Vectors of law-making activity in Ukraine in the conditions of modern challenges related to repelling the aggression of the Russian Federation
Authors: Vasetsky Viacheslav 
Published: December 2024

The paper is devoted to the justification of the need to apply the Law of Ukraine «On Law-Making Activity» in the conditions of repelling the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, which determines the relevance of such direction of legal activity in Ukraine. The law pending implementation will be applied in a turning point in history, which aﬀects not only Ukraine, but also most countries of the world. For Ukraine, this is connected with our people repelling the onslaught of the Russian army, which on February 22, 2022 carried out an act of aggression against Ukraine with the aim of destroying the Ukrainian state, the identity of the people, and depriving of their historical roots. Reforming the security system at the international and national levels is becoming an urgent problem today.

The purpose of the study is to justify the need to apply the Law of Ukraine «On Law-Making Activities» taking into account modern trends in the reform of legal institutions in the field of security, the need to study in this direction the fundamental content of transformations in the legal sphere of a general doctrinal nature, taking into account the fact that Ukrainian legislation will be in the system of general provisions that the international community will necessarily develop.

An analysis of the arguments given by well-known political figures and scientists regarding the reform of legal institutions aimed at ensuring security at the international and national levels has been carried out. It follows from this analysis that the system of collective security, which was created after the Second World War, has exhausted itself in many aspects. It is noted that in order to overcome modern challenges and reform legal institutions in the field of security, it is necessary to proceed from the most general fundamental provisions, which are based on the doctrinal principles of the security of humanity and the individuals.

The issue of ensuring general security should be considered together with relevant measures at the subsidiary level. National security is a multifaceted concept, which on the one hand refers to military, political, economic, aspects, important interests of society and the state, the implementation of which ensures the state sovereignty of Ukraine, its progressive democratic development. On the other hand, national security ensures safe living conditions and the well-being of its citizens.

It is substantiated that the development and positive practice of the application of legal norms in the field of ensuring human rights and freedoms should remain a component of the reformed system of legal institutions. In Art. 3, clause 2 of the Law of Ukraine «On Law-Making Activities» explicitly states that law-making activities are carried out in accordance with the principle of priority of aﬃrming and ensuring human rights and freedoms, compliance with international standards in the field of human rights. Provisions regarding human rights and freedoms enshrined in international normative legal documents must remain universally binding for any legal system, any state. This approach is also important for the legal practice of democracy’s fight against authoritarianism.

Key words: Aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, Law of Ukraine «On Law-Making Activities», reform legal institutions in the security field, doctrinal principles of ensuring the security.