Today the faculty trains more than 1300 students.

The educational process is organized with the following priorities:

Effective teaching methods
a case method of training, interactive multimedia teaching materials, moot courts, etc.

Activization of independent work of students
On the bases of a new type of methodical maintenance of suggested courses, through the course and degree projects inspired by the themes suggested by the republic law enforcement, and the all-round development of students' research work.

Development quality assurance of education
the application of a monitoring system for assessing students' work during seminars and practical classes, cumulative assessment including current (on the results of work during practical classes), boundary (on the results of written tests ) and final (on results of the examination ) certification of students.

Providing students with high quality legal skills
the curriculum provides the following courses:
legal communication, interviewing and consultation with the client, legal research, alternative dispute resolutions and negotiation, judicial advocacy, legal drafting and writing, and the bases of professional work and ethics for the lawyer;
all students during the period of training go through four types of legal practice with the general duration of 12 weeks;
more than 50 percent of the faculty staff has long-lasted legal experience.

The results of All-Russia competitions, contests and Olympiads

Annually the students of the Law Faculty are among prize winners of regional and international conferences and competitions.
They prove to obtain the education according to high international standards.

The teams of the Law Faculty annually take part in different international moot courts such as Telders under the guidance of International Court of the United Nations (Hague, Netherlands ) in 2000, moot court in the field of commercial arbitrage named after Willem C. Vis (Vienna, Austria) in 2001.
In 1999 the team of the Faculty took the 2nd place in the Moot Court of Central and Eastern Europe with the team captain obtaining the best individual speaker award. The team from Russia took the prize for the first time in the 5 year history of this competition. (Krakow, Poland)
The University team won the distinction of being the first European team in 44 years to gain a spot in the final competition at the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, in Washington D.C., USA, in 2003. The team of the Faculty took the 2nd place at the competition.
Competing with 600 students from 136 international universities, the Mari State team captain won the Award for best speaker at the 2004 Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, in Vienna, Austria.
In 2007 the team gained a place in final competition at the J. Pictet International Humanitarian Law Moot Competition in Escorial, Spain.
The Mari State University Law Team succeeded in gaining a spot in final competition at the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot competition in USA in 2008.