Research supported by OSCE Projects Coordinator in Ukraine
07 december 2021
Experts of the Center have conducted a number of research projects supported by the OSCE Projects Coordinator in Ukraine. This research has resulted in two textbooks.
«General Theory of Law»
The text preparation was supervised by Professor M. Koziubra in 2011-2016. This textbook includes significantly different approaches to understanding law, its meaning, role and place within the system of social regulators. The approach is based on OSCE developed standard of legal education. The standard is based on correlation of professional skills and knowledge Ukrainian law students possess with the needs of legal profession. The textbook, unlike similar textbooks in the field includes the chapter on the rule of law. This important and hardly comprehensible concept is being addressed in full detail with all its components the authors viewed as relevant to focus on.
«Constitutional Law»
The text preparation was supervised by Professor M. Koziubra in 2017-2021. The textbook has brought a new original approach to teaching constitutional law. The innovative parts include the approaches to the structure and modes of describing constitutional institutes, methodology of presenting material, balance between theory and practice, correlation of foreign experience, international standards and Ukrainian specifics, as well as other issues. This approach is described by the authors in great detail and is aimed at inserting the understanding of constitutional law universality of its institutes, concepts and terms which only set special national “colors” but are firmly based on universal elements of constitutionalism into Ukrainian legal discourse.
Analysis of Court Practice Regarding the Protection of People Residing on the Territories of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts temporarily out of Ukrainian Control
In September – December 2017 within this research project, the experts of the Center have conducted a thorough analysis of court practice regarding the protection of people residing on territories of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts temporarily out of Ukrainian control. The research covered more than 500 court decisions (publicly available through the Unified State Register of Court Decisions). The research resulted in recommendations presented on the training for judges in Kramatorsk in December 2017.