Mykyta Mandryka’s Scientific Legacy in the Field of International Law: Ukrainian Institute of Sociology in Prague in the 1920s

Abstract

The paper deals with one of the aspects of the scientific and educational activity of the Ukrainian Institute of Sociology in Prague, the Czech Republic. It is shown that the institute was a powerful promoter of Ukrainian science and education in emigration in Europe in the 1920s–1930s. The institute’s activity is observed through the lens of the scientific and teaching activity of the famous Ukrainian legal scholar Mykyta Ivanovich Mandryka (1886–1979) and his contribution to the development of the then pressing problems in international law. The problems that he investigated are still relevant today, including the correlation of right and morality in international law, compromise as an integral part of the mechanism of law and justice, protection of the rights of minorities, etc.