LEGAL MONITORING OF THE ETHICS OF SCIENCE IN UKRAINIAN LAW SCHOOLS

Abstract

The article examines the legal monitoring of the ethos of science in Ukrainian law schools. Within the framework of the study, the author found out that the problem of the ethos of science in Ukrainian law schools is formed by the lack of legal monitoring of the functioning of a particular school of law, their assessment and adherence to ideology, views of scientists, positions of the leader and their follower, their understanding of reflection practices, adherence to certain values, convergence of visions of imperatives, etc., which ultimately emerges as a moral and ethical paradigm of the activities of a scientific school of law. The author emphasizes that a feature of scientific law schools in Ukraine is their pluralism, and functional capacity appears as a property of ensuring effective law-making activity in the state, nominating legal scientists as participants in law-making activity. In a socio-humanitarian sense, the author sees the problem in the fact that scientific schools act as centers of moral and ethical activity, being not always academic centers in the field of political science and law, nevertheless, they are able to accumulate scientific, organizational and intellectual potential; provide scientific expert conclusions with the challenges of the time, reflect requests for state-building and law- making processes in Ukraine; formulate new promising scientific directions, etc. All this is outlined as a stable progressive civil society that forms and maintains the scientific potential of Ukraine. Analysis of the concept of scientific schools of law, in the author’s opinion, shows that the activities of domestic scientific schools of law demonstrate reflection in their activities, which reflects ideological experiences, ethics and morality of knowledge of law, goals and, most importantly, values in law and legal regulation, juridification of certain phenomena of law. The author notes that some scientific schools of law adopt and defend the idea of “lawmaking” (a cross- cutting legal institution), without entering into the convo of natural or positive law. These schools reflect a mixed model of the effective, the effective, and the demanded in normative design. Other scientific schools of law, on the contrary, follow archaic models based on the historical architectonics of the development of law. Despite this, the author believes that those schools of law that are oriented towards in-depth research and following the ideology of the rule of law adhere not so much to customary national traditions of law as to follow Eurocentric practices. All these and other schools are characterized not so much by the peculiarities of the moral and ethical component, as by the customs and ideology of the areas of research that form the subject of their values, as an element of the ethos of the science of law.