The lawmaking linguistic and expert support: European and Ukrainian examples

Valentyna Lukianets-Shakhova; Yuliia Buhaiko; Iryna Tsvigun; Kateryna Sokh; Myroslava Hnatyuk; Iryna Spatar

doi:10.29051/el.v7i00.15952

Authors

Valentyna Lukianets-Shakhova National Academy of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (NAIAU), Kyiv https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2397-613X
Yuliia Buhaiko National Academy of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (NAIAU), Kyiv https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4413-5110
Iryna Tsvigun Western Ukrainian National University (WUNU), Ternopil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1284-4193
Kateryna Sokh National Academy of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (NAIAU), Kyiv https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3283-1154
Myroslava Hnatyuk Institute of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Lviv Polytechnic National University (LPNU-IHSS), Lviv https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1663-7095
Iryna Spatar Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (PNU), Ivano-Frankivsk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7115-2739

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29051/el.v7i00.15952

Keywords:

Linguistic examination, Legislation, Civil rights

Abstract

The article aims to study the role and importance of an expert and linguistic support of law drafting as a mean of improving the national legislation of Ukraine. The work is based on the application of descriptive, systematic, logical-legal, hermeneutic, statistical, comparative-legal methods of legal research and the method of alternatives. The research materials include normative legal acts regulating the activity of expert and linguistic support of lawmaking in Ukraine, Germany, France, the Czech Republic, and Poland. The circle of the main executors of expert and language support of lawmaking in the specified countries, for the definition of their efficiency according to the Rule of Law Index as an indicator of the quality of the legislation, is allocated. The nature of the influence of expert and linguistic support of lawmaking of the analyzed states and their Rule of Law Indices is established.

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Author Biographies

Valentyna Lukianets-Shakhova, National Academy of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (NAIAU), Kyiv

Candidate of Law Science , Associate Professor, professor of constitutional law and human rights department, constitutional law and human rights department.

Yuliia Buhaiko, National Academy of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (NAIAU), Kyiv

Postgraduate student, Constitutional Law and Human Rights.

Iryna Tsvigun, Western Ukrainian National University (WUNU), Ternopil

Candidate of Science of Law (Doctor of Philosophy), head of legal department/senior lecturer, Faculty of Law, Department of Civil Law and Procedure.

Kateryna Sokh, National Academy of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (NAIAU), Kyiv

Doctor of Law, Associate Professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights of the National Academy of Internal Affairs.

Myroslava Hnatyuk, Institute of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Lviv Polytechnic National University (LPNU-IHSS), Lviv

Candidate of Philological Sciences (Ph.D.), Senior Lecturer, Institute of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Ukrainian Language.

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