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  • ‘Public Law (State Law) Science’

    • Full-time
    • 3 years

About the program

At the Faculty of Law, training in the scientific program “Public Law (State Law) Science” is carried out according to the concentration “Financial Law”. Financial law is the foundation of the state’s economy. The legal regulation of relations in this area as well as scientifically based approaches to solving the problems of the science of financial law, guarantees the stability of the economy. When implementing the educational program, appropriate learning technologies are provided for each academic discipline, which allow achieving the planned learning outcomes. Interactive learning allows one to monitor continuously the learning progress throughout the whole period of study.

Program managers

Ruchkina Gulnara Flyurovna

  • Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation
  • Dean of the Faculty of Law, Professor of the Department of Legal Regulation of Economic Activity
  • Since 2008, she has been an expert in assessing the quality of education. Prof. Ruchkina is a member of: the Expert Council of the Moscow City Duma Commission on Legislation; the Expert Council under the Federal Tax Service of Russia on improving the practice of applying insolvency (bankruptcy); Association of Lawyers of Russia; Scientific Advisory Council at the Arbitration Court of the Moscow region. 
  • Prof. Ruchkina is a member of the Editorial Boards of the following journals: “Business Law", “Economics. Taxes. Law", “Financial Law", “Bulletin of the Financial University", “Modern Lawyer", “Taxes", “Property Relations in the Russian Federation", “Finance: Theory and Practice", and the Editor-in-Chief and Chairman of the Editorial Board of the journal “Banking Law".

Key disciplines of the concentration

Public Law (State Law) Science

Within the framework of this discipline students study key theoretical approaches, concepts and scientific schools in the field of financial law.

History and Philosophy of Science

PhD students study the problems of philosophical understanding of science as a whole and the specifics of the problems of individual branches of scientific knowledge.

Theory and Methodology of Teaching

The discipline “Theory and Methodology of Teaching” is a mandatory discipline for all areas of training of scientific and pedagogical personnel in postgraduate studies in the curricula of the Financial University. Its main goal is to enlighten postgraduate students on theoretical issues of psychology and pedagogy of higher education, on teaching methods at the university level, the use of various forms and methods of teaching, control and organization of independent work of students.

Advantages of the program

The established scientific school “State Regulation of Economic Activity”, whose members have extensive experience in conducting private law research, teaching and training high-quality scientific and pedagogical personnel.

A wide variety of topics of dissertation research within the framework of private law concentration.

The Dissertation Council operating at the Financial University.

Large methodological, informational, and infrastructural base for conducting scientific research, teaching, project, and expert activities.

Involvement of postgraduate students in conducting scientific research commissioned by government authorities and business structures.

Why it is better to do a PhD degree with us

  • One of the best universities in Russia with a 100-year history;
  • High professional level of the faculty;
  • The possibility of conducting scientific research at the University;
  • Availability of dissertation councils (not in all specialties);
  • The possibility of studying abroad;
  • The possibility of studying at the postgraduate school of candidates pool.