About

Penal Disciplines and International Criminal Law Department

The department is a structural unit of the Faculty of European Law and Legal Science of the State Higher Educational Establishment “Uzhhorod National University”.

The department establishment is determined by the necessity of formation and training of qualified specialists in the sphere of Penal Disciplines and International Criminal Law who would be able to use the acquired theoretical and practical knowledge in further professional activity.

The Penalty Disciplines and International Criminal Law Department has graduates and its activity is regulated by the duly elaborated and approved Regulations on the graduate department of the Faculty of European Law and Legal Science of UzhNU. The lecturers of the department provide teaching of 28 educational disciplines, supervision of pedagogical and educational probation, guidance of Bachelor, Specialist and Master theses.

The principal mission of the department is the realization of educational activity aimed at training the specialists of appropriate educational qualification levels in accordance with the higher education standards as well as the formation of creative personality and professionalism in research. The work of the department is designed to improve the educational process and increase the quality of alumnus training.

The Penal Disciplines and International Criminal Law Department performs scientific supervision over the preparation of Ph.D theses of specialty 12.00.08 “Criminal Law and Criminology; Criminal Executive Law”. The topics of Ph.D theses are selected based on the needs of legislative and practical activity, they are adjusted according to the demands of research actuality and novelty and the number of postgraduates is annually increasing.

There is a scientific club led by A.V. Andrushko (Ph.D) and Y.V. Stupnyk (Ph.D) operating at the department.

The department holds international ties, its lecturers take part in international and All-Ukrainian scientific and practical conferences. The scientific achievements of the department teaching staff are published in foreign scientific issues. The department has strong ties with other departments of Law schools of Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland, Moldova and other foreign countries.

The planned scientific methodical work is fulfilled at Penal Disciplines and International Criminal Law Department and the qualitative characteristics of its scientific pedagogical staff meet the criteria and demands of the training of specialists of the declared specialty and the educational qualification levels of the training of Bachelors, Specialists, and Masters.

There is an increased demand among the employers for specialists with deep knowledge about the European legal system. Therefore, the thorough study of the European law and practice of its application without any harm for obtaining basic legal knowledge is a perspective direction which will enable students, specializing at the department, to be worthy rivals in the labour market both in Ukraine and abroad.