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BATANOV Oleksandr Vasyliovych — leading researcher of the Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law of the Institute of State and Law named after V. M. Koretsky National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, doctor of legal sciences, professor.
In 1997, he graduated from the Faculty of Public Construction and Management of the Law Institute of Odesa State University named after AND. AND. Mechnikova.
In the Institute of State and Law named after V. M. Koretsky National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine since 1998: 1998–2001– graduate student, since 2001 — junior researcher, since 2003 — researcher, since 2006 — senior researcher, since 2016 — leading researcher of the Department of Constitutional Law and Local Self-Government (now the Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law) of the Institute of State and Law named after V. M. Koretsky National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
In 2001, he defended his candidate thesis on the specialty 12.00.02 «Constitutional law» on the topic: «Functions of territorial communities as subjects of local self-government in Ukraine». In 2011, he defended his doctoral thesis on the specialty 12.00.02 «Constitutional law; municipal law» on the topic: «Municipal power in Ukraine: constitutional and legal problems of organization and functioning».
The academic title of professor was awarded in 2013. Honorary professor of the Zaporizhia National University (since 2014).
Main areas of scientific activity: constitutional and municipal law. In the center of scientific interests — problems of the theory of modern municipalism and municipal power, the constitutional and legal status of territorial communities, human rights in local self-government and state administration.
Author of more than 900 publications, including 4 individual monographs:
«Territorial community — the basis of local self-government in Ukraine» (2001); «Constitutional and legal status of territorial communities in Ukraine» (2003); «Municipal power in Ukraine: problems of theory and practice» (2010); «Theory of municipal law» (2024) and chapters in 36 collective monographs, in particular: «State formation and law-making in Ukraine: experience, problems, prospects» (2001); «Constitutional and legal forms of direct democracy in Ukraine: problems of theory and practice» (2001); «State authorities of Ukraine» (2001); «Problems of implementation of the Constitution of Ukraine: theory and practice» (2003); «State management: problems of administrative and legal theory and practice» (2003); «Territorial community statute: problems of theory and practice» (2004); «Comparative jurisprudence in the system of legal sciences: problems of methodology» (2006); «Actual problems of formation and development of local self-government in Ukraine» (2007); «Citizens' rights in the sphere of executive power: administrative and legal provision of implementation and protection» (2007); «Principle of the rule of law: problems theories and practices» (2008); «Decentralization and local democracy in the world : first global report by United Cities and Local Governments, 2008» (2009); «Legal acts of local self-government: essays on the legal nature» (2010); «Sources of constitutional law of Ukraine" (2010); «Ukraine and European integration: public and legal aspects» (2010); «Legal support of the state sovereignty of Ukraine(2011); «The system of executive authorities of Ukraine: legal problems of improving the organization and activities» (2013); «Legal foundations of the development of modern political systems: experience and perspectives» (2013); «Problems of the theory of constitutional law of Ukraine» (2013); «Doctrinal foundations of the development of the state and law: national and international trends» (2014); «Theoretical problems of development of the constitutional legislation of Ukraine at the current stage» (2014); «The constitutional process in Ukraine and the world experience of constitutionalism» (2014); «Civil society in Ukraine: current state, challenges, strategy of modernization: monograph: In 2 volumes. T. 1: General theoretical and constitutional and legal aspects of the development of civil society in Ukraine» (2018); «Legal regulation and economic freedoms and rights» (2020); «Local self-government in Ukraine and foreign countries: comparative legal aspects» (2020); «Human rights in Ukraine and in foreign countries: problems of theory and legal regulation» (2020); «Services for the protection of human rights in the field of local self-government (institute of municipal ombudsman): experience of comparative analysis» (2021); «Constitutional and legal provision of human rights activities in the field of local self-government: experience of comparative analysis» (2021); «Decentralization of public power in Ukraine in the context of foreign experience and European integration processes» (2021); «Modern unitarism: doctrine and practice» (2021); «Civil society in Ukraine: current state, challenges, modernization strategy: In 3 vol. T. 3: Civil society and the state: legal problems of interaction in the conditions of modernization and European integration of Ukraine» (2021), (2023); «Constitutional and legal regulation of the rights and freedoms of citizens in Ukraine» (2023); «Recovery and systemic post-war development of Ukraine– winners in the conditions of the new world legal order: analysis, views, predictions» (2023); «Strategic priorities of political and legal development of Ukraine in the context of European integration» (2024); «Zavorotko Pavlo Petrovych: IUSTITIA in CORDE. Trends in the development of legal science. In memory of the professor on the 100th anniversary of his birth (2024).
Author of one individual textbook «Municipal Law of Ukraine» (2008) and co-author of a number of collective textbooks and training manuals, in particular «Municipal Law of Foreign Countries» (Part 1, 2005; Part 2, 2006; Part 3, 2006); «Development of the urban community: introduction of new technologies of municipal management» (2006); «Administrative Law of Ukraine: Academic Course» (Vol. 1, 2004; Vol. 2, 2005; Vol. 1. — 2nd ed., 2007, Vol. 2. — 2nd ed., 2009); «Basics of organization and activity of self-organization bodies of the population» (Part 1., 2006); «Municipal Law of Ukraine» (2006; 2009); «Course of constitutional law of Ukraine» (Vol. 1, 2008; Vol. 2, 2012); «Constitutional law of Ukraine. Academic course» (Volume 2, 2008); «Municipal statutory law» (Part 1, 2008); «General principles of local self-government in Ukraine» (2010); «Problems of modern municipalism» (2012); «Administrative and territorial organization of the countries of the European Union» (2015); «Problems of modern constitutionalism» (2015, 2018).
Author of many articles in the Legal Encyclopedia, the International Police Encyclopedia, the Large Encyclopedic Legal Dictionary, the Small Encyclopedia of Constitutional Law, and the Great Ukrainian Legal Encyclopedia: Vol. 4: Constitutional law, «Encyclopedia of politics and law».
2015–2019 — a member of the Constitutional Commission, and since 2019 — member of the Commission on Legal Reform. Member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (since 2019) and the Scientific Advisory Council under the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (since 2021).
Prepared 4 doctors, 12 candidates of legal sciences and 1 doctor of philosophy in the field of «Law». He is a member of the specialized academic councils for the defense of theses for the Doctor of Law and Doctor of Political Sciences degrees of the Institute of State and Law named after V. M. Koretsky National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Chairman of the editorial board of the magazine «Ukrainian Law Review». Member of the editorial boards of the magazines «Law of Ukraine», «Privova severada», «State and Law», «Journal of the Kyiv University of Law», «Expert: Paradigms of Legal Sciences and Public Administration: Electronic Scientific Edition». Proceedings. Series: Law» (Kropivnytskyi, Central Ukrainian State Pedagogical University named after Volodymyr Vinnichenko), «Interdisciplinary humanitarian studies» (Series «LAW»), «Legal systems».
In 2002–2004 was scholar of the Scholarship of the President of Ukraine for young scientists. Laureate of the annual award of the President of Ukraine for young scientists in 2005 for the work «Territorial community» the basis of local self-government in Ukraine».
In 2009 he was awarded a Certificate of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and in 2019 In 2021 was awarded the badge «Distinguished by the Constitutional Court of Ukraine».
In 2021 the honorary title «Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine» was awarded.