Heints Ruslana

Ruslana HEINTS

Head of the Department of Civil Law,

Candidate of Sciences in Law (PhD), Associate Professor

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Education, academic degree, academic status

1984-1989  – Ivan Franko Lviv State University, specialty «applied mathematics», qualification «mathematician»

2002-2006  – Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, specialty «law», qualification «lawyer, law teacher» (without interruption from production)

2011 р. – candidate of legal sciences, specialty 12.00.03 – civil law and civil process; family law; international private law

2013 р. – Associate Professor of the Department of Civil Law

Jobs, professional experience

1989-1996 – production association «Karpaty», department ACS.

1996-1998 – Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Center of Certificate Auctions.

1999-2000 – Ivano-Frankivsk regional branch of the State Innovation Fund of Ukraine.

2000-2001 – Ivano-Frankivsk regional branch of the Ukrainian State Innovation CompanyShe began her teaching career in 2003 at the Ivano-Frankivsk Financial and Commercial Cooperative College.

From September 2004 to June 2007, she worked part-time at the Institute of Management and Economics «Galician Academy».

In September 2007, she was accepted as an assistant at the Department of Humanities at the Institute of Management and Economics «Galician Academy».

From 2009 to 2011 – senior lecturer of the Department of Humanitarian and Socio-Economic Training of the Galician Academy of Higher Education Institution.

From September 2011 to August 2018 – work as an associate professor of the Department of Civil Law at Vasyl Stefanyk Pre-Carpathian National University.

From September 2018 transferred to the position of head of the Department of Civil Law of Vasyl Stefanyk Prykarpattia National University.

From 2020 March  elected to the post of head of the Department of Civil Law of Vasyl Stefanyk Prykarpattia National University by competition.

  1. Heints R. M. Business Law. Educational and methodological guide for independent study of the discipline. Ivano-Frankivsk: IME «Halytska Academy», 2008. 232 p.
  2. Heints R. M. The concept of a contract for the provision of communal services. University scientific notes. Collection of scientific articles. 2010. Issue 4 (36). P. 96–100.
  3. Heints R. M. Comparative legal characteristics of the institution of ownership according to the legislation of Ukraine and Germany. Actual problems of improving the current legislation of Ukraine: Collection of scientific articles. Ivano-Frankivsk: Prykarpattia National University named after Vasyl Stefanyk, 2015. Issue 37. C. 40 – 51.
  4. Heints R. M. Untitled contracts. Mixed contracts // Contract as a universal form of legal regulation: monograph (subsections 3.2.5 and 3.2.6 of chapter 3)/ by general ed. Prof. V. A. Vasylieva. Ivano-Frankivsk, 2016. P. 193-237
  5. Heints R. M. Comparative legal characteristics of easements under the legislation of Ukraine and France. Actual problems of improving the current legislation of Ukraine: Collection of scientific articles. Ivano-Frankivsk: Prykarpattia National University named after Vasyl Stefanyk. 2017. Issue 43. C.85-98.6.       
  6. Heints R. M. Self-protection of property rights. Property law: priorities and perspectives. Materials of Kyiv legal readings. Kyiv, March 22, 2019 / R. A. Maidanyk, Y. M. Romaniuk, etc.; resp. ed. R. A. Maydanik. K.: Alerta, 2019. P. 38-45.7.       
  7. Heints R. M. Legal capacity as an element of the civil capacity of minors. Actual problems of improving the current legislation of Ukraine: Collection of scientific articles. Ivano-Frankivsk: Vasyl Stefanyk Pre-Carpathian National University. 2020. Issue 54. C. 10-22
  8. Heints R. M. Subject of the contract for the provision of medical services: Contract as a universal form of legal regulation: Materials of the All-Ukrainian scientific and practical online conference dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Educational and Scientific Legal Institute (Ivano-Frankivsk, March 25, 2022). Ivano-Frankivsk: Prykarpattia National University named after Vasyl Stefanyk, 2022. P. 75-77
  9. Iryna I. Banasevych, Ruslana M. Heints,Mariya V. Lohvinova, Ihor V. Myronenko. The Place of Legal Custom in the System of Sources of Regulation of Private Relations. Journal of Advanced Research in Law and Economics. Vol 9 No 8 (2018): JARLE Volume IX Issue 8(38) Winter 2018. P. 2540-2550
  10. Iryna I. Banasevych, Ruslana M. Heints, Mariya V. Lohvinova, Oksana Olyinyk. Features of the legal status of sabjects of civil law. Journal of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine. 2021. Volume 28, lssue 2, P. 181-188
  11. Heints R. M. Legal capacity as an element of the civil capacity of minors. Actual problems of improving the current legislation of Ukraine: Collection of scientific articles. Ivano-Frankivsk: Vasyl Stefanyk Pre-Carpathian National University. 2020. Issue 54. C. 10-22
  12. Heints R.M. Contractual egulation of the provision of educational services by a institution of higher education. Actual problems of improving the current legislation of Ukraine: Collection of scientific articles. Ivano-Frankivsk: Vasyl Stefanyk Pre-Carpathian National University. 2022. Issue 60. P. 109-119.
  13. Myronenko Ihor, Heints Ruslana. Legal regulation of neighborhood relations (good neighborliness) in the context of recodification of civil legislation of Ukraine. Actual problems of improving the current legislation of Ukraine: Collection of scientific articles. Ivano-Frankivsk: Vasyl Stefanyk Pre-Carpathian National University. 2023. Issue 61. P. 2.39-2.48
  14. Myronenko I.V., Heints R.M. Copyrights for official works created by scientific and pedagogical workers. Actual problems of improving the current legislation of Ukraine: Collection of scientific articles. Ivano-Frankivsk: Vasyl Stefanyk Pre-Carpathian National University. 2023. Issue 62. P. 2.1-2.10

Research activities

The topic of the candidate’s thesis is «Civil legal regulation of relations by agreement about providing communal services». The dissertation was defended in 2011 at the specialized academic council of the Research Institute of Private Law and Entrepreneurship of NAoS of Ukraine (Kyiv) under the supervision of Doctor of Law, Professor V. V. Vasylyeva.

The author of more than 60 scientific and scientific-methodical publications, including the author of the textbook «Business Law» (2008), co-author of the collective monograph «The contract as a universal form of commodity turnover» (2016), two scientific papers in publications included in the Scopus scientometric database.Provides training for graduate students: in 2019, under the supervision of R.M. Heints, V.Ya. Horblyanskyi defended his thesis for the degree of candidate of legal sciences on the topic: «Protection of consumer rights under the contract for the provision of services», the preparation of the dissertation research is supervised by post-graduate students D.V. Ishchuk, A.V. Kypriyanchuk.

Educational and methodical activity

Provides teaching of academic disciplines: «Civil law of Ukraine», «Contract as a civil law form of commodity turnover», «Acquisition, exercise and protection of property rights», «Medical law» and «Contractual regulation in the field of services».Circle of scientific interests: property law; contract law; problems of legal regulation of service contracts.

Organizational activity

  • head of the «Private Law» thematic area of the «Civilian Club» student research group;
  • from 11.07.2016 to 31.12.2021, member of the specialized academic council K 20.051.14 at the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University for the defense of dissertations for obtaining the scientific degree of candidate of legal sciences in the specialty 12.00.03 – civil law and civil process; family law; international private law;
  • member of the academic council of the Educational-Scientific Institute of Law;
  • member of the organizing committee of the annual international conference on corporate law (2013-2019) and the annual all-Ukrainian scientific and practical conference on contract law on the topic: «A contract as a universal form of legal regulation» (since 2018 – 2023)