On May 23, 2025, the VII International Scientific and Practical Conference "Decentralization of Public Power in Ukraine: Achievements, Problems and Prospects" was held.

The conference was organized by the V. M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the Faculty of Law of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, and the Rzeszów School of Law and Administration (WSPIA).

The purpose of the conference was to discuss the achievements of the decentralization reform in Ukraine at the current stage, problematic issues of the organization and functioning of local self-government in the conditions of martial law and post-war reconstruction of the country, as well as the prospects for municipal reform in accordance with European principles and standards.

The conference participants worked on the following thematic areas: Scientific, methodological, organizational and legal foundations of the reform of decentralization of power in Ukraine in the context of foreign experience and European integration processes; Organizational and legal support for the functioning of territorial communities, local self-government bodies and military administrations under martial law in Ukraine; Activities of public authorities to guarantee human and civil rights and freedoms in connection with Russian armed aggression (domestic and foreign experience); The role of direct democracy institutions in carrying out municipal reform (national and European dimensions); Problems of ensuring sustainable economic development of communities under martial law in the context of the decentralization reform in Ukraine.

The conference was opened by the Director of the V. M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law of the NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of Law, Professor, Vice-President of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, Academician of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine O. V. Skrypnyuk.

The following welcomed the conference participants: Dean of the Faculty of Law of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Doctor of Law, Professor V. M. Burdin, Vice-Rector of the Higher School of Law and Administration in Rzeszów, Doctor of Law Przemysław Niemchuk and Head of the Department of Constitutional Law, Faculty of Law, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Doctor of Law, Professor O. M. Boryslavska.

The following gave scientific reports: Doctor of Law, habilitated, professor at the Higher School of Law and Administration in Rzeszów, head of the Department of Constitutional Law and International Relations Eckhardt Krzysztof («Constitutional Status and Tasks of Local Self-Government in Wartime — comments in the light of Polish constitutional and legislative norms»); Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, Leading Researcher of the Department of Constitutional Law and Local Self-Government of the V. M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law of the NAS of Ukraine O. V. Batanov (« Trends in the development of municipal legislation in Ukraine in the context of foreign experience»); Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor of the Department of Political Science and Legal Sciences of the K. D. Ushynsky South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, Academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences M. O. Baymuratov (« Public and private principles in the life of a person, his groups and associations through the prism of municipalism as an existential-integrative phenomenology of their existence»); Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of General Theoretical Law and Public Law of the National University «Kyiv-Mohyla Academy» A. P. Zayets (« Problems of introducing administrative supervision over the activities of local self-government bodies in Ukraine»); Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine, Scientific Secretary of the V. M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law of the NAS of Ukraine A. R. Krusyan(« Local democracy in Ukraine: constitutional and legal support»); Candidate of Law, Associate Professor, Doctor of Law, retired judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, scientific consultant of the O. Razumkov Ukrainian Center for Economic and Political Research P. B. Stetsyuk («Decentralization of public power as an integral part (component) of the constitutional development of Ukraine»); Doctor of Law, Associate Professor of the Higher School of Law and Administration in Rzeszów Niemchuk Przemysław («On the Essence of Decentralization — from the Point of View of 35-Year Polish Experience»); Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine, Director of the State Institution « V. K. Mamutov Institute of Economic and Legal Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine» V. A. Ustymenko and Doctor of Law, Professor, Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the State Institution «V. K. Mamutov Institute of Economic and Legal Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine» R. A. Dzhabrailov (« Respecting the interests of territorial communities in the process of law-making activities: features of national practice»); Doctor of Law, Senior Researcher, Associate Professor of the Department of General Theoretical Law and Public Law of the National University «Kyiv-Mohyla Academy» Yu. B. Klyuchkovsky «The right to vote of EU citizens in local elections and the problem of sovereignty»); Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor of the Department of Constitutional Law of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv S. P. Rabinovych («On the question of the legal nature of subjective municipal rights»); Candidate of Law, Senior Researcher at the V. M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law of the NAS of Ukraine V. P. Tymoshchuk(«Increasing the Efficiency of Local Self-Government Bodies on the Basis of the Law of Ukraine «On Administrative Procedure»»);Doctor of Law, Professor, Academician of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, Professor of the Department of Theory and History of Law and State of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, President of the Association of Ukrainian Lawyers, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine V. V. Kostytsky («Conceptual problems of decentralization in the context of constitutional, administrative and municipal reforms in Ukraine»); Candidate of Law, Associate Professor, Chief Specialist of the National Resistance Policy Department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine I. V. Khort («Peculiarities of regulatory and legal support and interaction between local governments and state (military) administrations regarding the creation and effective functioning of Citizen Training Centers for National Resistance»); Doctor of Law, Associate Professor of the Higher School of Law and Administration in Rzeszów Krzeszowski Grzegosz («Humanity in the context of the idea of ​​the Geneva Convention»); Doctor of Law, Associate Professor at the Institute of Political and Administrative Sciences of the Ignatianum University in Krakow Eckhardt Peter («Legal Framework for the Participation of Private Investors in Spatial Planning Processes at the Local Self-Government Level — Polish model, adopted within the framework of the urban planning agreement»; Candidate of Law, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Constitutional Law of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv R. B. Bedriy («Organizational and Legal Support of Spatial Planning in Territorial Communities in the Context of Municipal Reform») and Candidate of Law, Senior Researcher, Senior Researcher of the Department of Public Administration and Administrative Law Problems of the V. M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law of the NAS of Ukraine V. A. Derets («Reform of local state administrations as an integral’ component of decentralization of power in Ukraine: administrative and legal aspect»).

The abstracts of the reports of the participants of the VII International Scientific and Practical Conference "Decentralization of Public Power in Ukraine: Achievements, Problems and Prospects" will be published in the collection of conference materials.