Special Issue December 2022

Summary: 1. Introduction. – 2. Proceedings on The Recognition of a Person as Disappeared: Features and Differences from The Recognition of a Person as Missing. – 3. Proceedings Declaring a Person Dead and The Difference from Establishing the Fact of Death of a Person in the Temporarily Occupied Territories. – 4. Key Legal Issues of Proceedings in Cases of Recognition of a Natural Person as Missing or Declared Dead in the Conditions of Hostilities and Temporary Occupation of Certain Territories of Ukraine. – 5. Conclusions.

Summary: 1. Introduction. – 2. International Legal Means of Protecting the Right to Health During an Armed Conflict. – 3. National Narratives Regarding Ensuring the Right to Health During the Armed Conflict and Their Practical Implementation in Ukraine. – 4. Protection of Medical Workers and Health Institutions: The Realities of Russian Aggression in Ukraine. – 5. Conclusions.

Summary: 1. Introduction. – 2. Death penalty official “legalization” in DPR as a step back to the USSR. – 3. Death penalty as the highest degree of social protection or a duty to protect the people? – 4. Human rights violations and tragic human toll caused by L / DPR leadership. – 5. Conclusions.

Editor-in-Chief’s Note

Summary: – 1. Introduction. – 2. The System of Ukrainian Law in The Conditions of War. – 3. Factors Causing the Necessity for Special Normative Regulation During the Period of War. – 4. Procedure for Criminal Responsibility and Exchange of Prisoners of War. – 5. Conclusions.

Summary: 1. Introduction. – 2. Russia’s recognition of the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics. – 2.1. Information Operations. – 2.2 Legal Containment. – 2.3. Shape Legitimacy. – 2.4. Probe Legal Lacunae. – 2.5. Exploit Loopholes. – 2.6. Abdicate Obligations. – 2.7. Malign Influence. – 3. Developing a Malign Legal Operations Defence. – 3.1. Identify: Literacy, Intelligence, and Operationalising Legal Domains. – 3.2. Disrupt: Integrated Strategic Litigation, Litigator’s Dilemma, Illumination, Accountability. – 3.3. Defend: Legal Resilience and Deterrence, Red Teams and War Games, Closing Gaps. – 4. Conclusion.

Summary: 1. Introduction. – 2. Jurisdiction of the ICC Regarding Prosecution of Offenders Who Committed Crimes as a Result of the Full-scale Invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation. – 3. ICC Model of Justice. – 4. Admissibility of Evidence at the ICC. – 5. Expert Status at the ICC. – 6. Peculiarities of Expert Involvement at the ICC. – 7. Conclusions.

Summary: 1. Introduction. – 2. Overview of the Sources. – 3. The Environmental Impacts of the Russian Invasion. – 3.1. Impacts on Energy and Infrastructure. – 3.2. Impacts on Natural and Protected Areas. – 3.3. Economic Impacts and Opportunity Costs. – 3.4. Nuclear Risks. – 3.5. Impacts on Water. – 4. The Environmental Damages and the Legal Responsibility from an International Perspective. – 4.1 International Environmental Law. – 4.2. International Warfare Laws. – 5. Conclusions.

Summary: 1. Introduction. – 2. Sexual Violence Against Women During Armed Conflict Under Provisions of International Law. – 3. Sexual Violence Under Provisions of International Humanitarian Law. – 4. Examples of Sexual Violence. – 4.1. The Democratic Republic of the Congo. – 4.2. Bosnia and Herzegovina War. – 4.3. The Pakistani War Against Bangladesh – 4.4. The American War Against Iraq. – 4.5. Armed Conflict in Syria. – 5. The Causes and Consequences of Sexual Violence. – 6. Sexual Violence During the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. – 7. Conclusions. – 8. Recommendations.

Summary: 1. Introduction. – 2. Unamendable provisions and unamendability of the constitution: general remarks. – 3. Unamendable provisions and the constitutional revolution. – 4. What provisions should be unamendable? – 5. Territorial integrity: Ukrainian experience of consolidation and protection. – 6. Conclusions.

Summary: 1. Introduction. – 2. Labour Code of Ukraine or the Law “On the organisation of labour relations in martial law”: the scope of acts during martial law. – 3. Features of labour relations and working conditions in the period of martial law in Ukraine. – 4. Statistical data. – 4.1. Statistics on Ukrainians who left Ukraine during the war in search of work and security. – 4.2. Statistics on Ukrainians who have remained in Ukraine and are looking for job. – 5. Conclusions.

Summary: 1. Introduction: children amid war in Ukraine. – 2. Information on children who suffered as a result of full- scale military operations. – 3. Legal mechanisms for ensuring the rights of children who were left without parental care during the war in Ukraine – 3.1. Reunification of adoptive parents with an adopted child. – 3.2. Transferring processes from placement of children to a digital format. – 3.3. Conditions for adoption and registration of children during martial law. – 3.4. Registration of candidates for adopters. – 3.5. Entities that can be adopters. – 3.6. Institute of Temporary Placement of Children in Ukraine. – 3.7. Institute of guardianship and care during martial law. – 3.8. Procedure for trial of adoption cases. – 3.9. National control mechanisms for displaced children. – 3.10. Foreign experience regarding the problem of “children of war”. – 4. Conclusions.

Summary: 1. Introduction. – 2. A fair, Independent and Accessible Court. – 2.1. Priority Goals of Judicial Reform. – 2.2. Risks of Achieving the Set Goals. – 3. Bar. – 3.1. Key Challenges of the Notion of Bar in Ukraine: Controversial Approaches. – 3.2. Modern Trends in Development of Bar in Ukraine: Functional Aspect. – 4. Key Challenges of the Notion of Public Prosecutor's Office, Priority Goals, Measures and Risks of their Achievement. – 5. Conclusions.

Summary: – 1. Introduction. – 2. The Status Quo. – 2.1 The legal framework for promoting settlement in civil and commercial disputes. – 2.2 The community of mediators. – 3. Changing Roles. – 3.1 Courts actively providing information about mediation. – 3.2 Mediators cooperating closely with courts. – 5. Concluding Remarks.