The leading specialists and the tutors of Maritime Law and Management Faculty held the round table in the framework of the Ukrainian Law Week in NU «OMA» on December 8, 2016.

The main topic of the meeting was dedicated to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Besides, the round table’s participants discussed the issues of the European and international human rights standards, the constitutional human rights guarantees, the legitimate interests of the Ukrainian citizens and the possibility of their guarantees. The main strategies to protect the rights of crew members while conducting the investigation of emergency situations at sea were considered as well.

The following keynote speakers made their presentations: N.M. Baklanova, Candidate of Political Sciences, Assistant professor of World History and Methodology of Science Department (South Ukrainian State Pedagogical University named after K.D. Ushynsky), “The European standards and human rights: the Ukrainian context”; L.Y. Bello, senior lecturer of Civil and Labour Law Department, ”The right to legal assistance – a constitutional guarantee of rights and legal interests of citizens”; I.S. Boyko, Candidate of Political Sciences, Assistant professor of Maritime Law Department, ”Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination” (for Georgia against Russia, Ukraine and Russia); L.V. Valueva, PhD in Law, Assistant professor of Aministrative and Criminal Law, ”Property rights protection in the European Court”; N.M. Efteni, PhD in Law, Assistant professor of Civil and Labour Law Department, ”The realization of human rights in civil society”; O.I. Zorіna, PhD in Law, Assistant professor of Administrative and Criminal Law Department, “The State bodies and local government bodies, providing financial management in the light of the reform of ”decentralization””; A.V. Ivanova, PhD in Law, Assistant professor of Maritime Law Department, ”Safeguarding and control of the Ukrainian seafarers’ rights – the duty of the State”; A.V. Kovban, PhD in Law, Assistant professor of Civil and Labour Law Department, “The genesis of global rights in the international law”; V.I. Palko, PhD in Law, Assistant professor of Civil and Labour Law Department, “The legal status of internally displaced persons”; L.V. Yarovaya, Ph.D. in Political Sciences, Professor, Head of Administrative and Criminal Law Department, “The international human rights standards”.