HAVRYLENKO Oleksandr Anatoliiovych (27. 05. 1966, Kharkiv) — legal scholar, historian of law. Candidate of Historical Sciences (1994), Doctor of Juridical Sciences (2011), Professor (2014). Graduated from the Faculty of History of Kharkiv University (1988) and Kharkiv University of Internal Affairs (2000). Worked 1988–90 and since 2015 at Kharkiv University: since 2015 — Professor of the Department of International and European Law; 1993–94 — at Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics; 1994–2015 — at Kharkiv University of Internal Affairs: 2007–15 — Professor of the Department of Theory and History of State and Law. Research interests: formation and development of law in the territories of Ukraine and other European states during Antiquity and the Middle Ages; administrative law in the Ukrainian gubernias of the Russian Empire in the late 18th — early 20th centuries; history of the state and law of Ukraine during the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–21 and the early totalitarianism period (1920s); historical and legal source studies; legal biographics; history of international law. Analyzed the processes of formation and development of ancient states and law on the territory of modern Southern Ukraine.