Continuing to Raise Educational Quality, the Faculty of Law Establishes Nine Study Centres

The Faculty of Law at Unissula continues to innovate in improving the quality with which it carries out the three duties of higher education. One way is by empowering the faculty's study centres. "I hope every study centre will begin designing important and strategic activities, especially those connected with raising and developing scholarly insight and, in turn, with deepening our concern for the environment and for society," said the Dean of the Faculty of Law, Prof Dr Jawade Hafidz SH MH, at the inauguration of the study centre boards on Thursday (17/6/2026).

Prof Jawade said there are nine study centres: the Centre for Intellectual Property Rights and Student Competency Certification; the Centre for Pancasila and the Constitution; the Centre for International Law and Human Rights; the Centre for Advocate Professional Education and Laboratories; the Centre for Mediation, Arbitration and Bankruptcy; the Centre for Police and Prosecution Studies; the Centre for Land and Environmental Affairs; the Centre for Entrepreneurship Law; and the Centre for Anti-Corruption Studies. The Dean inaugurated all of their boards.

At the same time, the Faculty of Law expanded its cooperation with Jimly School, marked by the signing of a cooperation agreement between Dean Prof Jawade Hafidz SH MH and the Director of Jimly School of Law in Surabaya, Prof Dr M Choirul Huda SH MH.

According to Prof Jawade, Jimly School is a productive institution in contributing to academic communities at universities by offering motivation and sharing its knowledge and experience. "This cooperation will take the form of mediation training, contract training and the like, involving lecturers and students, as well as the Faculty of Law's study centres, so that they can work in synergy with Jimly School," he explained.

Expert Lecture on Bureaucratic Reform

The event continued with an expert lecture by Prof Dr H Jimly Asshiddiqie SH MH on the urgency of bureaucratic reform in achieving good governance.

Within constitutional law he distinguishes three parts: constitutional rules, constitutional institutions, and constitutional culture. "This time we are discussing the second — state institutions," he explained.

"So we must evaluate the bureaucracy in the broad sense. How do we read it afresh after 28 years of reform? What is the institutional structure of the state within the executive, the judiciary and the legislature?" he continued.

In his view, institutions do not need too many people, because the more coordinators there are within a body, the less coordination there actually is. "A small organisation can rely on individual figures. A large organisation needs a system — as do modern organisations," he explained.

He also stressed that good governance must go hand in hand with legality and constitutional government. "Good governance requires eleven values: strategic vision, the rule of law, rules of ethics, mission-driven government, participation, accountability — the willingness to be criticised — transparency, consensus orientation, efficiency, and fairness and equality for all," he concluded.