AVGUSTKHAN SYRYM AVGUSTKHANULY
Head of the Department
Class Rank: Senior Counsellor of Justice
Academic Degree: PhD in Law
Academic and Teaching Experience: more than 14 years
Doctoral Dissertation: Legal, Criminological and Forensic Issues in the Investigation of Violent Crimes Committed in Correctional Institutions in the CIS Countries.
Research Interests: criminal law, penal law, qualification of criminal offences, and probation.
Research Activities: author of more than 40 academic publications, including the study guides Criminal Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan: General Part, Criminal Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan: Special Part, and Criminal-Law Measures to Combat Transnational Organised Crime in the Republic of Kazakhstan (co-author); the study guide The Institution of Probation in the Republic of Kazakhstan; and the monograph Postponement of Serving a Sentence in the System of Criminal-Law Measures (co-author).
Courses Taught at Master’s and Doctoral Levels:
– Issues in the Criminal-Law Protection of the Individual;
– Practice of Applying Probation in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
ZHEMPIISOV NAZARBEK SHARUANOVICH
Professor
Class Rank: Senior Counsellor of Justice
Academic Degree and Title: Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor
Academic and Teaching Experience: more than 20 years
Candidate Dissertation: Criminal Liability for False Entrepreneurship (Speciality 12.00.08 – Criminal Law and Criminology; Penal Law).
Research Interests: criminology, criminal law, national security, geopolitics, and macroeconomics.
Research Activities: author of more than 60 academic publications, including a commentary on provisions of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan concerning offences investigated by the financial police; and the study guides Criminal Liability of Legal Entities (co-author), Criminology: General Part, and State and Legal Framework for National Security of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Courses Taught at Master’s and Doctoral Levels:
– State and Legal Framework for National Security of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
– International Legal Mechanisms for Combating Crime.
KHAN VITALY VYACHESLAVOVICH
Professor
Class Rank: Counsellor of Justice
Academic Degree and Title: Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor
Academic and Teaching Experience: 22 years
Candidate Dissertation: The Anglo-Saxon Model of Pre-Trial Proceedings in Criminal Cases: A Study of Contemporary Legislation in England and the United States (Speciality 12.00.09 — Criminal Procedure; Criminalistics and Forensic Examination; Operational-Investigative Activities).
Research Interests: theory and history of criminal procedure, law enforcement agencies and the judiciary; constitutional and procedural safeguards of individual rights and freedoms in criminal proceedings; legal and organisational foundations of law enforcement and judicial activities; anti-corruption mechanisms; pre-trial criminal proceedings; procedural coercive measures; theory of evidence; alternatives to criminal prosecution; criminal procedure in foreign jurisdictions; and methods of teaching criminal procedure.
Research Activities: author of more than 200 academic publications. +Кафедра специальных юридически…
Courses Taught at Master’s and Doctoral Levels:
– Contemporary Issues in Criminal Procedure;
– Theoretical Issues of Criminal Procedure Law;
– Management of Criminal Investigation Bodies.
ALIBEKOVA ASEL MURATOVNA
Associate Professor
Class Rank: Counsellor of Justice
Academic Degree: Candidate of Legal Sciences
Academic and Teaching Experience: 24 years
Candidate Dissertation: Criminal-Law and Criminological Characteristics of Illegal Entrepreneurship (Speciality 12.00.08 — Criminal Law and Criminology; Penal Law).
Research Interests: criminal law and penal law.
Research Activities: author of more than 30 publications, including articles on criminal law. Co-author of a collection of practical assignments and three textbooks on criminal law, a commentary on the Criminal Code, and a study guide. +Кафедра специальных юридически…
Courses Taught at Master’s and Doctoral Levels:
– International Legal Mechanisms for Combating Crime;
– Qualification of Criminal Offences: Issues in Practice;
– Legal Regulation and Implementation of Other Criminal-Law Measures;
– Criminal-Law and Penitentiary Issues of Punishment and Other Criminal-Law Measures.
AMURTAEVA DINARA TALGATOVNA
Associate Professor
Class Rank: Junior Counsellor of Justice
Academic Degree: Candidate of Legal Sciences
Academic and Teaching Experience: 27 years
Candidate Dissertation: Issues in the Legal Qualification of Grievous Bodily Harm under the Criminal Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Speciality 12.00.08 – Criminal Law and Criminology; Penal Law).
Research Interests: criminal law, criminology, penal law, qualification of criminal offences, juvenile criminal liability, probation, and restorative justice.
Research Activities: author of more than 70 publications, including publications in journals recommended by the relevant academic authorities and indexed in the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI). Author of two study guides in Kazakh and Russian entitled Criminal-Law Measures to Combat Transnational Organised Crime in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Courses Taught at Master’s Level:
– Challenges in Combating Transnational Organised Crime;
– Practice of Applying Probation in the Republic of Kazakhstan;
– Prosecutorial Activity in the Republic of Kazakhstan: Practicum;
– Issues in the Exercise of Prosecutorial Supervision in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
SYRBU ALEXANDER VLADIMIROVICH
Associate Professor
Class Rank: Senior Counsellor of Justice
Academic Degree and Title: Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor
Academic and Teaching Experience: 29 years
Candidate Dissertation: Procedural Framework for Obtaining and Using Information from Technical Communication Channels in Criminal Proceedings (Speciality 12.00.09 — Criminal Procedure; Criminalistics and Forensic Examination; Operational-Investigative Activities).
