Epel O. Doctrine of protection of constitutional social rights of a person and a citizen in Ukraine.

The dissertation is devoted to the complex and thorough analysis of the issues of constitutional social rights of man and citizen in Ukraine. The paper clarifies the specifics of the constitutional social rights of man and citizen and describes the classification of such rights. The constitutional and legislative guarantees of realization of social rights of the person and the citizen are analyzed. The content of international legislation on ensuring the constitutional social rights of man and citizen is detailed. Elements of the constitutional and legal mechanism for ensuring the social rights of man and citizen in Ukraine are revealed. The purpose, tasks, principles and guarantees of protection of the constitutional social rights of the person and the citizen are defined. Peculiarities of legal responsibility for violation of constitutional social rights of a person and a citizen are singled out. Gaps and practical problems of protection of constitutional social rights of a person and a citizen and tendencies of their reforming are detailed. Peculiarities of protection of constitutional social rights of a person and a citizen in the EU countries are studied, and also directions of borrowing of positive experience in the national social legislation are developed. The concept of improving the protection of constitutional social rights of man and citizen in Ukraine is formulated.