The third Baikal Legal Forum started its work today at Baikal State University. It is dedicated to the thirtieth anniversary of legal education at BSU. More than 350 legal practitioners and theorists from 26 regions of the Russian Federation, including scientists from Mongolia, Tajikistan, Belarus will take part in the forum.
Rector of Baikal State University, Professor, Honored Lawyer of the Russian
Federation Victor Ignatenko addressed the participants and guests of the forum
with a welcoming speech. He emphasized that for the past thirty years the
university has become a forge of legal personnel not only for Siberia and the
Far East, but also for neighboring Mongolia. The university has graduated more
than 15 thousand highly qualified specialists. The establishment of the Faculty
of Law in 1993 on the basis of the Irkutsk State Academy of Economics was the
dictates of the time. Due to changes in the socio-political situation, the
region was experiencing a shortage of legal personnel. The first dean of the
Faculty of Law at IEA was a prominent scientist, Doctor of Law, Professor, now
deceased Valery Semeusov. Such scientists as Grigory Gaverov, Vladimir Shikanov,
Viola Rybalskaya, Sergey Bosholov, Iraida Smolkova were among the founders of
the law school at Baikal State University.
Victor Ignatenko focused on the main milestones in the development of legal
education at Baikal State University. Currently, the training is conducted in
two independent institutes: the Institute of Justice and the Institute of State
Law and National Security.
In the nearest plans of the university - opening of the Forensic Expertise.
The opening of dissertation councils on legal sciences has played a great role
in the training of legal personnel. 160 candidate dissertations and three
doctoral theses have been defended on the basis of these councils. Another 70
candidates and 16 doctors of science from the university defended their theses
in other universities. By 2024-2025, there are plans to open another
dissertation council for legal sciences.