The historical principles of the constitutional and legal reform of the administrative and territorial organizationin Ukraine and the Republic of Poland are studied, analyzing the constitutional legislation of both countries, the implementation of the reforms, and the existing scientific approaches. The possibilities of applying the Polish experience of constitutional modelling of the territorial organization in Ukraine are determined. Attention is paid to the main directions of reform the system of administrative and territorial organization in Ukraine and Poland at different stages of their historical development. It is noted that each period of reform to the administrative and territorial organization of these states is characterized by a different attitude towards local self-government. This allowed to outline the models of the system of administrative and territorial organization in Ukraine and Poland and to clarify their common and specific features.

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Notwithstanding the war that raged through the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, Russia’s aggression against Ukraine is admittedly the first armed conflict of such a scale to take place almost in the heart of Europe. The Russian–Ukrainian war poses a threat to the international order, and risks escalating into a Third World War, especially if Belarus sides with Russia to participate in the armed conflict. While it could seem that in the 21st century all issues and conflicts arising between states should be resolved at the diplomatic level, in accordance with the requirements and norms of relevant international pacts and treaties, humanity still turns to such a destructive and cruel way of resolving them as war. This article explores the issue of accountability prospects for crimes perpetrated in the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, both from the viewpoint of State responsibility and from that of individual criminal responsibility.

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The urgency of the problem stated in the article is due to the fact that the status of the subjects of the educational process has changed significantly throughout the history of Ukrainian statehood, reflecting the type of socio-economic organisation of society, a certain level of civilisation, its degree of humanisation and liberalisation. The purpose of the article is to analyse the various historical stages of formation and development of legal regulation of relations in the field of education in Ukraine. According to the purpose, the leading method of this study was historical, which was based on the study of the origin, formation and development of objects in chronological order and which allowed achieving an in-depth understanding of the legal regulation of relations in education. The article proposes the periodisation of legal regulation of relations in the field of education, concludes that the predominance of public or private law influence on education at different times depends on socio-economic and political conditions. Research materials and formulated conclusions can be used in research activities as a basis for further historical and legal research of relations in the field of education.