[4] The Siberian Institute of Soviet Law (Russian: Сибирский институт советского права) was founded on 20 April 1931 in Irkutsk by the decision of the Government of the Soviet Union based on the Faculty of Law of Irkutsk State University.The academy was renamed to Ural State Law University by decree of Russian Ministry of Education and Science on April 22, 2014.[5] On 9 February 2022 the university was named after the first President of the High Court of Arbitration of Russia Veniamin Yakovlev.Since 1993, the University publishes scientific, theoretical and practical research projects of its students in cooperation with the Ministry of Justice .USLU maintains and develops relationships with a number of leading universities in Europe and the United States.