Department of Special Legal Disciplines

Yeshnazarov Almaz Algazovich

Head of the Department of Special Legal Disciplines

Class rank: Counselor of Justice

Academic degree, academic title, academic degree: candidate of legal sciences

Experience in scientific and pedagogical work: more than 14 years

Topic of the candidate’s dissertation: “Privilege and immunity in criminal proceedings (under the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan)” (specialty: 12.00.09: criminal procedure, criminology and forensic examination; operational investigative activities).

Area of scientific interests: criminal procedural law, workload standards, countering extremism and terrorism, cybercrimes and human trafficking.

Has a certificate of accreditation as a subject of scientific and (or) scientific and technical activities of the Ministry of Education and Science (Series MK 006228 dated August 3, 2020).

Scientific works: has more than 30 published works (scientific articles, textbooks)

Disciplines taught in master’s and doctoral studies:

— Theory and practice of application of criminal procedural legislation in law enforcement;

— Theory and practice of applying measures of criminal procedural coercion;

— Workshop on criminal procedural law;

— The practice of applying measures of criminal procedural coercion in criminal proceedings.


Begaliev Yernar Nurlanovich

(since January 2024, he has been in the reserve of the Academy)

Position: Professor of the Department of Special Legal Disciplines

Class rank: Counselor of Justice

Science degree, scientific title, academic degree: Doctor of Law, Professor

Experience of scientific and pedagogical work: 21 years, honorary worker of education of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Topics of candidate and doctoral dissertations: Ph.D. thesis “Forensic support for the investigation of crimes committed by counterfeiting banknotes”, doctoral dissertation “Theoretical foundations of the investigation of crimes committed by counterfeiting material objects” (specialty: 12.00.09: criminal procedure; forensic science and forensic examination ; operational-search activity).

Research interests: criminalistics; forensic examination; operational-search activity

Scientific works: author of more than 180 scientific works:

Disciplines taught in doctoral studies:

– Novels in modern criminology;

– Methods of planning and organization of scientific research on the cycle of criminal disciplines.


Zhempiisov Nazarbek Sharuanovich

Professor of the Department of Special Legal Disciplines

Class rank: Senior Adviser of Justice

Academic degree, academic title, academic degree: candidate of legal sciences

Experience in scientific and pedagogical work: more than 20 years

Topic of the candidate’s dissertation: “Criminal liability for false entrepreneurship” (specialty: 12.00.08: criminal law and criminology; criminal executive law).

Area of scientific interests: Problems of criminology and criminal law, national security, geopolitics, macroeconomics.

Scientific works: Has more than 50 scientific works, of which: commentary on articles of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan on crimes falling under the jurisdiction of the financial police; textbooks: “Criminal liability of legal entities” (co-author), “Criminology (General part)”.

Disciplines taught in doctoral studies:

— Anti-crime strategies;

— State legal support for national security of the Republic of Kazakhstan.


Khan Vitaly Vyacheslavovich

Professor of the Department of Special Legal Disciplines

Class rank: Counselor of Justice

Academic degree, academic title, academic degree: candidate of legal sciences, associate professor

Experience in scientific and pedagogical work: 21 years

Topic of the candidate’s thesis: “The Anglo-Saxon model of pre-trial proceedings in criminal cases (on the example of modern legislation in England and the USA)” (specialty 12.00.09: criminal procedure; criminology and forensic examination; operational investigative activities).

Area of scientific interests: issues of theory and history of criminal proceedings, law enforcement agencies and the judiciary; problems of implementing constitutional and procedural guarantees of individual rights and freedoms in criminal proceedings; legal and organizational foundations of law enforcement and judicial activities; anti-corruption mechanisms; doctrine of criminal pre-trial proceedings; concepts of procedural coercion measures and the theory of judicial evidence; alternatives to criminal prosecution and savings in criminal repression; criminal proceedings of foreign countries; methods of teaching criminal procedural law.

Scientific works: author of more than 100 scientific works.

