March, 12, 2015 V International Scientific Conference «Legal science and practice: challenges of time» took place in Law Institute, involving leading national and foreign scientists in the field of law, representatives of legislature, public institutions, heads and experts of legal organizations, judges.
Opening the conference, Iryna Sopilko, director of Law Institute, doctor of law pointed out that the conference is and important event, as its aim is to discuss all the actual issues regarding fundamental changes of legal science, reforms in different areas of lawyers’ practice, without which Ukrainian society will be unable to react quickly to the changes of time, develop and become a part of European civilization. Scientists were welcomed by Yaroslav Kozachok - vice-rector on student issues of NAU, doctor of philological sciences; Oleksandr Kopylenko - the director of the Legislation Institute of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, doctor of law, full professor, corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, academician of the Academy of law sciences of Ukraine. With a great interest participants listened to reports of Vitaliy Kupriy - People’s deputy of Ukraine, deputy of the chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Drafting for law-enforcement activity; Ibrahim Kuliev – head of the department of National Aviation Academy of Azerbaijan, doctor of law, full professor; Iryna Suslova - People’s deputy of Ukraine, head of the subcommittee on gender equality and non-discrimination of the Parliamentary Committee on human rights, national minorities and international relations; Andriy Hryniak - scientific secretary of the Research Institute of IFR named after F.G. Burchak NALS Ukraine, doctor of law, senior researcher; Mykhailo Smokovych – judge, deputy chairman of the High Administrative Court of Ukraine, secretary of the Plenum of the High Administrative Court of Ukraine, PhD; Viktor Kovalskyi - the president of the publishing concern «Yurinkom Inter», chief editor of “Legal gazette”, doctor of law, professor; Oleksandr Kostenko – the head of the department of criminal law, criminology and judicature problems of V. M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, academician of the Academy of law sciences of Ukraine, doctor of law, professor; Serhiy Mosondz - vice-rector on educational and scientific-research work of University of modern knowledge, doctor of law, associate professor; Olena Riabchenko – head of the department of management, administrative law, process and administrative activity of National State Tax Service University of Ukraine, doctor of law, full professor; Serhiy Vavzhenchuk - professor at the department of labour law and social security law of Taras Schevchenko National university of Kiev, doctor of law, assistant professor; Ihor Kopotun - vice-rector on educational work of the SZRU Institute, doctor of law, senior researcher; Mykhailo Chaplyha - representative of the Commissioner for Public Relations and Informational Technologies; Andriy Zabolotnyi - director of Legal Department of National Agency of Ukraine on Civil Service; Olena Vlasenko - deputy director of the department of bankruptcy, Administration of Justice As a result of reports of 352 participants of the conference from 23 regions of Ukraine and 19 foreign countries, 68 educational institutions and 42 organizations, public associations, a conclusion was made that a development of international cooperation is an effective factor of a successful realization of a future strategic scientific projects, and further it will provide an improvement of national legislation, speed up the process of its harmonization with international law.