Chair of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law

The Chair of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law was established in 2004, operates within the Institute of Law of RAU and serves as a specialist in criminal law and criminal procedure.
The Chair of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law of the Russian-Armenian University is one of the leading scientific, educational and research centers in the Republic of Armenia, Highly qualified specialists in the field of criminal law and criminal procedure.
The educational process is based on a combination of classroom classes and independent work, as well as active participation of students in optional scientific-practical activities, among which international, republican conferences, Seminars, round tables and other scientific events.
The chair actively cooperates with the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Armenia, the Probation Service of the Ministry of Justice of RA, the National Bureau of Expertise of the National Academy of Sciences of RA. Special attention to cooperation with the state authorities and administrations at central and local levels promotes restructuring and optimization of educational process and research activities. Among the partners of the Chair of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, with whom close cooperation is carried out on issues of scientific understanding of current problems of criminal law and criminal procedure science, Moscow State Law University should be noted.  O.E. Kutafin, Yaroslavl State University, Tolyattin State University, Boryati State University named after Dorje Banzaarov, Pottsdom University,  etc.
In order to implement the task of the chair of criminal law and criminal procedure of qualitative improvement of the educational process for the preparation of highly qualified specialists, there is a forensic office equipped with video cameras, microscopes, investigative suitcase and other technical tools necessary for conducting tracktest, scribe, dactyloscopic studies, This promotes practical development of students' methods of forensic research and forensic technology, as well as their inclusion in the science of criminology.
 

MISSION
The mission of the chair is to provide quality training and training of fully developed, highly professional and competitive professionals with high civic responsibility, who possess knowledge, skills, skills and experience in accordance with modern requirements, The experts in criminal law and criminal procedure are required to perform professional tasks.
In the spirit of values and traditions of RAU, the Chair sees its main task to educate active, responsible and initiative students, oriented at the same time on principles of academic freedom, high professionalism, patriotism.
The stated mission is achieved by introducing new educational technologies into the content of legal education, providing the disciplines studied with the necessary teaching materials, involving in the process of teaching experienced specialistspractitioners, establishing effective cooperation with legal and law enforcement bodies, conducting research by teachers and students.
 

Chair’s innovation activities
With the transition to online learning, the role of the electronic library in shaping the modern information space has increased. The chair initiated the process of creating a local electronic library in criminal law and criminal procedure direction, necessary for writing coursework, diploma and master’s degree. Electronic textbooks for distance learning of students are planned.
 

The Criminalistics audience
Since November 26, 2015, the  auditorium has been operating at the Chair of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, which is a structural unit of the chair and where laboratory and seminar classes on the subject "criminalistics" are held for students:

SCIENTIFIC FIELDS
The main scientific activities of the department are:

. The role of justice in ensuring legal security of the individual
2.  Contemporary challenges of anti-corruption
3.  Main areas of improvement of criminal law and criminal procedure policy of the Republic of Armenia and the Russian Federation
4.  The importance of forensic science in combating crime
5.  Digital criminal law, digital criminal proceedings: perspectives developed
6.  Medical criminal law
7.  Development of the penitentiary science to the modern stage
8.  The role of operational-search activity in criminal proceedings.
9.  Environmental criminologists

OUR GRADUATES
Our graduates are well-regarded on the Armenian, Russian, and international labor markets because of our high qualifications, competence, and competitiveness. The graduates of the department carry out professional activities in the judicial system, prosecutor’s office, police, in the Investigative Committee, National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia, as well as in law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation, international organizations, research and academic institutions, as well as private sector employment in Armenia and abroad.

BACHELOR'S DEGREE (fields):
Law (Russian sector (full-time and part-time forms of education), Armenian sector (full-time and part-time forms of education).

MASTER'S DEGREE:
0421.01.04.7 "Criminal law and procedure"
40.04.01 "Criminal law, criminology, penal enforcement law"
0421.01.04.7 "Criminal law and criminal procedure law"
40.04.01 "Lawyer in the field of criminal proceedings"
0421.01.04.7 "Criminal law and judicial proceedings"
042802.03.7 "Criminalistics" (one-year program)

Postgraduate study
The Chair of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law RHH II coordinates 5.1.4 Sciences of criminal Law scientific training of graduate students in the specialty:

DOCTORATE
12.00.08. "Criminal Law and Criminology; Criminal Executive Law"