New Challenges - New Horizons

Review. The article deals with the influence of changes taking place in the modern world order on state institutions and law. Relevant trends inevitably determine the development of the content and character of higher legal education in specific countries at the regional, continental and global levels. These tendencies are described from the perspective of establishing and developing higher legal education in the Tyumen Region - namely, in the Tyumen oblast that has celebrated its 30th anniversary, Khanty-Mansi and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Areas. The paper explains origins and reasons of establishing in 1985 the Law Department and then the Law Faculty at the Tyumen State University when at a certain stage one of the fastest growing parts of the territory of the country faced with the shortage of legal personnel. The Faculty gave a new look to the University and the region and played a significant role in their lives. A lot of Law Faculty graduates have achieved considerable success, work in federal and regional authorities and local self-government bodies, in large and medium sized businesses. The author focuses on describing the State and Law Institute that was formed in 1999 when the former Faculty of Law and the independent Faculty of Political Sciences established in the mid 90's were united. The paper is showing its initial and modern structure, the composition of the scientific and pedagogical staff, training areas and specialty, master's programs, two of which are double degree programs implemented in cooperation with foreign universities, scientific, expert and grant activities, the Dissertation Council work, international contacts and cooperation, academic legal journals published in English and aimed at overseas audiences, participation in international professional associations, achievements and accomplishments of students. Considerable attention is paid to a new stage and new tasks of the Institute in connection with the University being accepted on a competitive basis to the Group of 21 universities within the framework of the special program "5-100" implemented by the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia on the basis of the Presidential Decree. At the beginning of a new phase and new search for opportunities, the Institute percepts its main task as maintaining major basic trends in the development of higher legal education.

law, state, higher legal education, Tyumen State University, Faculty of Law, Institute of the State and law, international cooperation, dual degree graduate programs, academic law journals, international professional associations