Kazan Federal University was founded in 1804. Today it is one of the leading universities in Russia and is included in the Russian academic excellence project TOP5/100. Scientific publications are one of the main indicators of the university's scientific status. Kazan Federal University has been awarded four stars by the QS Stars Rating system in recognition of its commitment to the highest academic achievements and internalization of academic activities.

It should be noted that the Faculty of Law is one of the oldest institutions of our university, and it has always occupied an important place in the development of the university and Russia as a whole. Traditionally, the Faculty of Law pays attention to both legal education and scientific and legal activities. This tradition continues today: under the guidance of the Faculty of Law a dissertation committee works, one third of our lectures are given by doctors of law, the faculty often acts as a venue for major international conferences, textbooks and collections of scientific works are published, schools of legal thinking are formed.

Kazan Federal University publishes fourteen journals, and now two of them are published under the guidance of the Faculty of Law.

The establishment of its own English-language international law journal "Kazan University Law Review" is a truly significant event not only for the Law Faculty, but also for the entire university, as the journal is the first in the history of the Law Faculty and Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University.

The date of the journal's foundation was November 17, 2016, on the 212th anniversary of the founding of Kazan Federal University and on the eve of the Lawyer's Day.

The idea to create "Kazan University Law Review" emerged in 2015 as a breakthrough research project of the Faculty of Law, designed to strengthen and expand international ties between our faculty and leading law schools abroad, as well as to become a platform for discussion of progressive ideas of prominent scholars and practitioners in the field of jurisprudence. There are not many journals with such a concept in Russia, and we hope that "Kazan University Law Review" will become one of the main sources on Russian legal scholarship for scholars and lawyers abroad, as well as a forum on foreign legal thought for Russian readers.