legal regulation

Hierarchical Structure as a Characteristic of a Criminal Organization

Abstract. Criminal organizations are complex and structured entities that operate within society with the aim of engaging in illegal activities and generating profits through criminal means. One of the key characteristics of such organizations is their hierarchical structure, which plays a significant role in the functioning and sustainability of these groups. It allows for the efficient distribution of tasks, the control of members' activities, and ensures the organization's long-term operation despite external threats.

Concept of Minority Rights

At the very beginning it is important to define the main components that constitute the whole theory and idea as such of the minority rights. The concept of minority expresses how the legal regulation reflects the existence of minority, what is understood by the notion ‘minority’ and what criteria are used in order to identify certain social groups as minorities. Regarding the definition of the concept ‘minority’, until now there is no generally accepted definition, neither at the international level nor at the European one.

International Legal Standards for the Legal Regulation of Intellectual Property: Foreign Experience

Before the twentieth century, obtaining intellectual property protection in different
countries was considered a difficult task since the legislative regulations of this process were
quite different. That is why more and more states wanted to systematise and develop a unified
approach to the legal regulation of intellectual property at the international level.
The emergence of international legislation on intellectual property is explained by the
fact that the rights to the results of intellectual activity have the quality of a ‘territorial

Legal Prohibition as a Method of Limiting Political Power

The issue of legal prohibitions in national and European law has a pronounced
interdisciplinary content. The modern Ukrainian environment, through which the legal values of
European (Euro-Atlantic) and universal civilizations - principles, norms, institutions, sources of
law, legal procedures, etc. - are “refracted” (“passed through”), is quite heterogeneous and
contradictory, and this cannot but affect the peculiarities of Ukrainian law.
These problems include, in particular, the absence, unlike in many European countries, of

Current Global Problems of Ethno-National Policy of Ukraine: on the Example of Legal Regulation of the Status of National Minorities

Annotation. The article is devoted to the analysis of the problems of ethno-national policy in
modern conditions of the development of statehood and points to the prospects of improving the
legislation in the context of ensuring the proper legal status of national minorities.
The article examines the main problems in the field of ethno-national policy of Ukraine and legal
regulation of the status of national minorities. The author emphasizes the absence of a single strategy for

Legal restrictions are a specific method of legal regulation

Abstract. The analysis of scientific sources provides grounds to assert that legal regulation is the regulation of social relations carried out through law and the entire set of legal means. The concept of "regulation" (from Latin regulo - rule) implies organization, adjustment, and bringing something into conformity with something else. In our view, to regulate means to define the behavior of individuals and their collectives, to direct their functioning and development, to provide certain limits, and to organize them purposefully.

Internally displaced persons as a special object of social protection in Ukraine

The article is devoted to the study of certain issues related to the social protection of internally displaced persons in Ukraine through the prism of security and economic aspects, which are the main ones for this category of persons. It is emphasized that the issues of migration processes throughout all the years of Ukraine's independence were quite acute for our state.