Department of theory and history of law

The Department of Theory and History of Law was established in May 1998. Currently, the department employs 7 full-time teachers, including 1 Doctor of Law, Professor; 3 Candidates of Law, Associate Professor; 1 Candidate of Law; 1 Candidate of Historical Sciences, associate professor; 1 assistant.  

The head of the department is Olga Vitalievna Bodakova, Candidate of Legal Sciences.

Graduated from the Faculty of Management of the Academy of Management under the President of the Republic of Belarus in 2005 with a degree in Law. From 2005 to 2022 she worked at the Academy of Management under the President of the Republic of Belarus. In 2010, she defended her dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Legal Sciences in the specialty 12.00.15 – civil procedure; economic process; arbitration process.

Author of over 90 educational and scientific works. Of these, 1 monograph, 8 manuals, more than 20 articles in scientific publications included by the Higher Attestation Commission in the list of publications for publishing the results of dissertation research. Research interests: civil proceedings, economic proceedings, executive proceedings, alternative methods of conflict resolution, electronic justice.

The teaching staff of the department as of September 1, 2022:

  1. Bodakova Olga Vitalievna, Head of the Department, Candidate
  2. of Law 2. Trahimenok Sergey Alexandrovich – Doctor of Law, Professor.
  3. Lentsevich Olga Mikhailovna – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor.
  4. Kivel Vladimir Nikolaevich – Candidate of Law, Associate Professor.
  5. Skorokhod Igor Georgievich – Candidate of Law, Associate Professor.
  6. Shafalovich Anna Anatolyevna – Candidate of Law, Associate Professor.
  7. Infantry Tatiana Mikhailovna – assistant.
  8. Tarabesh Anna Sergeevna – specialist.
  9. Yatsevich Svetlana Demyanovna – leading specialist.

Specialties

Research work of students, undergraduates and postgraduates:
The department has a postgraduate course in the specialties 12.00.02 "Constitutional Law; constitutional process; municipal Law". The department is actively working with students to involve them in scientific activities. Under the scientific guidance of the teachers of the department, students write competitive research student papers. Student scientific conferences of all levels, Olympiads, round tables and business games are held annually.

Master's degree training:
The Department provides the educational process in the relevant academic disciplines of the master's degree in the specialty "1-24 80 01 Jurisprudence".

Educational activities

Disciplines

The following academic disciplines are assigned to the department:

  1. General theory of law
  2. Constitutional law
  3. Human rights
  4. History of the state and law of Belarus
  5. History of the state and law of foreign countries
  6. Fundamentals of law
  7. History of political and legal thought of Belarus
  8. History of political and legal doctrines
  9. Constitutional law of foreign countries
  10. Law-making process
  11. Roman Private Law
  12. Legal ethics
  13. Sociology of Law
  14. Modern problems and methodology of legal science
  15. Legal support for the development of the electronic state
  16. Law-making of representative, executive and judicial authorities

Research work

The main directions of scientific research and the results of the training of scientific personnel.
The Department of Theory and History of Law of BSEU conducts scientific research in the direction: "Modernization of the legal system of the Republic of Belarus during the formation of the information society".

Research work of students, undergraduates and postgraduates:
The department has a postgraduate course in the specialties 12.00.02 "Constitutional law; constitutional process; municipal law". The department is actively working with students to involve them in scientific activities. Under the scientific guidance of the teachers of the department, students write competitive research student papers. Student scientific conferences of all levels, Olympiads, round tables and business games are held annually.

Master's degree training:
The department provides the educational process in the relevant academic disciplines of the master's degree in the specialty "1-24 80 01 Jurisprudence".

Organization of practice and communication with production:
The department is working on the organization of economic and legal practice (after the 3rd year). There is a branch of the Department of Theory and History of Law in the regional Center of Legal Information in Minsk.

Communication with foreign universities:
In the 2020s, the Department of Theory and History of Law cooperated with the following foreign universities: Kalmyk State University, Ural State University of Law (Russia), R. Wallenberg Institute (Lund, Sweden) (development and participation in joint educational projects).

Interaction with the named foreign educational institutions of the Department of Theory and History of Law is carried out in the following forms: conclusion of academic cooperation agreements; development of work programs for academic cooperation agreements assigned to the department; organization of events within the framework of international projects.

Places in various university competitions over the past 5 years:
Since 2009, the department regularly occupies leading positions in the educational and methodological process, research, ideological work not only at the faculty, but also at the university among general education departments in the following nominations: "The best department for research work", "The best department for educational and methodological work", "The best department on ideological and educational work".

Contacts

Address:  65 Rokossovskogo, bldg 8, room 8

Tel.:+375 17 209-79-64

Email:ktip @bseu.by