Disciplines taught in doctoral studies:

Theory of criminal procedure law;

Theoretical issues of criminal procedure law.


Filipets Oksana Borisovna

Associate Professor of the Department of Special Legal Disciplines

Class rank: Counselor of Justice

Academic degree, academic title, academic degree: candidate of legal sciences, associate professor

Experience in scientific and pedagogical work: more than 24 years

Topic of the candidate’s dissertation: “Delay of serving a sentence under the criminal law of the Republic of Kazakhstan” (specialty 12.00.08: criminal law and criminology; criminal executive law)

Area of scientific interests: criminal law, criminal executive law.

Has a certificate of accreditation as a subject of scientific and (or) scientific and technical activities of the Ministry of Education and Science (MK No. 003942 dated March 28, 2014).

Scientific works: Has 80 published works, including articles on issues of criminal and penal law, as well as on methods of teaching disciplines. Author of one textbook; co-author of two collections of problems and two textbooks on criminal law, a Commentary on the Criminal Code and one monograph.

Disciplines taught in master’s and doctoral studies:

Scientific basis for qualifying criminal offenses against property;

Current problems in the theory and practice of applying criminal and penal legislation;

Theory and practice of applying the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in law enforcement;

Problems of legal regulation and practice of implementing other measures of criminal law;

Criminal legal and penitentiary problems of institutions of punishment and other measures of criminal legal influence.


Alibekova Asel Muratovna

Associate Professor of the Department of Special Legal Disciplines

Class rank: Junior Counselor of Justice

Academic degree, academic title, academic degree: candidate of legal sciences

Experience in scientific and pedagogical work: 24 years

Topic of the candidate’s dissertation: “Criminal legal and criminological characteristics of illegal entrepreneurship” (specialty: 12.00.08: criminal law and criminology; criminal executive law).

Area of scientific interests: criminal law and criminal-executive law.

Scientific works: Has 30 published works, including articles on criminal law issues. Co-author of a collection of problems and three textbooks on criminal law, a Commentary on the Criminal Code and a textbook.

Disciplines taught in master’s and doctoral studies:

Theory and practice of applying the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in law enforcement;

Problems of qualification of criminal offenses in the field of economic activity;

Legal regulation and problems of implementing the criminal policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

Problems of criminal legal measures to counter corruption crime;

Problems of qualification of criminal offenses;

Criminal legal and penitentiary problems of institutions of punishment and other measures of criminal legal influence.


Amurtaeva Dinara Talgatovna

Associate Professor of the Department of Special Legal Disciplines

Class rank: lawyer 1st class

Academic degree, academic title, academic degree: candidate of legal sciences

Experience in scientific and pedagogical work: 24 years

Topic of the candidate’s dissertation: “Problems of qualification of causing grievous harm to health under the criminal legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan” (specialty 12.00.08: criminal law and criminology; criminal executive law).

Area of scientific interests: criminal law, criminology, penal law, problems of qualification of criminal offenses, criminal liability of minors, problematic issues of probation and restorative justice.

Scientific works: has over 60 publications in journals with impact factors recommended by KKSON and RSCI. Two textbooks “Criminal legal measures to combat transnational organized crime in the Republic of Kazakhstan” have been prepared in the state and Russian languages.

Disciplines taught in master’s and doctoral studies:

— Problems of the institution of restored justice;

— Practice of using the probation institution in the Republic of Kazakhstan;

— Problems of implementing prosecutorial supervision in the Republic of Kazakhstan

— Prosecutor’s activities in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Workshop.

— Countering attacks against the individual.


Kazhenov Ergazy Erdenovich

Associate Professor of the Department of Special Legal Disciplines

(since March 29, 2024, retired Academy)

Class rank: Counselor of Justice

Academic degree, academic title, academic degree: candidate of legal sciences

Experience in scientific and pedagogical work: 20 years

Topic of the candidate’s dissertation: “Criminal law and criminological problems of liability for knowingly false testimony of a witness or victim” (specialty: 12.00.08: criminal law and criminology; criminal executive law).

