Legal Support of Entrepreneurial Activity

The structure of the curriculum allows students to tailor their educational trajectories with a combination of compulsory and elective courses.

Compulsory courses:

• Legal Tech and Intelligent Systems in Law
• Bankruptcy of Economic Entities
• Contract Law
• Corporate Law
• Information Technologies for Investigating Economic Crimes
• Internet Law and Intellectual Property Protection
• Research Methodology and Methods in Law
• Legal Positions of Supreme Courts on Economic and Legal Disputes
• Modern Problems in Business Law and more

Elective courses:

• Contract Law: from Trust to Promise to Contract
• European Business Law
• Tax Law and more

An interdisciplinary and practice-oriented approach

The programme offers training in fundamental legal disciplines with an additional information and legal component. Our students graduate with universal and highly specialized competencies and the required skills to apply new technologies in their professional activities.

The teaching is practice-oriented and includes input from practicing lawyers. Students will acquire general and specialised competencies necessary for legal work and gain experience working with the programme’s partner companies.

There is a particular focus on developing practical skills for performing procedural actions, analysing cases of non-standard applications of the law, developing various kinds of solutions, and drawing up expert opinions.

English-taught courses

The Master's programme includes English-taught courses. Profession-oriented language training ensures that graduates remain competitive in the Russian and international labour markets and have greater opportunities for professional fulfilment.

A degree from a leading Russian university

Graduates of all HSE campuses receive the same HSE diploma. Master’s students also receive a European Diploma Supplement containing information about their education, their final grades on a 10-point scale, and a conversion of their final grades to the European ECTS grading system. The document is provided in both English and Russian and allows students to continue their education or work in Bologna Process member countries (48 countries) without a legal translation of their diploma.

Academic mobility

Students from Perm have the opportunity to study for free at HSE University’s other campuses in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Students are provided with dormitory accommodation for the duration of their stay in another city.

Graduates of the programme have a wide range of relevant professional competencies and skills suitable for numerous roles.

Prospective employers include:

• commercial and non-commercial organisations in Russia and abroad
• state and local self-governing bodies
• educational, scientific, research, expert and analytical institutions
• courts
• prosecutor's offices
• law enforcement agencies
• notary offices
• bar associations and more

The Master's in Legal Support of Entrepreneurial Activity offers 15 state-funded places and 3 commercial places for international applicants.

Applicants can enrol in the programme based on the results of a written civil law exam consisting of a test and two case studies.

To apply, register here.

Full information about the admissions process for international students is available here.

Contact details for more information about admissions: admissionsperm@hse.ru, WhatsApp, Telegram: +7 (919) 486 61 31