MAKSAKOVA Ruslana Mykolaivna (14. 07. 1976, urban-type settlement Enerhodar, Kamianka-Dniprovska Raion, now Vasylivka Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast) — jurist, constitutional scholar. Doctor of Juridical Sciences (2014), Professor (2015). Graduated from Zaporizhzhia University (1998), Humanities University “Zaporizhzhia Institute of State and Municipal Administration” (2006). Since 1998 worked at Zaporizhzhia University; since 2004 — at Classical Private University (Zaporizhzhia); since 2014 — Head of the Department of Constitutional, Administrative, and Labor Law at the National University “Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic”. Research interests: elections and referendums in Ukraine; constitutional and legal problems of the realization of constituent power in Ukraine. Based on the analysis of key concepts of the classical theory of constituent power and its modern modifications, she developed the concept of constituent power, specified the general theoretical provisions of the dialectical theory of law at the branch level of legal science; developed a general concept of constituent power, defined its essential features and types.