08.10.2026

On 2–3 October 2026, a professional seminar was held on legal reasoning and constitutional analysis. The event brought together Judges of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, members of the Scientific and Advisory Council of the CCU (the SAC), leading scientists and international experts.

During the two-day event, the participants discussed current issues of legal reasoning in the Court’s decisions, approaches to structuring them, specific aspects of constitutional proceedings, as well as current trends in the development of constitutional jurisprudence in Ukraine.

The participants were welcomed by Oleksandr Petryshyn, Acting Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, Oleksandr Skrypniuk, Chair of the Scientific Advisory Council, Dmytro Mazurok, Senior Project Associate of the OSCE Support Programme to Ukraine, and Olena Boryslavska, Deputy Chair of the SAC, Head of the Department of Constitutional Law of the Faculty of Law of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. The welcome session was moderated by Judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, Chair of the Permanent Commission on Scientific Support of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine Oksana Hryshchuk.

Judges of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine Viktor Gorodovenko, Oleksandr Vodiannikov, Oksana Hryshchuk, Viktor Kychun, Vasyl Lemak, Oleh Pervomaiskyi, Serhii Riznyk, Petro Filiuk, and Galyna Yurovska took part in the professional discussions.

The program of the event comprised four thematic sessions.

The first session focused, in particular, on the use of the case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union as a means of reasoning in the decisions of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine and on the role of legal doctrine in developing the Court’s legal positions.

During the second session, the participants discussed the requirements applicable to decisions of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, approaches to structuring them, as well as the relationship between the Court’s discretion in determining the structure of its decisions and the requirements of Article 19 of the Constitution of Ukraine.

The main topic of the third session was ensuring the continuity of constitutional proceedings in conditions of an incomplete composition of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine. In particular, the participants considered the specific aspects of recusal and self-recusal of Judges of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, as well as the continuation of a CCU Judge’s term of office in the context of balancing constitutional time limits with the need to ensure the continuous exercise of constitutional justice.

The fourth session focused on current trends in the development of constitutional jurisprudence and the approaches developed by the Constitutional Court of Ukraine during 2026.

The sessions were moderated by Judges of the CCU Oleksandr Vodiannikov, Viktor Gorodovenko, Oksana Hryshchuk, and Serhii Riznyk.

The professional discussion provided a platform for an open exchange of views on contemporary approaches to legal reasoning, the preparation and structure of judicial decisions, as well as current issues of constitutional proceedings. The participants emphasised the importance of holding such events to strengthen the institutional capacity of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine and to establish a strong doctrinal foundation for improving the quality of legal reasoning in its decisions.

The seminar was held with the support of the OSCE project “Strengthening Constitutional Justice: Building the Capacity of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine to Promote Gender Equality, Human Rights and the Rule of Law”.