Ural Law University Trains Students to Work With AI
Ural State Law University named after Yakovlev is adapting its educational model to the realities of the digital age. The university has already introduced a course on artificial intelligence technologies, while faculty members are undergoing specialized training.
According to Maksim Goncharov, AI remains a supporting tool and cannot replace a lawyer.
“If any artificial intelligence system were allowed to make legally significant decisions and produced even a 1 percent rate of hallucinations – who would be willing to take that risk?” he said.
In 2026, the university launched the Tekhnologicheskaya yurisprudentsiya (Technological Jurisprudence) program as part of the Tekhnoregulyatorika (Tech Regulation) project. It also introduced new tracks focused on legal regulation of transport and logistics and on crisis management economics.
“Life constantly presents new challenges, new fields emerge, and we see how the state, the economy, and society set new tasks. The legal profession must respond to them – it cannot stand aside, it must accompany and support these processes,” Goncharov said.
