Scope, Aim and Objectives of the Journal

The editorial policy of the journal is aimed at advancing legal science and education through the publication of scholarly research in the field of law. Special attention is devoted to the intellectual legacy of Eugen Ehrlich and its influence on contemporary legal understanding and cognition, sociological and anthropo-sociocultural approaches to law, new hypotheses and concepts of the nature of law that emerged at the end of the 20th and in the 21st century, human rights, as well as the history and contemporary activities of the Faculty of Law of Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, where Eugen Ehrlich worked for nearly two decades during the peak of his scholarly career.

The “Ehrlich Journal” is designed to contribute to overcoming the ideological and methodological crisis in legal cognition and legal understanding that emerged at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. It reflects the irreversible transition of Ukrainian legal scholarship to European ideological and methodological foundations. The journal serves as a platform for academic discussion on the above-mentioned issues and as a venue for presenting new theoretical and methodological approaches, hypotheses, and concepts regarding the nature of law.

The journal promotes sociological and anthropo-sociocultural approaches to legal cognition and understanding, contributes to overcoming the dominance of legal positivism in Ukrainian jurisprudence, and primarily serves as a forum for scholars who adhere to these approaches.

Materials are published in Ukrainian and English.

The journal is intended for legal scholars, doctoral candidates, postgraduate students, students, and academic staff.

The aim of the journal is to promote the development of contemporary legal science through the publication of original research, the advancement of theoretical and methodological foundations of legal cognition, and the development of new approaches to understanding the nature of law in its social, cultural, and anthropological dimensions.

Objectives of the Journal:

– to publish the results of contemporary theoretical and applied research in the field of law;
– to develop sociological and anthropo-sociocultural approaches to legal cognition and legal understanding;
– to promote the scholarly legacy of Eugen Ehrlich and its significance for modern legal science;
– to contribute to the formation of new concepts and hypotheses concerning the nature of law;
– to support academic discussion on current issues of legal theory and practice;
– to facilitate overcoming the methodological crisis in contemporary jurisprudence;
– to promote interdisciplinary research in law, sociology, and the humanities;
– to provide an academic platform for the exchange of scientific ideas among researchers;
– to support early-career researchers, doctoral candidates, and postgraduate students in legal science;
– to facilitate the integration of Ukrainian legal scholarship into the European academic space.