Perepelytsia N. Principles of Lawyers’ Professional Activity: Theoretical and Law Study

The dissertation deals with the theoretical generalization and new ways of fulfillment of a scientific task suggestion consisting in development of the complex characteristic of principles of lawyers’ professional activity, construction of concept, elucidation of their formation, realization and normative and legal regulation on the basis of a complex scientific and theoretical research. The candidate for the degree has generalized and systematized the scientific and source base of research on the principles of lawyers’professional activity, as a result of which the division of all sources by type of legal activity and subject criterion has been done. The doctrinal sources used in the paper are classified into three groups of research: professional principles; moral and ethical principles and personal qualities of a lawyer; comparative and law studies. The system of methods of scientific knowledge, such as: hermeneutic, historical, structural, functional, comparative and law, systemic, dogmatic (formal and logical), method of classification, prognostic, specific and sociological method is the methodological basis of the thesis. To achieve scientific objectivity of the results obtained, these methods were applied fully. The choice of methodology is directly related to the subject of the dissertation research. The chosen system of methods is aimed at understanding the essence of lawyers’ professional activity, its structural characteristics and functional areas of influence, as well as the analysis of the current state of formation and implementation of principles of lawyers’ professional activity in Ukraine, setting ways of its normative and legal improvement.