The Ural State Law University was founded in September of 1918 as the Faculty of Law of the Irkutsk State University. By the August of 1934, the University was transferred from Irkutsk to Sverdlovsk and renamed the Sverdlovsk Law Institute. During that time, the Institute consisted only of three chairs: the Chair of Socio-Economic and Political Studies, the Chair of Soviet Economic Law, and the Chair of Criminal Law and Procedure. Afterward, new chairs were established, and those that had already existed were enlarged. Besides, the number of students was gradually growing.
The Ural State Law University (its abbreviated form being USLU) is one of Russia's most prestigious higher educational institutions. It is a nationally recognized leader in legal education: it trains highly qualified specialists for government agencies, organs of justice, Prosecution Office, Tax Inspection, law enforcement agencies, local authorities, and other state and private organizations.
On its 50th anniversary, the Sverdlovsk Law Institute became the most important scientific and educational center in Russia. With the development of the Sverdlovsk Law Institute, many prominent scientists worked there. They formed the Ural scientific law school and trained highly qualified specialists. Graduates made a significant contribution to the development of the state and legal system, the judiciary, the Bar, the notary, and banking.
The University is a unique institution for Yekaterinburg, a city with about 1.5 million people but the whole country. USLU maintains and develops relationships with several leading universities in Europe, the USA, and the CIS. Moreover, USLU conducts a lot of international arrangements and events. A lot of legal scholars, representatives of state bodies, and lawyers are participants in such events.
A new reform came in April of 2014: "the Ural State Law Academy" was renamed the Federal State Budget Institution of Higher Education "Ural State Law University" (USLU). Nowadays, USLU continues to be one of the most important scientific and educational centers of law in Russia, unifying traditional legal education traditions with modern educational technologies.
