The Department provides lecturing of eight academic disciplines: "Labor Law", "Commercial Law", "Environmental Law", "Fundamentals of Legal Knowledge: Labor Law", "Modern Doctrines of Labor Law", "Modern Doctrines of Social Security Law", "Areas of Development of Labor Law", "Areas for the Development of Social Security Law". The staff of the Department has introduced new educational and methodological complexes of these disciplines, developed multimedia support for lectures, prepared and posted on the website of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs courses for remote studying. Innovative lecturing methods are used during the lectures, seminars and practical classes of the scientific and academic staff of the Department.

The Department unites in its structure three scientific specialties: 12.00.04 – Economic Law, Economic-Procedural Law; 12.00.05 – Labor Law; Social Security Law; 12.00.06 – Land Law; Agricultural Law; Environmental Law; Natural Resource Law. Scientific research of the Department staff is aimed at solving general theoretical problems of labor, environmental, land, agricultural, commercial, commercial and procedural law and social security law, and problems of legal regulation of relations in the field of service in the National Police of Ukraine and social protection of police employees.

Today the Department has formed a scientific school on the issues of labor relations of law enforcement officers. Its founder is the Head of the Department, Doctor of Law, Professor Kostiantyn Yuriiovych Melnyk.

Representatives of the Department take part in law-making work and examination of draft regulations. Thus, Kostiantyn Yuriiovych Melnyk was a member of the working groups on drafting laws of Ukraine "On the Disciplinary Statute of Internal Affairs of Ukraine" and "On Internal Affairs", as well as amending the Law of Ukraine "On Police". The staff of the Department prepared proposals and recommendations for improving a number of drafts of the Labor Code of Ukraine, the Labor Code of Ukraine, the Laws of Ukraine "On National Police", "On Higher Education", "On Scientific and Technical Activities", "On Civil Service" as well as proposals and comments on the draft Model of training for the National Police of Ukraine and the Regulations on higher education institutions with specific training conditions that provide training and professional employees training for the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Police of Ukraine, etc.

In 2011, the Department launched the annual all-Ukrainian scientific and practical conferences on labor law and social security law. Experts traditionally attend the conferences from all regions of Ukraine, including representatives from such leading universities and research institutions of Ukraine as Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, National University "Odessa Law Academy", Institute of State and Law named after V.M. Koretskyi, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, etc.

Contacts:
Address: Ukraine, Kharkiv, 27 Lva Landau Ave.
Tel. (057) 73-98-138
Email: [email protected]