Regulations of the Department

History of the department

The Department of Theory and History of State and Law of the Faculty of Law was founded in accordance to the decision of the Academic Council of the NAU of September 19, 2001, with the aim of providing teaching of fundamental legal disciplines and the formation of students with sound knowledge in the field of law, as well as for developing the necessary general theoretical and historical and legal base of teaching fundamental and professionally-oriented legal disciplines. Since September 2001, the department was headed by Miroshnichenko Vasyl Ivanovych, candidate of historical sciences, associate professor. From September 2003 to February 2010, the head of the department was a candidate of legal sciences, professor Vitaliy Petrovich Marchuk.
Since 2010, the department is headed by Borodin Ivan Lukyanovich, Doctor of Law, Professor. The direction of his scientific activity is legal means of protecting human and civil rights and freedoms in Ukraine; problems of legal provision of administrative legal proceedings. Has trained 13 candidates of legal sciences, is the scientific leader of 2 post-graduate students. He is the author of two monographs on the problems of administrative and legal protection of human and civil rights and freedoms in Ukraine and the administrative process, training manuals on the administrative process and administrative responsibility, and more than 100 articles on the issues of administrative law and administrative process.The main tasks of the department are: ensuring the acquisition by students of a legal conceptual apparatus necessary for knowledge and mastery of legal disciplines; realization of legal education of students through subjects taught at the department; formation legal culture in students, skills and abilities of research work; organization and conducting of professional peer review practice.
The Department of Theory and History of State and Law provides the teaching of 25 disciplines and conducting a professional acquaintance practice.
Since October 2017, the scientific and pedagogical staff of the department provides teaching of subjects in English for students of the 1st year of the Law Faculty within the framework of the English-language project.
The main directions of the scientific-methodical and research work of the department are the problems of the theory and history of state and law and the actual problems of modern state building and legal thinking.
Lecturers of the Department of Theory and History of State and Law of the Faculty of Law take an active part in scientific-theoretical, republican, and international conferences, maintain close contacts with the Institute of State and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. VM Koretsky, Ministry of Justice of Ukraine and its territorial divisions, the Faculty of Law of Kyiv National University. Taras Shevchenko, Institute of Political Science and Law of the National Pedagogical University named after. MP Drahomanov and other higher educational institutions of Kyiv, organizations and institutions of legal direction.
The department holds round tables and theoretical and theoretical seminars on issues of protection of human and civil rights and freedoms, actual problems of state and law-making in Ukraine. It is important that, starting from the first year, students have the opportunity to participate in All-Ukrainian scientific conferences and under the guidance of experienced teachers to publish the theses of scientific research.
Teachers of the Department constantly conduct educational work among the students of the Faculty: associate professor of the department Makeieva O.M., art. Lecturer Varava I.P. are mentors of student academic groups. Teachers of the Department organize scientific and educational excursions for students to historic preserves and museums of Kyiv, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, conduct creative evenings, collective review of performances in theaters of the city.
Professional orientation work at the department is aimed at active involvement of entrants in training at the Law Department of the NAU. Different forms of it, in particular, personal talks of faculty teachers with future entrants, interesting performances by students of the Faculty of Law about the advantages of studying at NAU help to increase the rating and competitiveness of a higher educational institution.

Scientific and pedagogical personnel of the department of theory and history of state and law

Borodin Ivan Lukyanovych – Doctor of Law, Professor, the head of the department;

Kalyuzhny Rostyslav Andriyovych – Doctor of Law, Professor, responsible person for the scientific and methodic work of the Faculty;

Holovko Svitlana Grygorivna – Candidate of History, Associate Professor;

Makeieva Olena Mykolaivna – Candidate of Law, Associate Professor of the department;

Pylhun Natalia Vasylivna – Candidate of Law, Associate Professor;

Rybikova Anna Volodymyrivna - Candidate of Law, Associate Professor

Cherevatiuk Victoria Bogdanivna – Candidate of History, Associate Professor;

Shapenko Liudmyla Oleksandrivnа - Senior Lecturer;

Varava Irina Pavlovna - Senior Lecturer;

Vodolaskova Kateryna Yurivna - Candidate of Law, Associate Professor (part-time).

Priority directions of scientific work:

One of the priority areas of scientific work of the Department of Theory and History of State and Law is the work on the state budget theme " Legal consciousness and legal culture in conditions of civil society formation " №68/13.01.01 (01.09.2019 - 30.06.2022), scientific adviser Professor Borodin IL is a Ph.D.
The aim and the purpose of the departmental research work “Legal Consciousness and Legal Culture in Conditions of Civil Society Formation” is to consider and study theoretical and practical issues of forming legal culture and legal consciousness of citizens, overcoming of legal nihilism, corruption, criminalization of society, violations of rights and freedoms of a human and a citizen, as well as the increase of the level of legal education and legal education in the context of the civil society formation.
1. Human and citizen’s rights and freedoms – a philosophical and legal dimension (executor is Doctor of Juridical Science, Professor Borodin Ivan Lukyanovych).
2. Conceptual foundations of the correlation between a state and a civil society (executor is Doctor of Juridical Science, Professor Kalyuzhny Rostyslav Andriyovych).
3. Modernization of normative-legal support of the national educational branch functioning in the context of civil society formation (executor is Candidate of Historical Science, Associate Professor Holovko Svitlana Grygorivna)
4. Legal culture in the modern informational-legal space (executor is Candidate of Juridical Science, Associate Professor Makeieva Olena Mykolaivna).
5. A concept of legal culture as a component element of the general culture of a society (executor is Candidate of Juridical Science, Associate Professor Pilgun Natalia Vasylivna).
6. Civil Society in Ukraine in Conditions of European Integration (executor is Candidate of Historical Science, Associate Professor Cherevatiuk Victoria Bogdanivna).
7. Law and morality in the context of civil society development (executor is Senior Lecturer Shapenko Liudmyla Oleksandrivna).

List of Subjects of the Department of Theory and History of State and Law

1.Теорія держави і права
2. Історія держави і права України
3. Історія держави і права зарубіжних країн
4. Основи римського приватного права
5. Юридична деонтологія
6.Ораторське мистецтво
7. Порівняльне правознавство
8. Історія правових і політичних вчень
9. Юридична конфліктологія
10. Філософія права
11.Наукові основи правотворчості та юридичної техніки
12. Методологія прикладних досліджень в сфері права
13.Правознавство
14.Основи права
15. Fundamentals of Roman Private Law
16.History of State and Law of Foreign countries
17.History of State and Law of Ukraine
18.Juridical Deontology
19.Theory State and Law
20. Law Science
21.Fundamentals of law
22. Philosophy of Law
23. Ораторське мистецтво (Англомовний проект)
24. History of Juridical and Political doctrine
25. Comparative law

List of scientific works of lecturers of the Department of Theory and History of State and Law (download the list)

Research group of the Theory and History of State

The students’ studygroup "Lawyer" of the department is supervised by Candidate of Law, Associate Professor Pylhun N.V. This group carries out research work on current problems of state and law creation. The results of this work are tested in the form of thesis and reports.