The College of Law

Dean: Vitalii Kovalchuk, Candidate of political science.
Tel. 8 (03654)23930

Associate Dean: Oleh Fedorchuk, Candidate of law, lecturer.
Tel. 8 (03654)23930

Assistants: Tetiana Khomych
Natalia Marchuk
Tetiana Roschuk
Kateryna Matiaschuk
Tel. 8 (03654)23930

The future College of Law was introduced in Ostroh Academy National University in 1996 and was one of the Departments of the College of the Humanities. From 1 January 1999 it was separated off and the independent College of Law was established.

To acquire practical skills, all students, except freshmen, take internships at the factories, courts, police and universities. The students of the College of Law have great possibilities to implement their theoretical knowledge into practice during the practical sessions and business games, including those held at the courts and police. Also students actively take part in the national and international conferences.

The students of the College of Law founded the legal consulting office Pro Bono (For the sake of good). Its main aim is to give a possibility to practice jurisprudence, to give legal aid to people (including advisory service). Students conduct different trainings for the secondary school students in Ostroh and the district of Ostroh.

The College always learns and implements new technologies and modern teaching methods. This is possible thanks to the international collaboration, business partners, project elaboration and participation in grants, in international teaching/learning programmes, internships in the universities of Europe, Canada and the USA. The students of the College always take part in international exchange programs, e.g. Ukraine-Canada-Poland, NetCorps, Canada-Ukraine Parliament Programme and others. Since 2001, the College has been hosting Annual National Conference The Problems of State Establishment and Protection of Human Rights in Ukraine. Six conferences have been held wthin the last few years. The last was on 28-29 April 2005.

The students internship in Verkhovna Rada (the Parliament of Ukraine), Constitutional and Superior Economic Courts of Ukraine, State Security Service of Ukraine, police, custom and taxation service, Prosecutor General's Office, local administrative bodies, offices of lawyers and notaries, legal services of national and private owned enterprises and organizations.

Scholars from Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, Ivan Franko Lviv National University, Yaroslav Mudryi National Academy of Law (Kharkiv), Northern Illinois, Michigan, Krakow, and Bialystok universities do lectures at the College.

The students of the College may use computer labs with the access to Liga-Law (the laws database system), the Centre of Criminalistics, the Court Room, and the Criminalistics Laboratory.

The Department of Constitutional Law. Founded in March 2005.

The Chair of Department – Olexandr Skrypniuk, PhD in law, professor. Tel. 8(03654)23930

Teaching staff of the department:

  1. Olexandr Skrypniuk – PhD in law, professor.
  2. Vitalij Kovalchyk – Candidate of political sciences, lecturer.
  3. Petro Kulakovskyi – Candidate of historical sciences, lecturer.
  4. Olena Kurhanska – senior lecturer.
  5. Valentyna Skrypniuk – Candidate of law, lecturer.
  6. Ihor Senchak – teather.

The following subjects are taught at the department:

  • The Theory of State and Law;
  • The Philosophy of Law;
  • The National Law of Foreign Countries;
  • The History of State and Law of Ukraine;
  • The History of State and Law of the Foreign Countries;
  • The History of Political and Legal studies;
  • The Fundamentals of Roman Law;
  • Constitutional Law of Ukraine;
  • Human Rights and Their Protection;
  • Computer Legal Systems;
  • The Fundamentals of Juridical Practice;
  • Legal Deontology;
  • Administrative Law and the Process;
  • State Building and Local Government;
  • Administrative Responsibility.

During the last few years the lecturers of the department have prepared the following publications:
  1. Teaching manual for the course of Constitutional Law of Ukraine. Compiler: V.B.Kovalchuk;
  2. V.M. Hryschuk The outline of the history of local governing in Ukraine. Monograph. - Ostroh, 2003. – 200 p.
  3. R.S. Martyniuk Political Studies: lectures. – Ostroh, 2003. – 177 p.
  4. Collected Scientific Articles. Law Series. Pub. IV. – Ostroh, 2003. – 278 p.
  5. P.M. Kulakovskyi Tests and materials for the course of The History of State and Law of Foreign Countries. – Ostroh, 2004. – 54 p.;
  6. Collected Scientific Articles. Law Series. Pub. V. – Ostroh, 2004. – 385 p.
  7. Collected Scientific Articles. Law Series. Pub. VI. – Ostroh, 2005. – 421 p.

Monographs by the Candidate of history, lecturer at the Department of Constitutional Law, P.M. Kulakovskyi Chernihovo-Siverschyna as a part of Rich Pospolyta (1618-1648).

The Department of Justice and Criminal Law. Founded on 8 April 2005.

