DOI: 10.7256/1729-5920.2013.8.62902

Аннотация: The article is devoted to the Far Eastern Federal University — its history, experience, and the further plans for the innovative activities. The history of legal education in the Far East of Russia starts in 1899, when the Oriental Institute (now the FEFU) was formed in Vladivostok. It was the first university to the east of Baikal. Its curriculum included legal courses. After the Far Eastern State University was restored in 1956, the Ministry of Higher Education of the USSR in September of 1958 had decided to include jurisprudence into the curriculum and to open the major on «legal studies» as a part of a historical and philological faculty. In 1959 the historical and legal faculty of the FESU was formed, and the department of legal studies was formed as well. This department (and later the historical and legal faculty as a whole) was headed by the N.I. Ovchinnikov (PhD in Law). The reform of the legal education in FESU in 1980 was a unique event within the Soviet era, and it as based upon a constellation of bright lawyers and legal scholars. The scientific research within the law school also entered a new era at about the same time. The scientific school of criminal law of the Law School of the FESU was recognized both nationally and internationally. In July 1992 on the initiative of the rector of the FESU an international scientific conference on comparative studies of the legal systems of Russia an the South Korea was held in Vladivostok based on the Law School of the FESU. Soon after the FEFU was formed based on the FESU in October, 2010, other higher education institutions were merged with it in 2011, and the academic divisions of the University were restructure, the system of faculties and institutes was liquidated. Instead of them 9 large «competence centers» were formed on the most globally competitive scientific and educational spheres, and 9 schools were formed based on these centers. The Law Institute of the FEFU was reformed into the Law School of the FEFU.