OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine organizes training on rule of law standards
KYIV, 5 June 2008 - Rule of law standards and principles are the focus of a training course for twenty Ukrainian professors, graduate and post-graduate law students that started in Kyiv today.
The four-day course was designed by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine to assist the country's law faculties in introducing a rule of law course into their curriculum.
Associate Professor Viktoria Vatamanyuk of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, said the course was an important step towards promoting and applying rule of law principles into Ukrainian legal education. "You need to change the attitudes of legal scholars in order for them to understand rule of law principles. This training course is very inspiring and helps to change the attitudes," said Vatamanyuk.
The training is being delivered by Serhiy Holovatyi, a member of Ukrainian Parliament and Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
The Office of the Project Co-ordinator plans to organize a conference later this year on the content and methodology of the rule of law courses for Ukrainian law schools. Recommendations developed during the conference will be submitted to the Ministry of Education to be included into the curriculum of universities in the country.