Head of the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law.
Doctor of legal sciences, professor, excellent student of formation of Ukraine, academician of Academy of sciences of higher education of Ukraine, honoured professor of Zaporozhia state university, member of Union of lawyers of Ukraine.
Professor defended Candidate's dissertation for speciality 12.00.02 on the theme "Prophylaxis of administrative offences by the public points of law enforcement" in 1984. Doctor's dissertation is the "Delikt phenomenon in the administrative law of Ukraine" for speciality 12.00.07 – in 2005 year. Got the scientific rank of "professor" in 2002 year. From the year 2011 heads the department of constitutional and administrative right. V. K. Kolpakov is the author and coauthor of over 200 scientific and educational and methodical labours which got confession of specialists and repeatedly - rewards, which consisted of 10 textbooks, 16 monographs, 14 train aids and 12 lectures. He successfully carries out scientific guidance dissertation researches of administrative and legal problems for many years, prepared over 30 candidates of legal sciences. Professor is the individual author of the first in the newest history of the Ukrainian state of textbook, which survived three editions (1999, 2000, 2001) and many years used as base in all educational establishments of Ukraine, which carried out the preparation of specialists of legal type. The textbook “Administrative law of Ukraine” in which first in legal science is considered the subject of administrative law from positions of public management was published in 2003. In 2004 and 2007 published two volumes of the first academic course of an administrative law, recommended by the Scientific advice of the Institute of state and right by the name of V.M. Koreckogo of NAN of Ukraine. V.K. Kolpakov individually prepared sixteen subsections of this edition. In the labours of V. K. Kolpakov he first grounded the existence of new branch institution in the administrative law sphere — administrative and delikt law and he is the founder of the proper scientific school. By important achievement of researches which carried out V.K. Kolpakov, there is a decision of scientific problem in relation to correlation of public danger and public harmfulness in the aggregate of signs of administrative misconduct. V. K. Kolpakov was first from research workers who came to the conclusion about the structuralness of the article of administrative law, outlined its constituents and proved that their aggregate was the system. Professor set that the system factors in an administrative law come forward actually new for this legal industry categories: a) public administration; b) public administrativeness; c) relations of administrative obligations. Relations of administrative obligations in general are a short story in right. For the considerable personal contribution to development of legal science, preparation of highly skilled specialists, high professionalism, good faith to implementation of official duties recipient of an award Deed of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.