Riga Nordic University
Kyiv University of Law
of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Сollective monograph
CURRENT ISSUES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF UKRAINIAN LEGAL EDUCATION AND SCIENCE IN THE PRESENT DAY AND POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION
On the 30th anniversary of the founding
of the Kyiv University of Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Deadline – October 30, 2025
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Dear colleagues! We invite you to participate in the activities of the authors’ team in order to elaborate a collective monograph “Current issues in the development of Ukrainian legal education and science in the present day and post-war reconstruction”.
Scientists, academic staff and postgraduate students interested in the relevant subject are invited to participate in writing a collective monograph. The future publication will be a result of the activities of the authors’ team united by a common idea to present achievements of their researches.
The monograph is published by the European publishing house “Izdevnieciba “Baltija Publishing” (Riga, Latvia) and recommended for printing by the institution’s academic council. Reviewers, who are mentioned in the monograph’s output data, guarantee an independent review.
The monograph is awarded ISBN that permits authors to participate in developing the collective scientific paper published in the country of the EU.
DOI is assigned to every article included in the collective monograph that allows the authors to find their scientific work on the Open Ukrainian Citation Index (OUCI) site, which was developed by specialists of the State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine on behalf of the Collegium of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
The monograph will be available on the website of the European publisher “Izdevnieciba “Baltija Publishing” at the link.
The authors of the collective monograph’s section receive an electronic layout of the collective monograph (as of 2026) and a certificate.
Why is the publication of the monograph section valuable?
For fulfilling the licensing conditions, to obtain the degree of Doctor and Candidate of Sciences, for awarding the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), for young scientists (LEARN MORE).
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Yurii BOSHYTSKYI, President of the Kyiv University of Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 
Candidate of Juridical Sciences (Ph. D.), Full Professor, Merited Lawyer of Ukraine;
Romans DJAKONS, Dr.sc.ing., Professor, Academician, Chairman of the Board of Riga Nordic University;
Volodymyr PYLYPENKO, Vice-President of the Kyiv University of Law of the 
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Juridical Sciences, Full Professor, Merited Lawyer of Ukraine;
Mariia MELNYK, Scientific Secretary of the Kyiv University of Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
APPROXIMATE SECTIONS OF THE MONOGRAPHY
- Methodological and philosophical-legal foundations of modern legal science and education.
- Public law dimension of Ukraine’s development.
- Criminal law sphere and security challenges.
- Private law branches and economic recovery.
- International law dimension.
- Education and science as a factor in recovery and development.
REGISTRATION PROCEDURE:
To publish contributions in the collective monograph, authors should act as follows:
- fill in an application form and send a manuscript to law@cuesc.org.ua for peer-review before October 30, 2025;
- send a copy of the payment confirmation following the manuscript’s approval for publication.
Re: Monograph on development of ukrainian legal education and science.
KEY DATES
The submission of application forms and articles for publishing in the monograph: before October 30, 2025 (inclusively).
Feedback on papers approval: within 3–4 working days after papers receipt.
E-mail distribution of the monograph’s layout and the certificate: after January 15, 2026.
ARTICLE REQUIREMENTS
An article should be a holistic document of scientific content that involves the results of the author’s original researchers.
The volume of the monograph subsection should be at least 15–30 pages. A4 paper format, line space – 1,5; Times New Roman, 14 size; all margins – 20 mm.
3 persons are a maximum number of authors.
Languages: Latvian, English and Ukrainian.
ARTICLE GENERAL STRUCTURE:
Monograph section name; author’s surname and initials in the publication’s language.
A paper should have the following structure: a short introduction (1–2 pages), 2–3 equally weighted sections and conclusion (1 page), summary: 7–10 sentences in the article’s language (to indicate a range of problems and research results).
The article must have per-page citations as well as References at the end. Citations should be indicated with a number without brackets and dots using Microsoft Word references.
To improve the quality level of scientific citations in the scientometric database Open Ukrainian Citation Index (OUCI), it is important to indicate DOI for every source which it has.
Attention! References are in a source language and executed taking into account the National Standard of Ukraine DSTU 8302: 2015 “Information and documentation. Bibliographic reference. General principles and rules of composition”.
Author’s full name and information: scientific degree and rank, post, affiliation; address of employment place (in English regardless of the publication’s language).
Attention! In case of submitting a non-English article, an author should additionally submit an English name of the section and its structural elements (subsections) (see a design sample).
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
The Organizing Committee guarantees high-quality anonymous peer-review of each monograph section. All monograph sections are subject to checking for plagiarism using StrikePlagiarism.com by the Polish company Plagiat.pl.
PROHIBITION TO REFER TO THE AGGRESSOR STATE’S SCHOLARLY PAPERS
We kindly note that the monograph languages are Latvian, Ukrainian, English and French. It is prohibited citing and including in the reference list russian-language contributions published in any country, incl. papers written in other languages but published in russia and belarus.
REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE IN UKRAINE:
Center for Ukrainian and European Scientific Cooperation
(according to the signed international cooperation agreement with Riga Nordic University)
Contact person: Tiutiunnyk Tetiana Mykolaivna – Coordinator of the collective monograph.
Telephone: +38 (068) 473 07 28
E-mail: law@cuesc.org.ua
Web-site: www.cuesc.org.ua
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