In accordance with the differentiation of public and private law the following branches are defined in the legislative system of Ukraine.

Constitutional Law

Constitutional law establishes the political and state system, rights, freedoms and duties of citizens, legal status of the Verkhovna Rada, the president, the Cabinet of Ministers, other bodies of state executive power and of local authorities, the justice system, territorial structure, state symbols, etc. The main source of constitutional law is the Constitution of Ukraine.

Civil Law

Civil law includes the legal rules governing the ownership and non-property relations, as well as personal relations between the objects of public relation in order to satisfy their demands. The main act in this branch is the Civil Code of Ukraine which entered in force on December 1, 2004. It contains six books and sets basically a new (for Ukraine) system of norms to govern civil relations. Taking into account new constitutional approaches to the human being and its inalienable rights it fixes individual non-property rights of a person and governs relations which enforce these rights. This code introduces new types of agreements into the legal practice: factoring, franchising, and rent service or inherited contracts etc.

Labour Law

Labour Law includes the legal rules collected in the Labour Code and governs the relations as to the labour contracts, working time and conditions, safety at the working place, social protection, the order of labour disputes resolution, etc.

Matrimonial Law

Matrimonial law relates to the grounds of marriage, its solemnization and dissolution, personal ownership and non-property rights and duties of the spouses, relations between parents and children, adoption issues, etc. Such rules are incorporated into the Code on Family which was adopted on January 10, 2002 and came in force on January 1, 2003.

Financial Law

Financial law regulates the state budget, banking, tax system, etc and its object of regulation is money and securities. The formation of financial system of Ukraine is in progress. In 2001 the Budget Code was adopted on June 21, 2001 and came in force on June, 2001.

Land Law

Land law includes the legal rules governing land use and protection. Here the main source is the Land Code of Ukraine adopted on October 26, 2001, which established the private ownership of lands. The Land Code came in force on Jabuary,1, 2002.

Administrative Law

Administrative law is based on the legal rules on the relations between the bodies of state government, executive and command activities, corpus delicti (Eng. body of crime) of administrative offences, etc. The main source of administrative law is the Code on Administrative Infractions, which entered in force on September, 9, 2005.

Criminal Law

Criminal law includes the legal rules defining criminal acts, forms of guilt, punishment making, discharge or mitigation. The main source of criminal law is the new Criminal Code of Ukraine. The Code was adopted on April 5, 2001 and came into force from September 1, 2001. Its main novel is the replacement of the death penalty for the gravy crimes by the perpetual imprisonment. It also envisages such new types of punishment as public works, arrest, deprivation of liberty, and official restrictions for persons on military service.

Correctional Law

Correctional law includes the legal rules governing the relations resulting from the execution of punishment and penal treatment. The main source of the law is the Correctional Code, came in force on January, 1, 2004.

Law of Civil Procedure

Law of civil procedure includes the legal rules governing the procedure of the court consideration and solving civil cases, and enforcement of writs. They are combined in the Civil Procedural Code, which entered in force on January, 1, 2005.

Commercial Law

Commercial Law regulates contractual relations and conflicts between legal entities, citizens and/or a state. Commercial Procedural Code provides that commercial court should bring an action on the basis of the entrepreneurial activity subject claim about protection of its legal rights, as well as the notices of suit from state authorities, the Office of Public Prosecutor or the Chamber of Accounting of Ukraine.

Law of Criminal Procedure

Procedural criminal law relates to the commencement of criminal proceedings, investigation and court examination of criminal cases. The Criminal Action Code regulates these issues.

International Law

International law governs relations between states (public) or between citizens of different countries and their associations (private). As Ukraine is a part to numerous multilateral and bilateral international treaties, agreements and conventions, they are included into the domestic legislation and determine international status of Ukraine.

The legislative system of Ukraine includes other specialized codes, each of them has its own inner structure and governs relations in its field.

Task 3. Give Ukrainian equivalents for the following words and expressions. Make up sentences or situations using them:

Public and private law; legislative system; local authorities; justice system; territorial structure; state symbols; non-property relations; as well as; in order to; objects of public relations; taking into account; new constitutional approaches to the human being; legal practice; factoring; franchising; rent service; inherited contracts; working time and conditions; grounds of marriage; state budget; banking; tax system; private ownership of lands; administrative infractions; death penalty; military service; penal treatment; court consideration; Civil Procedural Code; commercial court; entrepreneurial activity subject claim; the Office of Public Prosecutor; the Chamber of Accounting; multilateral and bilateral international treaties

Task 4. Find in the text English equivalents for the following words and expressions:

Правовий статус; виконавча влада; система правосуддя; державні символи; задовольняти потреби; невід’ємні права; впроваджувати права; соціальний захист; порядок вирішення трудових спорів; питання усиновлення; використання та захист землі; розробка проекту закону; земельна реформа; кримінальні дії; винесення покарання; змінення смертної кари за тяжкі злочини на довічне ув’язнення; передбачити нові види покарання; позбавлення волі; виконання покарання; судовий розгляд; виконання судових приписів; подавати позов; позов, про підприємницьку діяльність суб’єкта; порушення кримінальної справи; розслідування.

