Department of Labour, Land and Commercial Law

General Information

The Department of Labour, Land and Commercial Law is one of the basic departments of the Faculty of Law, responsible for delivering the educational programmes "Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Law", "Master of Law", "Bachelor of Law", "Bachelor of International Law" and "Bachelor of Social Security".

HISTORY OF ESTABLISHMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
On 29 May 2007, with a view to carrying out educational and methodological activities in related academic disciplines and conducting research and scientific-technical work in a specific field, the Academic Council of Khmelnytskyi University of Management and Law decided to establish the Department of Land, Environmental and Commercial Law. Subsequently, the department was assigned responsibility for teaching the subject "Labour Law of Ukraine", and on the basis of the Academic Council's decision of 26 October 2009 it received its current name – the Department of Labour, Land and Commercial Law.
The department was founded by renowned scholars of the Kyiv and Lviv schools of law: Volodymyr ANDREITSEV, Doctor of Law, Professor, Academician of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine; Volodymyr NOSIK, Doctor of Law, Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine; Mariia KRASNOVA, Doctor of Law, Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine; Viktoriia REZNIKOVA, Doctor of Law, Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine; Candidate of Law, Associate Professor Volodymyr FEDOROVYCH; Candidate of Law, Associate Professor Tetiana KOVALCHUK; Honoured Lawyer of Ukraine, Associate Professor Stanislav DOMBROVSKYI, and other academics who have taught the department's disciplines at various times.
Since its establishment, by decision of the Academic Council, the department has been headed by a graduate of the University (1999), Doctor of Law, Professor Ivan KOSTIASHKIN. Currently, the department employs 10 lecturers, including 1 Doctor of Sciences and 8 Candidates of Sciences, who ensure a high methodological and academic standard of teaching of the department's courses.