The English-Ukrainian Rule of Law Dictionary project has been shortlisted for the Halsbury Award for Rule of Law in the national LEXIS/NEXIS Legal Awards. The awards ceremony will take place on 13 March 2025.
The project aims to remove historic Russian influence from the definition of constitutional legal terminology through the creation of a new Ukrainian legal dictionary. The dictionary contains definitions for over 1,000 legal terms and has been created by legal experts from Ukraine’s Constitutional Court, the Department of Constitutional Law at Ivan Franko National University Lviv, and the University of Birmingham Law School.
Professor Lisa Webley, Chair in Legal Education and Research at the Birmingham Law School, said in response to the nomination: “I’m delighted to learn that we are finalists for the LEXIS/NEXIS Halsbury Award for the Rule of Law”. Our project, which has involved 35 students in Birmingham Law School alongside colleagues from the Departments of Public Law and for Foreign Languages for the Humanities and their respective students at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, colleagues at the O.O. Potebnia Institute of Linguistics of the National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine, and the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, is seeking to support the rule of law in Ukraine and the independence of the Ukrainian legal system.”
