4 Tryokhsviatitelska St., 01001, Kyiv, Ukraine

Phone: (044) 278 5155; 278-8127; fax: (044) 278 5474;
e-mail: jus@ukrpack.net;

The Institute does research into:

– issues of state formation and lawmaking in Ukraine: theory, history, practice;

– legal issues of democratization of social relationships, formation of civil society and establishment and implementation of human rights and freedoms;

– theoretical and practical issues of developing the law system in Ukraine;

– theoretical and practical issues of implementing the Constitution and legislation of Ukraine;

– Ukraine within the system of present-day international law order and European integration: theory and practice;

– issues of encyclopedic juridical studies, philosophy and sociology of law.

The Institute has the following academic schools:

– the school of environmental law (headed by NAS academician Yu. S. Shemshuchenko);

– the school of agrarian law (headed by NAS corresponding member V. I. Semchyk);

– the school of constitutional law (headed by NAS corresponding member V. F. Pogorilko);

– the school of administrative law (headed by a corresponding member of the Academy of Juridical Sciences of Ukraine V. B. Averyanov).

With a view to facilitating the process of informing the Ukrainian society, the Institute started to implement a project towards systematizing and generalizing information legislation of Ukraine and other states (CIS, Europe and Asia) through the publication of a multi-volume collection of information legislations, commentaries and fundamental monographs on those issues (the project is scheduled for 2005-2010).