DEPARTMENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW OF THE LAW INSTITUTE

Disciplines

HISTORY OF THE STATE AND LAW

The goal of the academic discipline is to achieve modern, fundamental thinking and a system of special knowledge in the field of state and legal history, the origin, development, and functioning of statehood and law from ancient times to the present day in the world, as well as in the Ukrainian people in the most diverse aspects of their interaction, promoting the formation of legal culture and legal awareness of future legal professionals.

After successful study of the academic discipline, the student of higher education will be able to:

search for the necessary material with the help of information and communication technologies;

preserve and multiply moral, cultural, and scientific values and achievements of society based on understanding the history and patterns of development of law, its place in the general system of knowledge about nature and society, and in the development of culture, technology and technology;

Be aware of the retrospective formation of legal and state institutions.

Syllabus https://pg.cabinet.sumdu.edu.ua/report/syllabus/1327402

Regulation https://pg.cabinet.sumdu.edu.ua/report/reglament/1327402

 

INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIALITY

The educational discipline aims to form students’ knowledge systems about the actual content of legal activity and the main types of legal specialties and to achieve awareness of a lawyer’s professional duties.

After successful study of the academic discipline, the student of higher education will be able to:

acquire knowledge about legal activity, its main characteristics, and types;

develop public speaking skills;

acquire basic knowledge about legal psychology and its role in legal action;

To acquire the skills of collecting information, processing statistical data, and using computer programs.

Syllabus https://pg.cabinet.sumdu.edu.ua/report/syllabus/1177189

Regulation https://pg.cabinet.sumdu.edu.ua/report/reglament/1177189

 

POLITICAL SCIENCE

The course aims to form students a complex idea of statehood as a complex social, political, and legal system, which is implemented in various forms and mediations in the design of “government-society-personality” interaction.

After successful study of the academic discipline, the student of higher education will be able to:

To interpret the main theories and concepts of political science, to critically consider the positive and negative aspects of the activity of various types of state institutions, styles and forms of the state and their elements, sources of law;

solve complex and unpredictable tasks and problems in the field of modern political science, which involves, among other things, the collection and interpretation of individual sources of constitutional and administrative law, basic concepts, theories, and views;

to clearly and unambiguously convey conclusions, knowledge, explanations, ideas, problems, and solutions that justify them to specialists and non-specialists in the field of political science;

to be aware of the retrospective of the formation of state institutions RN5 To apply knowledge of the basics of the theory and philosophy of the state and law.

Syllabus https://pg.cabinet.sumdu.edu.ua/report/syllabus/1170058

Regulation https://pg.cabinet.sumdu.edu.ua/report/reglament/1170058

 

ETHICS OF A LAWYER

The purpose of the discipline “Ethics of a lawyer” is to attract students to fundamental professional moral values, to transform them into stable beliefs and motives of behavior, to awaken a sense of responsibility for self-improvement, to form the ability to navigate in the world of human relations from the standpoint of humanism.

After successful study of the academic discipline, the student of higher education will be able to:

to know the basic principles of legal ethics;

to understand the specifics of modern requirements for a lawyer, his primary moral duty;

to be able to correlate legal and ethical parameters in practical activities.

Syllabus: https://pg.cabinet.sumdu.edu.ua/report/syllabus/1156047

Regulation: https://pg.cabinet.sumdu.edu.ua/report/reglament/1156047

 

A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT

The academic discipline aims to achieve modern, constructive, fundamental thinking and a system of special knowledge in the constitutional law of Ukraine and the ability to use them in practical legal activity.

After successful study of the academic discipline, the student of higher education will be able to:

to use the sources of constitutional law, to be aware of modern features of constitutions, models of constitutional justice, elements of the constitutional and legal status of the individual, institutions of direct people’s power, modern forms of the state, constitutional models of legislative and executive management, local self-government, party systems, fundamentals of constitutional law of Ukraine and foreign countries;

Search, systematize, process, and use information about constitutional construction in Ukraine and abroad; use methods of studying and improving legislation; acquire the skills of using the results of problem-solving, principles, and doctrines of national law, as well as the content of legal institutes on constitutional law;

to prepare information reviews and comparative tables according to the legislation of foreign countries to improve the constitutional and legal regulation in Ukraine;

to understand the retrospective of the formation of constitutional and legal, and state institutions, peculiarities of implementing and applying the norms of constitutional material and procedural law.

Specialty 081 “Law”

Syllabus: https://pg.cabinet.sumdu.edu.ua/report/syllabus/1170167

Regulation: https://pg.cabinet.sumdu.edu.ua/report/reglament/1170167

Specialty “International Law”

Syllabus: https://pg.cabinet.sumdu.edu.ua/report/syllabus/1170668

Regulations: https://pg.cabinet.sumdu.edu.ua/report/reglament/1170668

 

POLITICAL SCIENCE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

The goal of the academic discipline is for students to achieve modern constructive, fundamental thinking and a system of special knowledge in the field of political science of international relations.

