The article analyzes the place and role of national legal monuments in the history of Ukrainian statehood. It is noted that national legal monuments are an important component of the historical and legal heritage of Ukraine. They are an important source for understanding the history of Ukrainian statehood, since it is precisely in them that the evolution of state and legal institutions, the system of legal values, and perceptions of freedom, justice, equality, democracy, the rule of law, power, and human rights in different historical epochs are reflected. In the history of Ukrainian statehood, legal monuments performed not only a regulatory function but also played the role of a means of preserving statehood, national sovereignty, and national identity. National legal monuments attest to the continuity of the Ukrainian legal tradition and the formation of national legal culture. It is emphasized that national legal monuments were created during the periods of existence of the Ukrainian state, in particular: legal monuments of the Kyiv-Rus state (9th–12th centuries); legal monuments of the era of the Galicia–Volyn state (13th–14th centuries); legal monuments of the Ukrainian Cossack state “Zaporizhian Host” (17th–18th centuries); monuments of national law during the period of restoration of Ukrainian statehood (1917–1921); certain legal monuments of the Ukrainian SSR (1917–1991); legal monuments of modern Ukrainian statehood (1991–2026). Outstanding national legal monuments are analyzed, in particular “The Rus’ Law”, “Russkaya Pravda”, “The Statutes of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania” (1529, 1566, 1588), “The Rights by Which the Little Russian People Are Judged” of 1743, “Court and Reprisal in the Laws of Little Russia” of 1750, “The Book of Statutes and Other Little Russian Laws” of 1764, “The Extract of Little Russian Laws” of 1767, “Extract from Decrees, Instructions, and Guidelines” of 1786, the Constitution of the Ukrainian Cossack State of 1710 “Pacts and Constitutions of the Rights and Liberties of the Zaporizhian Host”, known as the Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk of 1710, “Collection of Little Russian Laws” of 1807, the Universals of the Ukrainian Central Rada, the Constitution of the Ukrainian People’s Republic of 1918, and others. It is emphasized that national legal monuments played a decisive role in the formation and development of Ukrainian statehood. National legal monuments are not only historical documents but also the spiritual and legal foundation of Ukrainian statehood. They not only regulated social relations but also affirmed the ideas of legality, justice, selfgovernment, and freedom. It is precisely through them that the continuity of the Ukrainian state and legal tradition and the people’s aspiration for their own state can be traced. They serve as the basis for modern law-making and the establishment of Ukraine as a democratic, rule-of-law state. National legal monuments are of great importance for modern Ukraine. First of all, they serve as the historical and legal foundation of the modern Constitution of Ukraine, shape legal consciousness and national identity; confirm the continuity of the Ukrainian state-building tradition; are of great importance for legal science and education, act as a source of legal ideas, testify to the deep roots of Ukrainian law-making and constitutionalism, and confirm the aspiration of the Ukrainian people to self-government and the rule of law.

Authored books

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Conference papers

34. Boiko I, ‘Stanovlennia ukrainskoi pravovoi tradytsii v period Kyivskoi Rusi ta Halytsko- Volynskoi derzhavy: skhidni y zakhidni vplyvy’, Zakhidni i skhidni tradytsii ta vplyvy v istorii prava, derzhavy i yurydychnoi dumky: materialy XXXVIII Mizhnarodnoi istoryko-pravovoi konferentsii, 1-9 chervnia 2018 r., m. Vinnytsia (I Usenko (holova red. kolehiia), Oldi-plius 2018) 69–76 (in Ukrainian).

35. Khudoiar L, ‘Realizatsiia pryntsypu rivnosti u polozhenniakh konstytutsii Pylypa Orlyka 1710 r.’, 300 rokiv Konstytutsii hetmana Ukrainy Pylypa Orlyka: problemy stanovlennia i rozvytku ukrainskoho derzhavotvorennia: Materialy mizhnar. nauk.-prakt. konf. (m. Lviv, 14 travnia 2010) (Lviv. derzh. un-t vnutr. sprav 2010) 187 (in Ukrainian).