In addition to my host school, I volunteered to teach at the main law faculty of the state university. During the fall term I presented a course in international humanitarian law, and in the spring semester I taught a course in international law and the use of force. The law faculty is one of the oldest departments of the university, with many famous graduates, including V.I. Lenin. The library holds the surviving remnants of the Czar s law library, and now has the only computerized legal research facility in Russia. Russian legal education is based on a five-year undergraduate program.
Graduates generally go on to positions in government or the commercial sector.
The law school is better equipped and organized than the other schools, and there is a modern research facility. Teaching in Russia required some major adjustments. The university schedules are slow to be determined and difficult to follow, and changes often occur at the last minute. This is true even if they have not attended the classes. But since I announced in the beginning that class participation would be part of my requirement, I was not very flexible with the handful of students who showed up at the end of the semester.