Academic Council

Academic Council

The Academic Council of the University is a collegial governing body of the University, established with up to 25 members to address the principal matters concerning the University's activities, in accordance with the Regulations approved by the Rector. The Academic Council operates according to an approved work plan. Meetings of the Academic Council are held at least once a month, and its term of office is five years.

The Academic Council of the University:

determines the strategy and long-term development priorities for the University's educational, research and innovation activities;
develops and submits to the Conference of the University Staff a draft of the University's Charter, as well as decisions on amendments and additions thereto;
approves the University's financial plan and annual financial report;
determines the system and approves procedures for internal quality assurance in higher education;
approves, upon the Rector's proposal, decisions on the establishment, reorganisation and liquidation of structural units;
elects, through a competitive selection procedure and secret ballot, deans, heads of departments, professors and associate professors, the Director of the Library and heads of branches;
approves educational programmes and curricula for each level of higher education and field of study;
makes decisions on the organisation of the educational process and determines the duration of study at the respective levels;
approves the main areas of research and innovation activities;
evaluates the research and teaching activities of structural units;
confers the academic titles of Professor, Associate Professor and Senior Researcher and submits the relevant decisions for approval by the Attestation Board of the central executive authority in the field of education and science;
approves regulations and other local regulatory acts whose approval is required by applicable legislation or the University's Charter;
elects, through a competitive selection procedure and secret ballot, academic and teaching staff of university-wide departments and addresses other matters related to the operation of such departments;
considers other matters concerning the University's activities in accordance with the University's Charter.

The Academic Council of the University is headed by a Chairperson, who is elected by secret ballot from among the members of the Academic Council who hold an academic degree or an academic or honorary title, for the term of office of the Academic Council.

The Academic Secretary of the University serves as the Secretary of the Academic Council.

The Academic Council of the University comprises, ex officio, the Rector, Vice-Rectors, Deans of faculties, the Academic Secretary, the Director of the Library, the Chief Accountant, heads of self-governing bodies and elected bodies of the primary trade union organisations of the University's employees, as well as elected representatives of academic and teaching staff (from among heads of departments, professors, Doctors of Philosophy and Doctors of Science), elected representatives of other University employees working at the University on a permanent basis, elected representatives of postgraduate students, doctoral students and trainees, heads of elected bodies of the primary trade union organisations of students and postgraduate students, and heads of student self-government bodies, in accordance with the quotas established by the University's Charter and the Regulations on the Academic Council.

At least 75% of the Academic Council's membership must consist of the University's academic and teaching staff, and at least 10% must be elected representatives of students.

Elections to the Academic Council of the University commence 30 calendar days before the expiry of the term of office of the previous composition of the Academic Council.

The personal composition of the Academic Council and any changes thereto are approved by orders of the Rector.

Members of the Academic Council whose employment relationship with the University has been terminated are removed from the Academic Council, as are University employees dismissed from the position by virtue of which they were members of the Academic Council. Members who have submitted a reasoned written request to the Chairperson of the Academic Council to resign from the Council are also removed from its composition.

Decisions of the Academic Council of the University are implemented by orders of the Rector.

Chair of the Academic Council

OMELCHUK Oleh Mykolaiovych

Doctor of Law, Professor
Honoured Lawyer of Ukraine
Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Higher Education of Ukraine

Profiles in scientific databases:
SCOPUS Author ID: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57216153092
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4057-380X
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PQchG5UAAAAJ
Wikipedia: https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Омельчук_Олег_Миколайович
W&S: https://app.webofknowledge.com/author/record/35558086?lang=ru_RU

Academic title: Professor
Academic degree: Doctor of Law

Awards:

Certificate of Honour of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
Honoured Lawyer of Ukraine
Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Higher Education of Ukraine

Education:
1998 – Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, degree in Law.
In 2002, he defended his Candidate of Law dissertation "Smuggling under the Criminal Law of Ukraine" before the specialised academic council of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. On 16 June 2005, he was awarded the academic title of Associate Professor by the Attestation Board of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
In 2013, he defended his Doctor of Law dissertation "Human Behaviour: A Philosophical and Legal Dimension" before the specialised academic council of Lviv State University of Internal Affairs.

Academic and teaching experience:
1998–2001 – Lecturer, Department of Civil Law and Procedure, Academy of the Border Troops of Ukraine;
2001–2004 – Senior Lecturer, Department of Criminal Law and Procedure, Khmelnytskyi Institute of Regional Management and Law;
2004–2007 – Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Law and Procedure, Khmelnytskyi University of Management and Law;
2007–2009 – Head of the Department of Criminal Law and Procedure;
2009–2014 – Professor, Department of Criminal Law and Procedure;
2014–2015 – Head of the Department of Criminal Law and Procedure (on a voluntary basis);
2015–present – Professor, Department of Criminal Law and Procedure.

