Zaborovsʹkyy V. The legal status of a lawyer in the context of the formation of civil society and the rule-of-law state in Ukraine

The dissertation analyzes theoretical-legal and practical problems of determining the essence of the legal status of a lawyer, as well as ways of its improvement. The object of the dissertation research is the complex of social relations that arise in connection with the definition of the legal status of the lawyer in the process of carrying out his professional activity in providing legal assistance at the present stage of the formation of civil society and the rule of law in Ukraine. The purpose of the dissertation work is to reveal the theoretical legal provisions of the legal status of a Ukrainian lawyer at the conceptual level, as well as to develop on their basis and introduction into practice of scientifically substantiated proposals for improving the norms of current legislation and rules of advocacy ethics, in the aspect of ensuring the proper realization of the right of a person to a professional legal (legal) assistance. To realize the set goal, the author uses dialectic, systemic-structural, comparative-legal, historical-legal, formal-dogmatic, logical-semantic, statistical and other methods, approaches and techniques of scientific knowledge, a wide quantity of empirical data. The paper formulates the scientific novelty of the obtained results, which consists in the fact that the thesis is the first in the national science special complex, systematic monographic research, in which the dissertation attempts to bring to the new doctrinal level the disclosure of theoretical and applied problems of determining the essence of the legal status of the lawyer, taking into account the latest tendencies of the development of Ukrainian legislation.