Research Interests: cybercrime, high-tech crime, use of operational-investigative information in criminal investigations, searches in computer networks, psychology of pre-trial investigation, computer forensics, criminal investigation, organisation of investigations, and investigative procedures.
Research Activities: author of more than 60 academic publications. Author of the study guides Interception of Communications in the System of Investigative Actions and Organisation and Conduct of Computer Forensic Examination. Co-author of several educational and practical manuals, including Practicum on Criminal Procedure Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Investigation of Criminal Cases Involving Theft of Property, Protection of Entrepreneurs’ Rights, and Organisational and Legal Mechanisms for Tracing Persons Evading Justice through Plastic Surgery and Circumvention of Biometric Recognition Systems.
Courses Taught at Master’s Level:
– Organisational and Legal Issues of Evidence in Criminal Investigations;
– Theoretical and Applied Issues in Criminal Proceedings.
FILIPETS OKSANA BORISOVNA
Associate Professor
Class Rank: Counsellor of Justice
Academic Degree and Title: Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor
Academic and Teaching Experience: 26 years
Candidate Dissertation: Postponement of Serving a Sentence under the Criminal Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Speciality 12.00.08 — Criminal Law and Criminology; Penal Law).
Research Interests: criminal law and penal law.
Accredited as a subject of scientific and/or scientific and technical activities by the Ministry of Education and Science (Certificate No. 003942 dated 28 March 2014).
Research Activities: author of 103 publications on criminal law, penal law, and teaching methodology. Author of two study guides; co-author of two collections of practical assignments, two criminal law textbooks, commentaries on the Criminal Code, and two monographs. +Кафедра специальных юридически…
Courses Taught at Master’s Level:
– Theory and Practice of Applying the Legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Law Enforcement;
– Qualification of Criminal Offences: Issues in Practice;
– Criminal-Law and Penitentiary Issues of Punishment and Other Criminal-Law Measures;
– Legal Regulation and Implementation of Other Criminal-Law Measures;
– Issues in the Qualification of Criminal Offences in Law Enforcement.
SADYKOV MUKHTAR BEIBUTOVICH
Senior lecturer
Class rank: Counsellor of Justice
Academic Degree and Title: PhD in Law; Master of Laws (V.F. Yakovlev Ural State Law University, Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation); Master of Public Administration (Nazarbayev University).
Two-time recipient of the Bolashak International Scholarship of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan: Bachelor’s degree with honours in Information Systems (Multimedia University, Malaysia); professional internship in Legal and Financial Aspects of the Functioning of International Financial Centres (University of California, Los Angeles, USA).
Academic and Teaching Experience: 5 years.
Dissertation and Thesis Topics: Artificial Intelligence in Law Enforcement: Legal, Organisational and Tactical Aspects (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)); Prosecutorial Inspections of State Control (Supervision) and Municipal Control Bodies: A Comparative Legal Analysis (the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan) (Master of Laws); Pension System Reform in Kazakhstan Based on the Experience of Singapore (Master of Public Administration).
Research Interests: combating cybercrime, legal regulation of artificial intelligence, information law, and digitalisation.
Research Activities: author of more than 25 academic publications, including 12 articles published in journals recommended by the authorised body of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and 1 article published in an international journal indexed in the Scopus database.
Textbook. Tynyshbayeva A.A., Gaipov Z.S., Sadykov M.B. Social Technologies in Public Administration. Astana: Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2025.
Monograph. Sadykov M.B. Conceptual Foundations for the Integration of Artificial Intelligence into Law Enforcement Activities. Kosshy: Law Enforcement Academy under the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2025.
Monograph. Collective of authors (M.B. Sadykov — contributing author). Artificial Intelligence Technologies in the Activities of Prosecution Authorities: Legal Regulation and Application Practices in the CIS Member States. Kosshy: Law Enforcement Academy under the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2025.
In 2023, M.B. Sadykov’s paper presented at a conference at Universiti Utara Malaysia was recognised as one of the top three papers among 200 participants from 9 countries and received the Best Paper Award.
Courses Taught at Master’s and Doctoral Levels:
– Legal Framework for Information Security in Law Enforcement;
– Legal Regulation of Information Technologies;
– International Experience in Combating Crime.
SHEGEBAEVA AIGERIM RYSBAEVNA
Senior lecturer
Class Rank: Counsellor of Justice
Academic Degree and Title: PhD, Associate Professor
Academic and Teaching Experience: 14 years
Doctoral Dissertation: Ensuring the Right to Privacy in Kazakhstan’s Criminal-Law Policy (PhD in Law Enforcement, 2016).
In 2024, she was awarded the academic title of Associate Professor in the field of Law by the Committee for Quality Assurance in Science and Higher Education of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Order No. 1200 dated 17 December 2024).
Research Interests: criminal law and criminology, penal law, and law enforcement.
Research Activities: participated in the Academy’s Interagency Research Institute research project on the organisational and legal framework for preventing offences involving the protection of flora and fauna.
Completed more than 15 professional development courses, including an online programme on Women’s Leadership in the Criminal Justice Sector organised by the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA), Budapest.
Author of more than 40 academic publications, including co-authored study guides on criminal law and criminology, Countering Offences against Flora and Fauna (in Kazakh and Russian), and Punishment in Criminal Law (in Kazakh). Her research has also been published in specialised academic journals, including journals recommended by the relevant national academic authority and journals indexed in Scopus.