After successful study of the academic discipline, the student of higher education will be able to:

analyze social and political processes taking place at the international level;

justify one’s own conclusions regarding a specific situation or process at the international level;

predict the social and political consequences of actions of an international legal nature;

classify socio-political phenomena and processes of the international level, discuss and make reasonable conclusions about geopolitical changes.

Specialty “International Law”

Syllabus: https://pg.cabinet.sumdu.edu.ua/report/syllabus/1169745

Regulations: https://pg.cabinet.sumdu.edu.ua/report/reglament/1169745

 

HUMAN RIGHTS AND LEGAL FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL WORK WITH CONTENT MODULE: LEGAL STUDIES

The goal of the academic discipline is for students to achieve modern constructive thinking and a system of knowledge in the field of human rights, ensuring their implementation, protection and protection in case of violation, regulatory and legal support of social work, as well as the ability to apply the acquired knowledge in future professional activities.

After successful study of the academic discipline, the student of higher education will be able to:

to operate with basic legal concepts and categories, to demonstrate the ability to realize one’s rights and duties as a member of society, to be aware of the values of civil society and the need for its sustainable development;

formulate signs, identify structural elements, classification grounds for species characteristics of legal concepts and categories;

justify the considered state-legal phenomena from the standpoint of current legislation, draw conclusions based on the results of own research and analysis of literary sources;

to give an assessment of the current normative-legal acts, which are the sources of the field of constitutional law in terms of implementation, protection and protection of human rights, to analyze the current normative-legal basis of social work and social security;

to make practical decisions in the real conditions of professional activity, which are basically theoretical in nature, to justify one’s own position.

Specialty 231 Social work

Syllabus: https://pg.cabinet.sumdu.edu.ua/report/syllabus/1268072

Regulation: https://pg.cabinet.sumdu.edu.ua/report/reglament/1268072

 

SCIENCE OF LAW

The goal of the educational discipline is for students to achieve modern constructive thinking and a system of knowledge from the complex legal discipline, understanding of its norms, institutions and their organic connections with individual branches of the national law of Ukraine, as well as the ability to apply them in future professional activities.

After successful study of the academic discipline, the student of higher education will be able to:

operate with basic legal concepts and categories;

to formulate signs, to distinguish structural elements, classification grounds for species characteristics of legal concepts and categories;

justify the considered state-legal phenomena from the standpoint of current legislation, draw conclusions based on the results of own research and analysis of literary sources;

to give an assessment of the current regulatory and legal acts, to identify conflicts in legal regulation;

to make practical decisions in real conditions of professional activity, which are theoretical in nature.

Specialty 053 Psychology

Syllabus: https://pg.cabinet.sumdu.edu.ua/report/syllabus/1307946

Regulations: https://pg.cabinet.sumdu.edu.ua/report/reglament/1307946

 

THEORY OF THE STATE AND LAW

The goal of the educational discipline is to achieve by students modern, constructive, fundamental thinking and a system of special knowledge in the field of the theory of the state and law and the ability to use them in practical legal activity.

After successful study of the academic discipline, the student of higher education will be able to:

to be aware of the prerequisites for the emergence and development of the state and law, their types, forms and mechanisms of functioning, formation and development of state-legal institutions, historical forms of socio-political relations, basic concepts and terms of the theory of the state and law;

to analyze the processes of state formation by studying their specific historical forms; to reveal the regularities of the development of modern law, based on the understanding of the genesis of its main branches in the past; to understand the mechanism of state government activity; interpret normative acts and operate them; to be aware of the impact of legal knowledge on the formation of a person’s worldview;

apply knowledge of the basics of the theory and philosophy of law, understand the structure of the legal profession and its role in society; analyze legal problems, form and justify legal positions.

Syllabus: https://pg.cabinet.sumdu.edu.ua/report/syllabus/718146

Regulation: https://pg.cabinet.sumdu.edu.ua/report/reglament/718146

 

MODERN PROBLEMS OF STATE-BUILDING PROCESSES AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

The purpose of the course is to provide students with theoretical knowledge about the problems of the formation and functioning of state institutions, the history of their formation and development, as well as the methods of their constitutional and legal regulation.

After successful study of the academic discipline, the student of higher education will be able to:

apply the principles of the rule of law to solve complex constitutional and legal problems and problems, including in situations of legal uncertainty;

evaluate the interaction of international law and international legal systems with the legal system of Ukraine;

use modern legal doctrines and principles in law-making and in the process of applying institutions of public law;

apply an interdisciplinary approach in the assessment of state institutions, the state and statehood;

convey information, ideas and the content of the problems of the state and statehood to experts and non-specialists in the field of law, as well as the nature of their optimal solutions with proper reasoning.

Syllabus: https://pg.cabinet.sumdu.edu.ua/report/syllabus/1170551

Regulation: https://pg.cabinet.sumdu.edu.ua/report/reglament/1170551