Legal Support of Business
In English and Russian
Level of education Master
Type of instruction Full-time
Duration 2 years
Programme description
- The master’s programme "Legal Assistance for Business" provides an opportunity to acquire professional competencies for comprehensive legal support in commercial and non-commercial activities. The programme is unique in that it provides for individual educational trajectories. In particular, students can master skills in the field of: resolving economic disputes between entrepreneurs and protecting business rights and interests in public law disputes; ensuring the interaction of commercial organisations and entrepreneurs with the authorities; and legal support for working with the staff of organisations to name just a few. The applied nature of the programme is realised in the main forms of training sessions: interactive and practical classes, during which legal cases are studied and conflicts of law enforcement problems are discussed
- The programme is aimed at preparing experts who will be competitive in Russian and international labour markets and have all the necessary skills and competences for the professional activity of a lawyer, who provides qualified support for legally significant actions, counselling, representation of interests of persons in legal disputes. The programme development strategy aims to meet the demands of the labour market for lawyers who are competent to provide legal support for businesses and consultancy services in both the private and public law fields
Main courses
- Business Protection in Control and Supervisory Activities
- Commercial Procedure
- Company Law
- Competition Law
- Mechanism of Corporate Labour Management
- Aspects of Criminal Procedure and Criminal Investigation of Business Security and Protection
- Property Rights Protection in the European Court of Human Rights
- Cartels and Other Anticompetitive Agreements
- Labour Dispute Resolution
- Development of Competition and Stages of Antimonopoly Legislation Formation
- International Trade Law
- Contractual Grounds for Natural Resource Rights
- Regulation of International Trade in Services Within the World Trade Organization and the Eurasian Economic Union
- Contracts in Turnover of Immovable Property
- Business and Human Rights
- Legal Regulation of the Tendering Procedures
- Constitutional Economics
- Enforcement Proceedings
- Legal Support for the Activities of Private Healthcare Providers
Our advantages
- The programme provides an opportunity to acquire professional competencies for comprehensive legal support in commercial and non-commercial activities
- The programme provides for individual educational trajectories
- Best practices of the world’s leading master’s programmes in legal support of business are used
- There are agreements with field-specific partner organisations where students can do internships
Graduates are capable of:
- Defining and reasoning their own position when solving job tasks using legally significant information
- Accepting and assessing legally significant decisions, and supporting them in business projects
- Performing legal due diligence of by-laws and acts of law enforcement in the field of commercial and non-commercial activities
- Applying the rules of legal techniques and legal vocabulary to prepare by-laws and other legal documents
- Applying various techniques and methods of interpreting legal norms to analyse and clarify their meaning and content; and
- Setting and solving job tasks, taking into account the requirements of information security
Main areas of research
- Defending the rights and interests of businesses in public law disputes
- Ensuring interaction of business organisations and entrepreneurs with government agencies
- Resolving economic disputes
- Conditions for commercial and non-commercial activities
- Differentiation of the legal status of business entities and the property basis for their activities
- Legal means to ensure protection of competition
- State control over entrepreneurial activities
- Implementation mechanisms of insolvency (bankruptcy) procedures
- General characteristics of the securities and collective investment market
- Legal criteria for personnel selection and evaluation
- Individual agreement-based regulation of labour relations in corporations
- Organisation of claims work in commercial and non-commercial activities
- Monetary obligations in entrepreneurial activities
- Business contracts and organisation of corporate contract work
- Legal regulation of foreign economic activities
- Procedural forms for protection of rights in the business sphere
- Legal regulation of investment activities
- Organising business advocacy in Russia and foreign countries
- Legal regulation of innovative entrepreneurship
International relations
Master’s students have an opportunity to take advantage of St Petersburg University’s extensive international links.
Career opportunities
Professions
Graduates can work at:
- profit and non-profit organisations
- consulting companies
- lawyers’ associations and partnerships
- federal and state governments
- judicial authorities, arbitration tribunals
- authorities exercising control and supervisory activities, including the prosecutor’s office
Accreditation
The programme has been internationally accredited by the Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation (FIBAA) as part of the institutional accreditation of the Faculty of Law, the Certificate dated 26 February 2021.