| Sumario: | Following the demise of the Soviet Union, Russian legal education received a boost. However, the resulting rapid growth caused severe segmentation of legal education providers. The present article discusses three types of legal education institutions: elite, mainstream, and “departmental.” The latter, established to train law-enforcement officers, are given special consideration because they are unique to the post-Soviet system of legal education. These three types of law schools differ in terms of teaching staff, instructional methods, and the content of teaching. To understand the current state of legal education, the analysis draws on survey data from 460 law school faculty as well as over 20 interviews and group discussions.
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