Zhelne S. The Evolution of Economic Litigation in Ukraine (Second Half of the 19th Century - 1991)

The proposed scientific study provides an analysis of current and past scientific interpretations of such concepts as "economic litigation", "arbitration proceedings", "commercial litigation". The issue of the formation of the principles of economic justice in the studied historical period was thoroughly characterized. The peculiarities of the organization and activity of commercial courts on the territory of Ukraine in the second half of XIX - at the beginning of XX century are shown. The specifics of arbitration proceedings in the USSR at the stage of formation of a unified system of state arbitration bodies (1922-1931) were determined. The peculiarities of the legal status of state arbitrators and arbitration proceedings in the 1970s and 1980s were studied.