenon in political communication.

Information and political manipulation and social myth-making: legal qualifications, theory and cases, 4 ECTS

Studying theoretical and methodological foundations of the study of fakes, manipulative technologies in politics and legal regulation, the role and functions of myths in legal and political consciousness, legal qualification of information and political manipulation and the influence of myth-making and information and political manipulation on legal and political culture.

Political and legal analysis in law-making and law enforcement practice: theory and cases, 5 ECTS

The main purpose of the course is to develop students’ practical analytical skills in assessing legally significant situations and elaborating methods for solving political and legal problems.

Introduction to the theory of argumentation in law, 6 ECTS

Systematizing knowledge of the essence and methods of legal argumentation: in-depth study of the basics of logic and the theory of argumentation, in particular, the study by students of methods and techniques of argumentation in legally significant situations, in law-making and law enforcement activities, building students’ skills in analyzing legal texts, and mastering various methods of presenting legal positions.

DISCIPLINES

Political PR technologies and legal forms of political consulting, 7 ECTS

    Developing students’ scientific, theoretical and practical knowledge of the basics of political consulting and basic PR tools used in political processes.

Comparative studies of legal cultures and applied sociology of law, 7 ECTS

    A new scientific field integrated into the educational process. The course is aimed at studying legal phenomena in close relationship with social practice, and more broadly with the characteristics of the culture of the respective societies. Studying the course allows you to understand why seemingly similar legal phenomena in different cultural and historical conditions reflect different contents, as well as to assess the limits of intercultural interaction in law.

PRACTICAL TRAINING AND INTERNSHIPS

Practical training in the study process

The scientific foresight seminar “Law as a tool of public policy” is project work with a series of master classes from leading practitioners, where students actively participate in discussions and develop projects on various topics of the program.

Master students learn to:

  • create strategies for election and lobbying campaigns;
  • use methods of positioning and promoting a person or idea in the political and legal sphere;
  • work with the risks associated with the implementation of political and legal initiatives;
  • evaluate legislation and law enforcement practice;
  • implement various methods of political and legal analysis in decision-making.

Internships venues

Pre-graduation practice

The main form of practice is research activity, for the students to consolidate and deepen theoretical knowledge, master methods of conducting research in the field of law, publishing scientific articles and master’s theses, which are defended in Russian and foreign languages.

The main venue of pre-graduation practice is the Patrice Lumumba RUDN University and the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Internships in commercial or government non-educational organizations

Master students undergo practical training and internships in public authorities of the Russian Federation and other organizations related to the field of public policy, in particular in the Federation Council and the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the Moscow City Duma, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation and the Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry (in terms of economic politics issues, and interaction of private business and government), in the Arbitration Court of Moscow; in the law offices “Koblev & Partners” and “Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev & Partners” (in terms of GR and representing the interests of the principals in relations with the authorities), as well as in structural divisions of the Government of Moscow.

Research

Students of the Law in Public Policy program are engaged in research activities, gaining experience in teaching legal disciplines.

Research work is carried out in the following forms:

  • development of draft laws on various topics of the program;
  • participation in scientific research of the department;
  • preparation of reports and presentations at scientific conferences, seminars, symposiums, participation in round tables and other scientific events;
  • publication of abstracts, scientific articles in the journals of the Higher Attestation Commission and RSCI, as well as indexed in the international databases, including Scopus and WoS;
  • participation in research projects at the university;
  • bibliographic work using modern information and communication technologies.

BEST GRADUATION THESES

Rezeda Akhmedzhanova

The purpose of the work is to draw up a detailed map of promising changes in the electoral legislation of Russia for the medium term.

Georgy Butyugov

The purpose of the work is to offer political processes participants ready—made algorithms for evaluating standard political and legal situations based on the SWOT analysis methodology.

Maria Sayfullina

The purpose of the work is to demonstrate the features and limits of intercultural interaction in the process of reception of political and legal models of Western societies in typologically different socio-cultural conditions.

Nazar Semyonovich

The purpose of the work is to propose a system of measures aimed at the digital transformation of political and legal decision—making processes reflecting the principle of public authority unity.

Luisa Montilla

The purpose of the work is to evaluate and systematize manipulative technologies of using the media to adjust the political landscape in the Russian Federation.

Sergey Malinin

The purpose of the work is to form proposals for adjusting the public authorities policy on positioning on the Internet.

Lyubov Kolpakova

The purpose of the work is to assess the possibilities and limits of the impact of legal means on the configuration of society and social goal—setting.

Anastasia Gulyagina

The purpose of the work is to systematize the approaches of judicial authorities in interpreting political and legal phenomena through the prism of moral categories for practical use by lawyers in drafting legal positions on specific disputes.

Yulia Rasсhibina

The purpose of the work is to identify the system—forming principles and institutions enshrined in the Russian Constitution and ensuring integration and common vectors of political processes in Russia.

CAREER AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Further employment in:

The Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
The Central Election Commission
Moscow City Duma
The Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of sciences
Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation
Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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