In the September of 2022, Veronika Oleshchenko, Associate professor of the Department of Theory and History of the State and Law of the Faculty of Law, held a career orientation event on the topic "The level of legal culture today is our strong future tomorrow" for senior students of the Sofiivsko-Borshchagiv Lyceum.
V. Oleshchenko, at the beginning of the event, notice that “Society is a large and complex system and every citizen is a component of this system. Each person is a small part of something big. And when the awareness of this comes to a person, there is a sense of consciousness of one's responsibility to the entire nation. Considering the modern challenges and threats to our society, which are caused by the war in Ukraine, an important issue for building a strong future of the state in the formation of the legal culture of the youth”.
With the aim of in-depth awareness of the students' civic position, the lecturer highlighted and characterized in detail each type of social norms that regulate social relations: norms of custom, norms of morality, corporate norms, religious norms. Special attention was paid to the norms of law as a special type of social norms, which have an universally binding nature, and established and sanctioned by the state and are provided by means of state coercion.
In order to raise the level of legal awareness of high school students, V. Oleshchenko also held an informative talk about human rights, their definition and the limits of human rights in relation to other persons.
At the end of the meeting, the lecturer summarized the place and role of law in everyday life. The high school students noted that "Even a person does not choose law in the context of their professional field of future activity, knowledge of law is mandatory for improving the legal culture of a citizen as a component of society for the development of a rule of law state,"