The Chair of Department – Vasyl Popeliushko, PhD in law, lecturer.

Tel. 8(03654)23930 Teaching staff of the department:
  1. Vasyl Popeliushko – PhD in law, lecturer.
  2. Mykhailo Kolos – PhD in law, lecturer.
  3. Serhii Shtohun – PhD in law, lecturer.
  4. Olexandr Melnychenko – senior lecturer.
  5. Lesia Strelbitska – lecturer.
  6. Oleh Herasymchuk – lecturer.
  7. Serhii Honhalo– lecturer.
  8. Tetiana Khomych – tutor.

The following courses are taught at the department:

  • Criminal Law;
  • Property Crime;
  • Personal Crime;
  • Current Problems of Criminal Law;
  • Criminal Process;
  • Proof Theory;
  • Current Problems of Criminal Process;
  • Executive Criminal Law;
  • Public Prosecutor Supervision;
  • Criminalistics;
  • Forensic Medicine and Psychiatry;
  • Crime Investigation Methods;
  • Criminology;
  • Problems of Offence Precautions;
  • International Public Law;
  • Fundamentals of Legal Statistics;
  • Legal institutions and law machinery;
  • The Profession of Barrister in Ukraine;
  • Criminal Procedure Documentation;
  • European Convention of Human Rights: Ukrainian practice of its application.

During the last few years the lecturers of the department have prepared the following publications:
  1. Teaching recommendations for the course of Criminalistics / compiler: L.Ya. Strelbitska– Ostroh, 2000. – 40 p.
  2. V.O. Popeliushko Object of substantiation in the criminal process (criminal-procedural and criminal-legal aspects). Monogaph. – Ostroh, 2001. – 194 p.
  3. V.O. Popeliushko “Small” legal reform in Ukraine and human rights’ defense. Monograph. – Ostroh, 2003. – 124 p.
  4. V.O. Popeliushko Investigation of crimes in court. Teaching manual. – Ostroh, 2003. – 196 p.
  5. S.H. Shtohun Teaching Judicial Authority in Ukraine. – Ostroh, 2003. – 202 p.
  6. V.O. Popeliushko, L.Ya. Strelbistka Tasks for practical sessions of criminal process. – Ostroh, 2004. – 90 p.

The Court Room, Criminalistics Centre and Laboratory were founded to model the professional activities of the students. There is also a Legal Library at the college.

The Department of Civil Law. Founded on 8 April 2005.

The Chair of Department – Oleh Fedorchuk, Candidate of law, lecturer.

Tel. 8(03654)23930

The following subjects are taught at the college:

  • Civil Law;
  • Civil Process;
  • Family Law;
  • Insurance Law;
  • Current Problems of Civil Law;
  • Curent Problems of Civil Process;
  • International Private Law;
  • Compiling Civil Documents;
  • Financial Law;
  • Bank Law;
  • Fiscal Law;
  • Labour Law;
  • Legal Regulation of Social Service;
  • Domestic Law;
  • Domestic Process;
  • Ecological Law;
  • Land Law;
  • Notaries of Ukraine;
  • Duty Law;
  • Executive Bodies;
  • Copyright Law;
  • Informational Law;
  • Private Enterprise Taxation;
  • The Problems of Rights and Legal Interests of Tax-Payers.

Teaching staff of the department:
  1. Oleh Fedorchuk – Candidate of law, lecturer.
  2. Tetiana Blaschuk – Candidate of law, lecturer.
  3. Ruslan Lidovets – Candidate of law, senior lecturer.
  4. Vasyl Samoliuk – Candidate of law, senior lecturer.
  5. Ihor Volianyk – tutor.
  6. Serhii Ischuk – tutor.
  7. Tetiana Novodeletska – tutor.
  8. Artem Filipiev – tutor.
Besides, famous experts from the universities of Ukraine and practicing lawyers work at the College.

During the last few years the lecturers of the department have prepared the following publications:

  1. O.M Fedorchuk. Teaching manual for the course of Fiscal Law. – Ostroh, 2000. – 215 p.
  2. O.M. Fedorchuk, V.V. Samoliuk Recommendations for writing course and qualification papers, diploma and master’s theses on the legal subjects.
  3. V.V. Samoliuk Teaching manual to the course of Civil Code. General part. – Ostroh, 2004. – 111 p.
  4. T.M. Blaschuk Insurance Law: Teaching manual. – Rivne, 2004. – 153p.
  5. Blaschuk T.M. Property Law: Teaching manual. – Rivne, 2005. – 174p.

There also functions the History of Private Law laboratory which was founded with the help of Kyiv University of Business and Law.
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The year of 2008
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