Task 4. Match the definitions in the right column to the words given in the left:

1) franchising 2) deprivation 3) discharge 4) mitigation 5) perpetual 6) corpus delicti 7) penal treatment 8) inalienable

a) the body of facts, showing that a breach of the law has taken place, esp. the body of the victim in a case of murder; b) making less severe or painful; c) continuing or valid forever; for an unlimited time; d) incapable of being removed; e) the techniques and actions customarily applied when relating to punishment; f) the state of being without something, esp. vital to one’s well-being; loss; g) the act of relieving somebody of an obligation, accusation, penalty; h) the right granted to an individual or group to market company’s goods or services in a particular territory;

Task 5. Find in the text a word or a phrase that means:

1. to cause (a rule or law) to be obeyed or carried out; 2. relating to marriage;

3. relating to prisons or other places or methods of punishment; 4. the termination of an association or union, esp. marriage; 5. to consider as a possibility in future;

6. the upbringing of a child of other parents as one’s own child after undergoing certain legal formalities; 7. business of a bank or banker; 8. a formal document of a court commanding or forbidding an act specified in it; 9. beginning; 10. formal interrogation, e.g. in a law court. 11. breaking a rule, law, a person’s right, etc.

Task6. Fill in the appropriate word:

Claim, took into account, investigation, enforce, envisaged, discharged, notice, the death penalty. consideration, imprisonment

1. The proposals are still under ……… .

2. His ……. to own the house is invalid.

3. The timetable is subject to change …….. .

4. He had not ……. the matter in that light.

5. He was sentenced to one-year’s …… . .

6. The causes of the railway accident are under …….. .

7. The accused man was found not guilty and was …….. .

8. The judge …… the mitigating circumstances ……… when passing sentence.

9. The main task of the executive power is to ……… laws.

10. The murderer was sentenced to ………. .

Task 7. Read and say whether these statements are true or false:

1. Constitutional law specifies the branches of the state power in Ukraine. 2. Civil law regulates contractual relations and conflicts between legal entities, citizens and a state. 3. Such legal practices as factoring, franchising, rent services are incorporated in the Correctional Code. 4. The Civil Code regulates relations in regard to the labour contract, working time and conditions, safety at the working place, social protection and the order of labour disputes resolution. 5. The Code on Family deals with the issues of marriage and relations between parents and children. 6. The financial system of Ukraine is determined by Financial law. 7. The Land Code established the state monopoly ownership of lands. 8. Administrative law provides for relations between state and local authorities. 9. Corpus delicti is the Latin phrase meaning ‘body of crime’. 10. Under the new Criminal Code of Ukraine the perpetual imprisonment was replaced by the death penalty. 11. The Correctional Code provides for new forms of punishment. 12. The execution of punishment and penal treatment are regulated by Correctional Law. 13. The Civil Procedural Code regulates entrepreneurial activities. 14. The Criminal Action Code regulates issues connected with the commencement of criminal proceedings, investigation and court examination. 15. International law regulates relationships between public and private associations.

Task 9. Translate into English:

1. Адміністративне право регулює суспільні відносини, що виникають у сфері державного управління, яке здійснюється органами виконавчої влади, а у деяких випадках – й іншими державними органами та органами місцевого самоврядування. 2. Шлюбно-сімейні – це особисті немайнові відносини, які виникають з родства (kinship), шлюбу, усиновлення, та майнові відносини, які випливають з особистих. 3. Фінансове право розглядає питання, пов’язані з економікою, підприємницькою діяльністю та фінансовою діяльністю.

4. Кримінальне право визначає види злочинів, види і строки покарань та звільнення від покарань. 5. Цивільне право регулює певні майнові відносини, відносини у сфері товарообігу (commodity circulation), а також деякі категорії немайнових відносин. 6. Завданням земельного законодавства є регулювання земельних відносин з метою створення умов для раціонального використання й охорони земель, рівноправного розвитку всіх форм власності на землю, поліпшення природного середовища, охорона прав громадян, підприємств, установ і організацій на землі. 7. «Господарський процесуальний кодекс» розглядає організацію господарських судів в Україні, статус судді господарського суду та інші питання діяльності господарського суду.

5. Індивідуальна робота студентів

Iндивідуальна робота студентів передбачає:

– виконання індивідуальних завдань (підготовка презентації із запропонованих тем, доповіді, звіту, есе тощо);

– роботу з мультимедійними програмами в комп’ютерному класі (компактдиск є в комплекті підручників з курсу та містить матеріал до відповідних тем);

– роботу з аудіокасетами (касети є в комплекті та містять матеріал до відповідних тем);

– консультації щодо виконання індивідуальних завдань, розробки презентацій, рефератів, виконання контрольних робіт, підготовки до практичних занять, модульного контролю;

– індивідуальні заняття з метою підвищення рівня їх підготовки.

Iндивідуальна робота студента контролюється, перевіряється та оцінюється викдадачем.

Зміст індивідуальної роботи студентів з курсу

Тема	Завдання
Unit 1.Judiciary in Ukraine. Need for Law. Functions of Law. Kinds of Law . [1, 139-163]	Writing: summary
Unit 2.. Scientific Prose Style. The History of the Ukrainian Legal System. Main Sources of Ukrainian Law [1, 164-177]	. Writing: memo
Unit 3. Conferences..Presentations. Branches of the Law of Ukraine. [1, 139-163]	Writing: report