Professional nationwide scientific, practical and methodological legal publication

“Slovo of the National School of Judges of Ukraine” 

Founder and publisher – National School of Judges of Ukraine (EDRPOU 37451388).

The journal was founded on 3 May 2012.

The journal is issued on a quarterly basis.

The language of publication is Ukrainian.

Scientific publication cluster ‘Law’, field of knowledge and specialisation ‘D8 Law’, ‘D9 International Law’.

Certificate of state registration of a print media outlet No. 19048-7838P dated 3 May 2012.

Registration of an entity in the field of print media: Decision of the National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting No. 25 of 31 October 2023. Media identifier – R30-01938.

By Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine dated 29 September 2014 No. 1081, the national scientific-practical and scientific-methodological legal publication “Slovo of the National School of Judges of Ukraine” was included in the List of scientific professional publications of Ukraine in which the results of dissertations for the degrees of Doctor and Candidate of Sciences may be published.

In 2020, the journal confirmed its professional standing and was awarded category “B” in accordance with Order No. 627 of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine dated 14 May 2020.

Contact information:

Address: st. Zhylyanska, 120 a, Kyiv, Ukraine, 01032

Phone: +38 044 597 09 28

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The latest issue of the journal “Slovo of the National School of Judges of Ukraine” has been published 

The first issue of the nationwide professional legal journal "Slovo of the National School of Judges of Ukraine" (No. 1 (54), 2026) has been published.

The lead article of this issue is a publication co-authored by Tetiana BABKOVA, Associate Professor at the Department of International and European Law of the Faculty of Law at the Western Ukrainian National University, retired Judge, and Candidate of Legal Sciences, and Iryna TESLENKO, Judge of the Solomyanskyi District Court of Kyiv and Doctor of Philosophy in Law titled ‘Dependent Independence of the Judicial System: Practical Determinants and Ways to Overcome Them’, which is focused on the issue of finding effective mechanisms to ensure the independence of the judicial system. The article provides an analysis of the effectiveness of the mechanisms introduced to ensure the independence of the judiciary and some vulnerable aspects of this mechanism, in particular regarding the distribution of the workload among judges across Ukraine, the existence of covert forms of influence on judges through the use of disciplinary complaints and reports to law enforcement agencies, and the dissemination of negative information about judges via the media.

This issue features academic articles under the following sections: ‘Organisation of Judicial Proceedings’ – Ian BERNAZIUK, ‘Evolution of the principles of administrative proceedings: past, present, and future’; “Theory of State and Law” – Nataliia PARKHOMENKO “The Mechanism of the State and Its Functions under Martial Law: Features of Organisation and Implementation”, Vitalii PYSMENNYI “Preventing Corruption Risks in the Judiciary through the Lens of Biblical Morality and Contemporary Ethical Standards”, Serhii SUNIEHIN “Ensuring and protecting human rights as a function of the state under martial law: essential and instrumental aspects”, Oleksandr BABARYTSKYI, Serhii IVASHCHENKO “Reforming the system of military governance in Ukraine: the role of military administrations”; “International Law” – Viktor BAZOV, Yasin DERE “International Legal Principles of the Formation of the Judicial Corps of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine”;  ‘Administrative Law’ – Kateryna KATERYNCHUK ‘Algorithm of Actions in Case of a Person Missing Under Special Circumstances: Problematic Issues’; ‘Commercial Procedural Law’ – Valeriia RADZYVILYUK, Petro DUBOVSKYI ‘Сommencement of bankruptcy proceedings upon an application by an connected person: problems of law enforcement’, Artem DANILOV ‘Procedural Passivity in Insolvency Proceedings: A Judicial Assessment Model under Regulatory Uncertainty’ ; “Criminal Law” – Vitalii KUZNETSOV “Criminal law countermeasures against the circulation of pornography: current legislative challenges”, Mariia KRASII “Constitutional Court of Ukraine and foreign criminal-legal policy: from isolationism to integration (on the example of key decisions)” , Roman CHAIKA “Criminal liability for the disclosure of adoption secrecy: doctrinal issues and directions for reform”; “Criminal Procedure Law” – Serhiy BEREZHNYI “Plea agreements in corruption criminal offences: theoretical and practical aspects”; “Criminal Enforcement Law” – Serhii TSARIUK, Liudmyla OLEFIR “Medical care in penal institutions: an analysis of the problem (taking into account the case law of the ECtHR)”.

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Authors are welcome to publish their research articles in our professional journal. Publication is free of charge.

The guidelines for research articles can be found here.

We invite you to publish a scientific article in the professional magazine "Slovo  of NSJU"

The National School of Judges of Ukraine invites you to publish an article in the professional national professional scientific and practical legal magazine “Slovo of the National School of Judges of Ukraine” (according to the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine № 1081 dated September 29, 2014, the journal is included in the List of scientific professional editions of Ukraine, in which the results of the dissertation works for obtaining the scientific degrees of doctor and candidate of sciences can be published).

The publication of the articles is free of charge. Also free of charge the authorial copy of edition is sent to an author.

The target audience of magazine are candidates on justiceship, judge, workers of organs of the system of justice, office of public prosecutor, advocacies, practicing lawyers, teachers and students of faculties of law of higher educational establishments and others like that.

The articles on an actual theme, containing the results of  deep scientific research of modern problems of development of legal science, legislation and practice are accepted by the Editorial Board and considered for review before publication in magazine.

The article is checked by the editorial board of the publication for the author's compliance with the formal requirements for the design of the scientific article, and then submitted to the Editorial Board of the journal for consideration of its publication.

The requirements for scientific articles can be found here.

Executive Secretary of the Editorial Board: Oksana Shamrai, Candidate of Juridicial Sciences

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Magazine "The Slovo of the National School of Judges of Ukraine"
confirmed its  professionalism and received category "B"
Dear colleagues and authors!

We are glad to inform you that another evidence of compliance of the professional scientific and practical legal magazine "The Slovo of the National School of Judges of Ukraine" with high professional requirements was that it was successfully re-registered and in accordance with the Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine from 14.05.2020 № 627 included in the List of scientific professional publications of Ukraine (category “B”).

We truly thank  for the members of the editorial board of the magazine "The Slovo of the National School of Judges of Ukraine", as well as for our authors! 

Reference:

The magazine "The Slovo of the National School of Judges of Ukraine" became a professional in 2014. Thus, by the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine dated September 29, 2014 № 1081 professional scientific and practical legal magazine "The Slovo of the National School of Judges of Ukraine" is included in the List of scientific professional publications of Ukraine, which can publish dissertations degrees of doctor and candidate of sciences.