The private institution "Ukrainian Center of Legal Studies" - the UCLS - is a research and analytical center with non-profit status, founded in June 2021. The Board consisting of five members is the permanent executive body of the UCLS. The Chairman of the Board leads the institution. The Supervisory Board oversees the activities of the UCLS in accordance with the national legislation and the Constituent Act of the UCLS.
The purpose of the Center is to promote the development of research, education, and enlightenment in the field of law.
Vision - values of the rule of law have been implemented in Ukraine: laws are fair, the state secures and protects human rights, Ukrainian citizens are actively involved in the state policy process.
The values of the UCLS are academic integrity, fairness and professionalism.
Supervisory board
Liliana Tymchenko - associate professor, head of the Law, Political and Economic Sciences Committeeat the European Humanities University (Vilnius, Lithuania). She holds a specialist diploma in law from the State University of Moldova (1994) and a diploma of doctor in law from the International Independent University of Moldova (1998).
Her scholarly interests focus on counterterrorism, the protection of human rights, the recognition of states in international law, methods of teaching international legal disciplines and research methodology.
She has been a visiting professor at: the Rutgers Law School (Newark, N.J., U.S.A.); the Yale International and Area Studies (New Haven, Ct., U.S.A.); the Faculty of Law at the Geneva University (Geneva, Switzerland); the Graduate School of Management in Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain).
Notable is her four years of active participation in the Civic Education Project (USA, Hungary) with responsibility to spread the democratic values via teaching and organizing international activities for professors and students, such as conferences, moot courts, roundtables.
In recent years, Liliana has been actively engaged in expert activities within the Scientific Advisory Council of the Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine and the Legal Reform Commission under the President of Ukraine.
