Programme Overview
‘Legal Support of Entrepreneurial Activity’ is a practice-oriented programme, with a primary focus on cross-disciplinary economic and legal competencies, which are necessary for analysis and other activities in the provision of legal support and business protection consulting.
A special emphasis is placed on analysis, identification and optimal economic and legal elimination of threats and criminal risks, which are potentially associated with administrative and managerial, tax, administrative-procedural and other regulatory and legal issues.
The Master's programme also offers comprehensive economic and legal analysis of practical problems, as well as helps students identify approaches and methods for rectifying such issues. In this respect, they are engaged complex theoretical and empirical research in order to find solutions to target tasks related to certain business activities.
This approach teaches students practical concepts in regards to how business processes actually function, along with project development skills and the ability to draw up legal documents. Furthermore, they can obtain legal expertise, learn how to write public stations, prepare legal conclusions, carry out negotiations, and formulate accurate positions in regards to various legal issues.
Programme Benefits
This programme is based on a logical and harmonious combination of legal, financial, economic and managerial disciplines.
Furthermore, it features courses on professional disciplines in English. In this respect, effective language training ensures personal capitalization and allows graduates to be competitive on the job market, while also offering great opportunities for self-realization in one’s career development.
Individual trajectories and a varied list of disciplines help students to find their own paths of development.
Online video lectures and conferences featuring top speakers from Moscow, St. Petersburg, and other Russian urban centres are a prominent feature of the programme.
In addition, students get to study directly under experienced mentors (e.g., solicitors, receivers, corporate lawyers, etc.), as well as participate in a larger intellectual community. In fact, a large range of partner agreements can offer them real opportunities for professional growth and practical study.
Programme Curriculum
First Year
Cycle of General Disciplines:
- Modern Problems of Entrepreneurial (business) Law.
Cycle of Programme Disciplines:
- Legal Positions of Supreme Courts on Economic Disputes;
- Various Types of State Regulation of Business Activities;
- Problems of Corporate Law and Legal Policy;
- Bankruptcy of Economic Entities;
- Economic Crime;
- Banking Law.
On-line disciplines from the recommended list
Optional Disciplines:
- Modern Government Economic Policy;
- Legal Regulation of Public Purchasing and Procurements;
- International Labour Law (in English);
- Legal Solutions for Transaction Structuring.
Practice and Research:
- Research seminar – ‘Information Technologies and Intellectual Property Rights’;
- Student teaching practice;
- Term paper (coursework).
Second Year
Cycle of General Disciplines:
- Comparative Jurisprudence (Law) (in English).
Cycle of Programme Disciplines:
- Contract Law.
On-line disciplines from the recommended list
Optional Disciplines:
- Administrative Procedures;
- Corporate Tax Liabilities and Tax Planning Technologies.
Practice and Research Work:
- Research seminar - ‘Information Technologies and Intellectual Property Rights’;
- Practical training;
- Final qualification work (master's thesis) - upon completion of their instruction, Master’s students must write a final state exam and defend their final qualification research (Master's thesis).
Career Opportunities
The programme’s graduate are highly qualified specialists who usually pursue careers in the following areas: judiciary, public state and municipal administration, forensics, alternative dispute resolution, business troubleshooting, compliance, commercial arbitration, international courts, legal and administrative consulting, economic security, higher and postgraduate professional education, as well as working as lawyers, advocates, prosecutors, notaries, in-house lawyers, etc.