Area of scientific interests: criminal and penal law, international criminal law.

Has a certificate of accreditation as a subject of scientific and (or) scientific and technical activities of the Ministry of Education and Science.

Scientific works: Has more than 50 scientific works

Disciplines taught in the master’s program:

International law enforcement cooperation;
Workshop on criminal law (practice of qualification of criminal offenses).


Mediev Renat Amangeldyevich

senior lecturer of the department of special legal disciplines

(since May 27, 2024, in an internship with the «Bolashak» program)

Class rank: Counselor of Justice

Academic degree, academic title, academic degree: doctor (PhD), associate professor (associate professor)

Experience in scientific and pedagogical work: 12 years

Topic of the dissertation: “Criminal procedural synthesis of investigative and operational investigative powers of the investigator in the context of reforming the legal system of the Republic of Kazakhstan.”

Area of scientific interests: criminal procedure, criminology, operational investigation.

Scientific works: has more than 70 published works (scientific articles, textbooks, monographs).

Disciplines taught in master’s and doctoral studies:

— Problems of ensuring human rights when carrying out covert investigative actions in the Republic of Kazakhstan;

— Covert investigative actions in the theory and practice of criminal prosecution bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

— Combating money laundering and terrorist financing. Conducting financial investigations;

— Situational modeling in forensic tactics;

— Novels in modern criminology.


Avgustkhan Syrym Avgustkhanuly

Associate Professor of the Department of Special Legal Disciplines

Class rank: Counselor of Justice

Academic degree, academic title, academic degree: PhD doctor in the specialty “Jurisprudence”

Experience in scientific and pedagogical work: more than 12 years

Topic of doctoral dissertation: “Problems of legal and criminological support for the investigation of violent crimes committed in penal institutions in the CIS countries”

Area of scientific interests: criminal law, criminal executive law, problems of qualification of criminal offenses, problematic issues of probation

Scientific works: author of more than 30 scientific works

Disciplines taught in the master’s program:

Current problems in the theory and practice of applying criminal and penal legislation;

Problems of criminal legal protection of the individual;

Practice of using the probation institution in the Republic of Kazakhstan;

Criminal legal and penitentiary problems of institutions of punishment and other measures of criminal legal influence.


Baimakhanov Artur Alisherovich

senior lecturer of the department of special legal disciplines

Class rank: Junior Counselor of Justice

Academic degree, academic title, academic degree: PhD doctor in the specialty “Jurisprudence”

Experience in scientific and pedagogical work: more than 1 year

Topic of doctoral dissertation: “Organizational and legal aspects of investigation and prevention of non-fulfillment or improper fulfillment of responsibilities for raising a minor”

Area of scientific interests: criminal law, criminology, criminal executive law, problems of qualification of criminal offenses.

Scientific works: author of more than 20 scientific works

Disciplines taught in the master’s program:

Theory and practice of applying the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in law enforcement;

Problems of implementing prosecutorial supervision in the Republic of Kazakhstan;

Theory and practice of execution of punishments and other measures of criminal law;

Problems of ensuring the safety of minors;

Novels in modern criminology.


Tuleuova Moldir Yerlanovna

Position: Senior Lecturer at the Department of Special Legal Discipline at the Institute of Postgraduate Education.

Class rank: Senior Counselor of Justice

Science degree, scientific title, academic degree: Master of Laws

Experience of scientific and pedagogical work: over 10 years

The topic of the candidate’s dissertation: “Participation of a defense lawyer at the stage of preliminary investigation, as a means of ensuring the protection of the rights of participants in criminal proceedings: problematic aspects”

Research interests: criminal procedure law,

Scientific works: has more than 50 published works

Disciplines taught in master’s and doctoral studies:

– Theory and practice of application of criminal procedural law in law enforcement;

– The practice of applying measures of criminal procedural coercion in criminal proceedings.