V. M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law of the
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine


V. M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is a leading research and educational centre wellknown in Ukraine and abroad. It was founded in 1969 on the basis of State-and-Law Sector of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences which had acted since May 1949. The Head of the Sector and then the first Director of the Institute was a famous scholar and lawyer, research organizer and public figure, academician V. M. Koretsky. From 1974 till 1988 the Institute was headed by academician B. M. Babiy. Academician Y. S. Shemshouchenko has been the director of the Institute since October 1988.

On the staff of the Institute there are more than 50 doctors and candidates of sciences. Among them are academicians and associate members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Academy of Legal Sciences. Many research workers of the Institute have been given the titles of Honoured workers of science and technology of Ukraine and Honoured Lawyers of Ukraine. They have been awarded with state rewards, as well as awards of the President of Ukraine, state and academic prizes named after distinguished scientists.

There are 8 departments which serve as the focal point of the Institute's intellectual activities. They are:
1)department of theoretical problems of state and law;
2)department of historical and politological studies of state and law of Ukraine;
3)department of constitutional law and local self-government;
4)department of problems of civil, labor and busi- ness law;
5)department of problems of state mana- gement and administrative law;
6)department of problems of agrarian, land and ecological law;
7)de- partment of problems of criminal law, criminology and legal proceedings;
8)department of international law and comparative law. These departments carry out research in the sphere of state and law control over national ecological security and agricultural rela- tions; international law and comparative law; human rights protection; ethnic constitutional law; prevention of crime and ensuring national security etc.

The Institute is responsible for preparing and publishing 6-volume Juridical encyclopaedia. Resear- chers of the Institute take part in preparing draft bills. They were included to the Constitutional com- mission and the working group dealing with the draft Constitution of Ukraine. The Institute provides expert opinion and consulting legal aid for the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Government, the Administration of the President of Ukraine, judicial and state bodies.

The Institute cooperates with the corresponding bodies of the UNO, Council of Europe, foreign embassies, associations of lawyers, international funds, scientific centers of different countres.

There are Academic Council, Consulting Centre, International Centre of space law. Centre of banking law, Council for legal and research expertise and Centre for preparing and publishing Juridical ency- clopaedia. On the basis of the Institute functions Council for coordination of fundamental legal re- search of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

There are post- graduate courses and doctor's de- gree* research courses in the Institute, specialized Academic Councils which take decision to award degrees of doctor or candidate of laws and polito- logy. There is also Council of voung scientists. In 1996 the Higher School of Law was founded at the Institute. This is a higher educational es- tablishment of law.

The Institute publishes annual scientific bulletin constitutional State" and research year-book of young scientists "State and Law". The Institute is also a co-publisher of the journal "Ukrainian Law".

 

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