The Chair of Civil Law and Civil Procedure Law of the Institute of Law at the Russian-Armenian University was established in 2004 and has since become an important pillar of academic, educational, and professional development.
From 2004 to 2024, the Chair was headed by Araik Georgievich Tunyan, Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor. Under his leadership, the scientific foundations, system of values, and strategic directions of the Chair were formed, which continue to inspire new generations of lawyers.
As of 16 February 2024, Karen Hektorovich Sardaryan, Candidate of Legal Sciences, has been appointed Acting Head of the Department.
The academic and educational activities of the Chair are aimed at:
The academic and educational activities of the Chair are aimed at:
- in-depth and comprehensive study of private law and issues of civil procedure in the Republic of Armenia and the Russian Federation;
- placing strong emphasis on developing students’ research potential;
- ensuring the training of highly qualified specialists at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels.
The main research areas of the Chair include:
The core research areas of the Chair of Civil Law include studies in the field of civil law of the Republic of Armenia and the Russian Federation, with particular focus on the development of the institutions of the law of obligations and property law, contractual structures, and mechanisms for the protection of civil rights. A significant place is occupied by comparative legal research on the civil law of foreign jurisdictions, aimed at identifying common trends and best practices in the regulation of private law relations.
A separate area of research is civil procedure in the Republic of Armenia and the Russian Federation, including analysis of procedural principles, law of evidence, court costs, interim measures, as well as the effectiveness of judicial protection and enforcement of judicial acts. The Department also conducts research in the field of Roman private law as a fundamental basis of modern civil law scholarship and a source of key legal categories and concepts.
Within the framework of business law, the Chair studies legal forms of doing business, regulation of commercial transactions, liability of market participants, as well as issues related to balancing public and private law principles in the economy. Corporate law research covers the legal status of legal entities, corporate governance, shareholders’ and participants’ rights, shareholders’ agreements, and resolution of corporate disputes.
Among the priority research areas is intellectual property law, including studies of the legal regime of intellectual property objects and means of individualization, circulation of exclusive rights, and protection of the interests of rights holders. In the field of banking law, the Chair examines issues of contractual regulation of banking services, the legal nature of banking operations, liability of credit institutions, and protection of clients’ rights. The final key research block concerns insolvency (bankruptcy) law, focusing on insolvency procedures, instruments for protecting creditors’ and debtors’ interests, transaction avoidance, subsidiary liability, and the correlation between bankruptcy mechanisms and general norms of civil law.
Research Partners of the Chair
The Chair develops research cooperation with universities in the Republic of Armenia and the Russian Federation and actively participates in organizing and conducting academic events together with the S.S. Alekseev Research Center for Private Law under the President of the Russian Federation, V.F. Yakovlev Ural State Law University, Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL), National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University), and Lomonosov Moscow State University.
The Chair also cooperates with the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union, Resolve Academy, and other institutions.
Recent Publications of the Chair’s Faculty:
Educational programs implemented by the Chair
Within the framework of the Chair’s activities, three levels of educational programmes are implemented:
- Bachelor’s programmes
- Master’s programmes ((ООП 40.04.01 «Корпоративный юрист», 40.04.01 «Гражданский процесс, арбитражный процесс», ՄԿԾ «Գործարարական իրավունք» (очное и заочное обучение));
- Postgraduate programmes in the specialties 5.1.3. Частно-правовые (цивилистические) науки (ԺԲ.00.03 Частное право) , ԺԲ.00.04 Судебное право.
BACHELOR’S PROGRAMMES
The key objective of the Department at the bachelor’s level is to ensure a high-quality and effective educational process through the transfer of knowledge in the field of civil law and the development of professional skills.
MASTER’S PROGRAMMES
The main objective of the Chair at the master’s level is to provide a high-quality and effective educational process within the programmes “Corporate Lawyer”, “Entrepreneurial Law”, and “Civil Procedure, Arbitration Procedure” through in-depth delivery of specialized knowledge and the formation of applied professional skills.
The training is aimed at developing analytical and strategic thinking among master’s students, the ability to work with complex legal situations, to find well-reasoned and non-standard solutions, to conduct independent research, and to interact effectively in small groups, thereby contributing to the training of highly qualified specialists.
Within the master’s programmes, faculty members form students’ systematic and in-depth understanding of corporate and entrepreneurial law, as well as mechanisms of judicial protection in civil and arbitration proceedings.
POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMMES
The postgraduate programmes in the specialties 5.1.3. Частно-правовые (цивилистические) науки, (ԺԲ.00.03 Частное право), ԺԲ.00.04 Судебное право are aimed at:
- in-depth study of private law and civil procedure in order to identify scientific and practical problems of specific legal institutions and norms;
- involvement of postgraduate students and doctoral candidates in the development of conceptual approaches in the relevant field;
- comprehensive and high-quality training of academic and teaching staff in the field of private law.
Education
In 1996. graduated from the law faculty of Yerevan State University.
In 1997. Advanced training was held at the Tver regional training center of the prosecutor’s office of the RF.
In 2001-2005. was a graduate of the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of the RA.
In 2005. defended the PhD thesis and received the degree of Candidate of Legal Sciences.
Career as a lawyer
In 1997-2000. - Investigator of the Moscow-Yaroslavl Transport Prosecutor’s Office of Moscow.
In 2001-2006. - Deputy Head of the Legal Department of the City Hall of Yerevan.
In 2006-2010gys. - private lawyer practicing in civil cases.
From 2010. to the present - lawyer of the Chamber of Lawyers of RA.
Academic activities
In 2002-2007. - Professor of the Law Faculty of the French University in Armenia.
In 2005-2015 - Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and History of the State and Law Faculty of Law of the Russian-Armenian (Slavic) University. He is a graduate student of the University of Moscow.
In 2006-2012. - Dean of the Faculty of Law of the Russian-Armenian (Slavic) University.
In 2012-2013. - Scholar secretary of the Russian-Armenian (Slavic) University.
In 2013-2015 - Head of the Department of Theory and History of the State and Law Institute of Law and Politics of the Russian-Armenian (Slavic) University. He is a professor at the University of Moscow.
From 2017 to 2022. - a lecturer at the Yerevan branch of M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University,
From 2015 to present - a teacher in the School of Lawyers of RA and in the Chamber of Advocates of RA. He is also a professor at the Academy of Law of RA.
Author of more than 20 scientific papers in various fields of jurisprudence.
Co-author of the current Civil Code of RA.