On February 23, 2021, on the occasion of the anniversary of the birth of Volodymyr Koretsky, the Department of Criminal Law and Procedure of the Faculty of Law of NAU organized a meeting of law students with a senior researcher at the Institute of State and Law. V.M. Koretsky NAS of Ukraine, Candidate of Law Konstantin Savchuk, who gave an open lecture on the topic: "The scientific path of the outstanding domestic international lawyer V.M. Koretsky ».
During the lecture dedicated to the 131st anniversary of the birth of V.M. Koretsky, students got acquainted with the formation, development and creative achievements of this outstanding figure. After all, VM Koretsky is a well-known international lawyer, a specialist in the field of private international law and the general history of state and law, an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, who is a role model for everyone who seeks to serve Themis.
During 1949-1951, Volodymyr Koretsky was a member of the UN Commission on International Law. From 1949 he headed the Sector of State and Law of the USSR Academy of Sciences, formed in Kyiv, and after the transformation of the Sector into the Institute of State and Law of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1969, he held the position of director of the Institute until 1974. For a long time the scientist was a member of Soviet delegations to the sessions of the UN General Assembly in 1946, 1947 and 1949 from the USSR; participated in a number of international conferences and UN commissions. From 1957 he became a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, and in 1961-1970 a member (in 1967-1970 vice-president) of the International Court of Justice. Vladimir Mikhailovich was also awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor (1980), awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.
At the end of such a useful and informative lecture, Konstantin Savchuk told future lawyers about the scientific activities of one of the leading institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine - the Institute of State and Law. V.M. Koretsky, whose specialists work fruitfully to solve the problems of state formation, improve legislation, ensure law and order, protect the rights and freedoms of citizens, legal entities, the interests of society and the state.