Address: room 601, 2 Akademichna st., 65009, Odesa
Phone: (048) 719-88-13
E-mail: theory_law@onua.edu.ua
Work schedule of the department:
Mon - Fri 08.30-18.00
Schedule of lecturers' attendance days:
Mon 15.00 - 17.00
Fri 14.00 - 16.00
VOLODYMYR V. ZAVALNYUK
Acting head of the department
Doctor of Law, Professor
Honored lawyer of Ukraine
The Department of General Theory of Law and State provides students with professional general legal competence, mastery of the language of law, mastery of legal thinking and legal interpretation as the basis for professional legal activity. The department is part of the Faculty of Advocacy and employs 25 lecturers, including five doctors of science and 18 candidates of science.
The department delivers the following academic disciplines: general theory of law and state, methodology of jurisprudence, methodology of branch science, interdisciplinary studies in jurisprudence, history of state and law doctrines, canon law, modern legal systems, legal culture, fundamentals of the general theory of law and state, history of political and legal doctrines, history of social, political and legal doctrines, socio-political and legal thought of Ukraine, political and legal thought of Ukraine, legal techniques and technologies, technologies (introduction to the specialty), and modern state.
The department actively participates in the implementation of the president of NU "OLA", Academician S. V. Kivalov’s initiative regarding the delivery of certain legal disciplines in English. The department’s lecturers, namely O.S. Melnychuk, M.Yu. Ryazanov, and S.V. Kovbasiuk provide lectures and seminar classes in the disciplines Legal philosophy and History of political and legal doctrines, and Legal research methodology.
The department’s activity in the scientific and educational space was repeatedly noted at the academic and governmental levels. Professors V.V. Dudchenko and V.V. Zavalnyuk were awarded the honorary title of Honored Lawyer of Ukraine. Members of the department were repeatedly awarded the president of the National University "OLA" Academician S. V. Kivalov’s honorary diplomas.