He is a member of the University Academic Council, the Methodological Council, the State Examination Commission and the editorial board of "University Scientific Notes", the journal of Khmelnytskyi University of Management and Law.
On 7 October 2011, he was elected President of the International Public Organisation "Eurasian Association of Law Schools and Lawyers".
Since 19 December 2015 – Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Higher Education of Ukraine (No. 8/15).

Honorary title "Honoured Lawyer of Ukraine" (Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 439 of 8 October 2016).
Over the course of his academic career, he has published 120 works, including 89 academic publications (2 monographs; 5 textbooks and teaching manuals, including 5 approved by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine; 53 articles in specialised journals; 18 conference papers) and 21 educational and methodological works.

Research interests: criminal law, philosophy of law.
Courses taught: Criminal Law, Issues of Sentencing.
He supervises postgraduate students and has trained 3 Candidates of Sciences.

Academic Secretary

YAKYMCHUK Svitlana Oleksiivna

Svitlana YAKYMCHUK

Academic degree

Candidate of Law

Position

Professor of the Department of Private Law; Attorney (Certificate No. 475 of 30 June 2010); Academic Secretary

Profiles in research databases

Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3D5pJmMAAAAJ

ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1848-494X

Web of Science https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/35023716

Awards

Letter of Gratitude from the Main Territorial Department of Justice in Khmelnytskyi Oblast (2017);
certificates of Leonid Yuzkov Khmelnytskyi University of Management and Law.

Education

Khmelnytskyi University of Management and Law, Faculty of Law (2006).

Academic and teaching experience

2006–present – Teaching Assistant, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor at the Department of Civil Law and Procedure.
In 2015, she defended her Candidate’s thesis on the topic “Enforcement of Court Decisions as Part of Judicial Proceedings” before the specialised academic council of Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University in speciality 12.00.03 “Civil Law and Civil Procedure; Family Law; Private International Law”.

Research interests

civil law and civil procedure.

Main research publications

1. Yakymchuk S. O. “Effectiveness of the Enforcement of Court Decisions” [Text] / S. O. Yakymchuk // Problems of Legality. – Kharkiv. – 2012. – Issue 120. – pp. 296–305.
2. Yakymchuk S. A. “Legal Force and Enforceability of a Court Decision” [Text] / S. A. Yakymchuk // Problems of Legality. – Kharkiv. – 2012. – Issue 121. – pp. 256–264.
3. Yakymchuk S. O. “The Legal Status of Bodies for the Compulsory Enforcement of Court Decisions and Ways of Reforming Them” / S. O. Yakymchuk // University Scientific Notes // Journal of Khmelnytskyi University of Management and Law. – 2009. – No. 3. – pp. 93–96.
4. Yakymchuk S. O. “The Principle of the Rule of Law and the Accessibility of Civil Justice” / S. O. Yakymchuk // Scientific Bulletin of Lviv State University of Internal Affairs. – 2012. – No. 2 (1). – pp. 180–189.
5. Yakymchuk S. O. “Enforcement of Court Decisions in Civil Cases as a Stage of Judicial Proceedings” / S. O. Yakymchuk // University Scientific Notes // Journal of Khmelnytskyi University of Management and Law. – 2009. – No. 4. – pp. 81–84.
6. Yakymchuk S. O. “Implementation of the Principle of the Rule of Law in the Civil Procedural Legislation of Ukraine through the Prism of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights” / S. O. Yakymchuk // University Scientific Notes // Journal of Khmelnytskyi University of Management and Law. – 2012. – No. 1. – pp. 355–366.
7. Yakymchuk S. A. “Supervision of the Enforcement of Court Decisions and the Effectiveness of Protecting the Rights of the Judgment Creditor in Enforcement Proceedings” / S. A. Yakymchuk // Review of Court Decisions in the Civil Procedure of Ukraine and Russia: collection of abstracts of research papers and reports of the round table of the Department of Civil Procedure of the Yaroslav Mudryi National University “Law Academy of Ukraine” and the Faculty of Law of M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Kharkiv, 19 March 2013. – Kharkiv, 2013. – pp. 106–108.
8. Yakymchuk S. A. “Legal Force and Enforceability of a Court Decision” / S. A. Yakymchuk // Problems of Legality: collection of research papers / Yaroslav Mudryi National University “Law Academy of Ukraine”. – Kharkiv, 2013. – Issue 121. – pp. 257–264.