The University Age: Historical and Legal Notes to the Centenary of the Ural State Law University
The Ural State Law University solemnly celebrated its centenary. It updated the appeal to the past of the university, to the traditions of Russian legal education and science. The anniversary became simultaneously an event, an object of study, and a strategy for learning the legal-university history. The aim of the article is to defie promising, largely interrelated historical and legal subjects of the history of the law university. Multifaceted signifiance of the anniversary for the law university is considered: its role in the development of academic culture and corporate commemorative practices, in promoting the image of the university, in gaining new knowledge on the university, in studying the pre-institute period of its history (1918–1931). The problem of the sources of knowledge on the history of the USLU is defied. The particular importance of legitimizing the transition periods is described. For example, the Resolution of the Council of Ministers of 1919 explicitly recognized the university in Irkutsk and the faculty of law as the basis of our university. The author raised the question of the need to interpret sources that are not typical for the law university history’ such as oral history, museum subjects. The article noted the importance of politics and ideology in the history of law university, as well as the prospects of its consideration through the prism of the anthropological approach.