Head of the Department is Kalbayev Nuraden, Candidate of Juridical Science, Professor

The teaching staff of the Department of State and Legal Disciplines
seeks to generate in students solid knowledge, to form a clear civil
position, based on moral categories of honor and dignity, which is
fundamental for future lawyers-jurists. A priority for the Department is
the quality of students’ knowledge.

One of the main Departments of EAGI is the Department of State and
Legal Disciplines, which trains specialists of the legal profile since
September 1999.

The Department since the first days of its activity pays special
attention to the quality of students’ knowledge. The experienced and
qualified teachers as Abishev H. A., Akhmetova G. K., Idrissov K. Z.,
Drokin Yu. N. conduct classes at a high scientific-methodological level.
On special subjects “Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure”, “Civil Law
and Civil Process” along with the traditional methods use interactive
ones, conducting classes in the form of court proceedings, raising the
interest of students to study disciplines and the specialty. The staff
of the Department replenished with new teachers, including lawyers with
practical experience: Idrissov K. Z., Mukazhanov K. M., Drokin Yu. N.,
Ischanova A.U., Kalbayev N. E., who brought new life to theoretical and
practical training.

For the purpose of professional training and improvement of practical
skills for teaching were invited legal practitioners with high
qualification from national public enterprises and institutions.

Now the Department of State and Legal Disciplines is solid and united team with one purpose and its own traditions.

The Department employs highly qualified specialists. Among them:
Doctors of Science, Professors, Candidates of Science, Docents, Masters
of Science and Senior lecturers. Furthermore, leading lawyers of
Kazakhstan are invited for lecturing.

The teachers of the Department are constantly looking to improve the
training of specialists. In lectures and seminars there are different
methods: the decision of situational tasks, role plays, small group
work, role-play method, modeling of investigation, legal analysis,
student hearings and others.

In order to improve and intensify the educational process, the
teachers of the Department are monthly updated materials from reference
system “Paragraph”, “Law”, the Center of the Ministry of Justice of RK,
the Committee on Legal Statistics and Special Accounting of the General
Office of Public Prosecutor of Kazakhstan, the Kazakh Parliament, the
Ministries of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Textbooks, manuals, monographs, research papers of the teachers of
the Department such as Abishev H.A., Baltabaev K.Zh., Idrissov K.Z.,
Mukazhanov K.M., Akkulev A.Sh., Zhumabayev E.Zh., Mussynova G.E. are in a
great demand among the students. The staff and students have the
opportunity to use the Internet, instructional literature on electronic
media.

The research work of the students is one of the factors improving the
training of specialists. Future lawyers are actively involved in the
traditional conference of the Institute “Science and the New Generation”
and the best reports are published in the conference proceedings.

The Students of the institute strengthen a deep theoretical knowledge
by skills of practical work. To achieve this aim the Department
concluded the contracts of having the professional practice of students
in the Law enforcement bodies of the Republic and the city of Astana.
The students have benefits from having practice in the courts, the
notary offices, in the regional departments of the Internal Affairs, the
Prosecutor’s Office. Good quality practical training can be judged by
the trainee’s characteristics and the grateful letters from the
companies of the basic training places.

Some teachers of the Department have the government awards for their
work. For example, Professor Abishev H. A., Baltabayev K.Zh. are awarded
the Orders “Құрмет”, Senior teacher Kaldybaev. K. S. are awarded the
Jubilee Medals “Қазақстан Конституциясына 10 жыл”.

As recognition of high professional skills, Professor Mukazhanov K.
M., Docent Drokin Yu.N., Senior teachers Akhmetova G.K., Mussynova G.E.,
Saulen N.S. are awarded the Badges “Pedagogue- Researcher”,
“Teacher-Innovator” of the Kazakh Academy of Education.

As priority development objectives of the Department of State and
Legal Disciplines are defined: further development of educational,
educational-methodical, material-technical base, improvement and
implementation of innovative educational technologies, improving
professional level of the teaching staff, intensifying scientific and
educational work.

Thus, the primary mission of the Department is to implement the
requirements of the state, business structures, the system of
professional legal education and legal science in highly qualified
specialists in the sphere of civil and criminal process, and also
scientific and legal support of the legislative process and practice
needs.

The strategic directions of development of the Department:

1. improving the quality of training according to the profile of the
   Department of specialists with higher and postgraduate education;
2. increasing the results of research activities of the Department;
3. improving socio-educational work with students.