Scientific and Academic Staff Attestation: On the Issue of a Senior Researcher Academic Title

Abstract

The aim of the work is to analyze the legal status of a senior researcher academic title, some problems of applying the current legislation in terms of equating the academic title of a senior researcher with the academic title of an associate professor. The methodology of the work consists of the formal legal method, the method of interpreting the norms of law, the comparative legal method and the historical and legal method. The paper shows the identified problems of legal regulation of the position of a senior researcher, the title of which was awarded by a scientific organization in accordance with the legislation in force at that time. Based on the study of the genesis of domestic legal regulation of the mechanism for conferring the academic titles of senior researcher and associate professor, analysis of the provisions of the current sources of law, which are continued in the materials of law enforcement practice, amendments to the current legislation are proposed that equalize the rights of senior researchers, the title of which was awarded by state bodies, and those who have been awarded an academic title by organizations.