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Faculty of Legal Studies  

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The Faculty of Legal Studies is the first unit in the structure of Burgas Free University and the second one established in Bulgaria after the Faculty of Law of St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University. It was constituted in 1990 on the initiative and with the cooperation of prominent scientists from the Institute of Legal Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Science and the Faculty of Law of St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University.

At present there are over 1,300 full-time and part-time students at the Faculty of Law. In 1995 the first alumni graduated the Faculty; until now there are eight batches of graduates of the Law speciality.

Within the structure of the Faculty of Law there are the following programme councils: ‘Public Law’, ‘Private Law’ and ‘Theory of Law and Public Studies’.

The Faculty of Law is the only one in the country that gives priority to the training in Public Law and International Law Studies. Within the structure of the Faculty there is a Students’ Legal Clinic, a Refugees Law Clinic and a Laboratory on Maritime Law. The Faculty has signed a long-term programme for cooperation with the Bulgarian Association of International Law and the Institute of International Law – Sofia.  The Faculty of Law has developed cooperation scientific activities with legal faculties of the Universities in Cambridge, London, Brussels, Gratz, Helsinki and Amsterdam. It has been a project-partner in the TEMPUS-PHARE JEPs “Logic of Democracy”, “Establishment of a Local Government Training Network”, “Introducing Alternatives to Imprisonment” together with universities in the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and Ireland.