The Russian School of Private Law (RSPL) is a structural unit of the Private Law Research Centre which is engaged in educational activity in Moscow as well as in the Ural’s subsidiary of the Research Centre (Yekaterinburg).
The RSPL is engaged in the training of the students under the program “The Master of private law” and it also offers the programs of the Further Professional Education in respect of two directions: further professional training of the lecturers of the chairs of private law and related subjects and further professional training of the attorneys at law, inhouse counsels and other members of the legal profession
Since 2021, the Research Centre arranges the complete cycle of the academic career for its master-graduates. In autumn 2021 the Research Centre obtained a license for post-graduate studies as per the specialization 5.1.3 “The private law (civilistic) studies”. The graduates of the RSPL interested in academic work will have opportunity to proceed with their research by studying at the postgraduate training program of the Centre. Alongside with the above in 2021 at the Research Centre the dissertation board for the defense of candidate and doctoral dissertations with the specialisation "The Private law (civilistic) sciences (the legal sciences)" was incorporated.
For the period of its operation The Russian School of Private Law has trained over one thousand qualified professionals which are engaged in the law drafting, educational and law enforcement at the highest level, thus developing the doctrine of private law and implementing its ideals in the real life.
From the moment of its incorporation the RSPL adheres to the four principles which enable it to ensure the high quality of preparation of the masters
The first principle
We carefully select the academic subjects and engage first-class lecturers and outstanding academics. Within the premises of The Russian School of Private Law they share their knowledge with the students regarding their works for which they are known. The RSPL provides opportunities to touch upon the creative works, up-to-date academic developments of the leaders of the legal profession.
The second principle
All the academic subjects taught at the RSPL have the author-developed character. There is no opportunity to get the knowledge of the material read within The Russian School of Private Law in any other university in this country.
The third principle
The RSPL has the chamber setting of education and the number of the students has been traditionally set as not high which enables us to select among the applicants only those who are determined to study the private law. We interact with the students as with our fellow colleagues with an aim to form a society of highly qualified professionals.
The fourth principle
The Russian School of Private Law is inextricably linked with the Centre and its research activity and for this reason our students may become witnesses of the generation and development of academic ideas before they have found their implementation in practice, are being implemented in the draft legislation and thus changing the legislative setting.
The academic staff of the RSPL includes the renowned specialists in the field of law and outstanding Russian civilists including Evgeniy Alexeevich Sukhanov (the academic head of the Research Centre). Dmitriy Vadimovich Dozhdev, Sergey Vasilyevitch Tretyakov, Konstantin Ilyich Sklovskiy, Alexander Sergeevitch Komarov, Lidia Yuryevna Mikheeva, Lyudmila Alexandrovna Novoselova, Anton Vladimirovich Asoskov, Elena Alexandrovna Pavlova, Oksana Mikhailovna Kozyr, Dmitry Ivanovich Stepanov, Andrey Mikhailovich Shirvindt, Anna Grigorievna Arkhipova, Vitaly Olegovich Kalyatin, Denis Vasilyevich Novak, Anna Alexandrovna Alekseeva, Mikhail Alexandrovich Tserkovnikov, Natalia Vladimirovna Tololaeva, Oleg Romanovich Zaitsev and many others.
The History
The Russian School of Private Law was incorporated as per the Executive Order of the President of Russia B.N. Yelstsin dated 17th March 1995 N 131-рп. The idea was generated by the founders of the Private Law Research Centre – the main developers of the Civil Code among others including the outstanding legal academics i.e. S.S. Alexeyev, V.A. Dozortsev, E.A. Sukhanov, S.A. Khokhlov and others.
The Civil Code the development of which took place on the basis the Research Centre came into effect in the 90-s. It’s coming into effect signified the intensive need for the qualified staff for its implementation – the new civilists, The Civil Code did not only represent a new law it signified the new era, the transition from the planned socialist economy to the free market. The new law became the beginning of the renaissance of the national civilistic school which had been lost for the decades of the “publicization” (i.e. enhancement of the public character) and statization of the civil law.
At that moment of time no law university of this country educated the said ideas and principles which proclaimed the Civil Code. In order to satisfy the needs in the new professionals in the field of the civil law the President of the Russian Federation adopted the program “The establishment and development of the civil law in Russia” (Order dated 7th July № 1473) and some moment later there appeared the Russian School of Private Law with its subdivisions in Moscow and Yekaterinburg.
The regular classes in the RSPL started from October, 1995. As per the initial concept of the developers of RSPL the mission of the newly formed educational institution consisted in training of the lawyers of the highest expertise capable of implementing the civilized fundamentals at the forming Russian market, bring stability and order to the forming economic turnover, assert the ideals and values of the private law, participate in the drafting of the new Russian legislation and undoubtedly be the heirs and successors of the national civilistic school, be the members of the fine legal culture delicately preserved by the leading Russian civilists.
The School has always had strong ties with the Research Centre: the employees of the Centre have been lecturing there, it is located within the premises of the Research Centre. On the basis of the Order of the President of the Russian Federation dated 31.12.2014 as well by the Executive Order of the Government of the Russian Federation the RSPL has been merged to the Research Centre as its educational unit.
At various year the rectors of the RSPL were Stanislav Antonovich Khokhlov, Yuri Khamzatovich Kalmykov, Pavel Vladimirovich Krasheninnikov, Alexander Lvovich Makovsky.
The following persons are graduates of The Russian School of Private Law: Sergey Vasilyevich Sarbash, Viktor Ivanovich Senchishchev, Anton Vladimirovich Asoskov, Artem Georgievich Karapetov, Dmitry Ivanovich Stepanov, Viktor Valentinovich Batsiev, Denis Vasilyevich Novak, Oleg Romanovich Zaitsev, Alexander Ivanovich Savelyev, Mikhail Alexandrovich Tserkovnikov, Andrey Mikhailovich Shirvindt, Natalya Vladimirovna Tololaeva and many others.