The Department of Business and Administrative Law is a structural unit of Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University, the main mission of which is to prepare graduates with a set of systematized knowledge, skills and practical skills, ways of thinking, professional, ideological and civic qualities, moral and ethical values, competencies in law, related to academic disciplines taught by the teaching staff of the department.

The mission of the department is to form a national environment of highly qualified lawyers in the field of economic and administrative law, who are carriers of a high legal culture and are able to influence legal consciousness, promote the integration of Ukraine into the global economic space, affirm the principle of the rule of law, maintain law and order, to contribute to the post-war recovery and development of Ukraine in the conditions of modern economic, ecological, political, social challenges.

Vision of the department:

• a professional community of like-minded people guided by the principles of mutual support, respect, and personal development throughout life;
• part of a leading law school that provides training of highly qualified lawyers in demand on the regional and national labor market;

• a reliable partner for the regional and national legal and business community, judicial, public, state institutions, scientific institutions, open to innovative cooperation and partnership;

• a branch of the scientific school of economic law, which unites scientists who conduct research on modern problems of economic law and economic procedural law, conduct training of highly qualified specialists.

The educational process at the department is provided by the professor and four associate professors of the department, one of them has a doctor of science degree, three have a candidate of science, and one has a doctor of philosophy degree; four have the academic rank of associate professor. The department actively involves practicing lawyers, in particular, judges of economic and administrative courts, lawyers and other professionals in the field of law, to the teaching of educational disciplines.

According to the educational program 081 «Law» of «Bachelor’s degree» the Department provides teaching of such disciplines as «Commercial law», «Commercial procedural law», «Land law», «Environmental law», «Agrarian law», «Competition law», a number of disciplines of economic and legal direction at the choice of the student. According to the educational program of «Master’s degree» teachers of the department offer to study courses of the student’s choice of economic and legal direction, including author’s courses «Problems of economic legislation», «Problems of economic procedural law», «Legal service of business entities», «Investment law», «Recreational law»  and other important disciplines for training a specialist in the field of management.

Teachers of the department actively participate in preparing students for participation in the All-Ukrainian competition of scientific works, All-Ukrainian Olympiad in law, international and all-Ukrainian scientific conferences. According to the long-standing tradition, the department annually holds All-Ukrainian competitions in business law and process named after S.Z. Mikhailin.

The sphere of scientific interests of the teachers of the department are the problems of legal regulation of the organization and implementation of economic activity, the problems of economic litigation, the problems of legal regulation of agrarian, land, ecological and natural resource relations. Teachers of the department are the authors of a significant number of individual and collective monographs, scientific articles and other scientific publications in these areas.

The department trains postgraduate and doctoral students in the specialty 12.00.04 – business law; economic and procedural law. Currently, 15 graduate students of the second – fourth years of study are being trained.

Teachers, graduate students and students take an active part in international scientific and practical conferences, “round tables” and other scientific and practical events held in Ukraine and other countries.

Currently, two teachers of the department are members of the specialized academic council K 11.051.12 of Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University for the defense of candidate dissertations in the specialty 12.00.04 – commercial law, commercial procedural law.