Mykola Korniyenko

Mykola Korniyenko

Mykola Korniyenko was born in 1937 in Chernihiv region in a peasant’s family.

In 1956 he finished the railway college in Gomel (Bilorus). He served compulsory military service.

1958 – 1959 – inspector at Menskyi district financial department.

In 1964 he graduated from Law Department of Bilorus State University. He worked as an investigation officer in district prosecutor’s offices in Minsk and Chernihiv regions.

1968 –  1973 – post-graduate student, junior scientific research fellow at the Institute of State and Law of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.

1973 –  1974 –  assistant at the Administration of Affairs at the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR.

From 1974 – senior lecturer, associate professor, deputy head of the Department, Dean of Kyiv Higher Party School.

From 1990 – Deputy Head of the Group of Scientific Experts, First Deputy Head of Scientific and Expert Department of the Secretariat of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

In september 1996 he was appointed Judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

Candidate of Legal Sciences, Professor. Distinguished Lawyer of Ukraine.

Mykola Korniyenko participated in drafting the Constitution of Ukraine, Law on Election of People’s Deputies of Ukraine, Law on Local Self-Government in Ukraine and others.

Author of a number of scientific works on state building, formation and development of local self-government.

Mykola Korniyenko’s authorities of a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine  were terminated on June 26, 2002.