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  5. Administrative legal personality of executive bodies of Ukraine: doctrinal approaches and features of content in the conditions of the legal regime of martial law

Almanac of law. Issue 17 (2026), pages 317–324.

DOI: 10.33663/2524-017X-2026-17-317-324

Kysil L. E.
Administrative legal personality of executive bodies of Ukraine: doctrinal approaches and features of content in the conditions of the legal regime of martial law

The concept of administrative legal personality of executive bodies of Ukraine has been analyzed. It has been established that doctrinal approaches to its understanding remain generally fragmentary and methodologically heterogeneous. At the same time, the administrative legal personality of executive bodies is traditionally interpreted as the legally established ability of these bodies to be bearers of state authority power, to exercise them within the limits of legally defined competence and to be liable for the results of managerial activities. It encompasses the totality of legal capacity and capacity to act, finds its expression in the competence of executive authorities, which is implemented by them in the field of public administration, and is regarded by existing scientific approaches as a static, complete, and internally consistent legal construct that does not require adaptation to changing socio-political realities.

It has been proven that a common feature of existing doctrinal approaches is that they consider the legal regime of martial law as an exception to the norm, and not as an independent legal reality that requires its own theoretical tools.This position does not adequately describe a situation in which executive authorities are simultaneously obliged to ensure effective governance and remain within the limits of legal legitimacy under significant constraints of time, resources, and regulatory certainty.

It is substantiated that in war conditions, a comprehensive approach to the concept of administrative legal personality of executive bodies is necessary, which would combine regulatory - competence, functional and institutional elements. It has been established that the need for changes in the understanding of the administrative legal personality of executive authorities in wartime also has a clear regulatory basis: the Constitution of Ukraine provides the framework stability for this transformation, legislation on martial law provides its functional focus, and subordinate regulation provides its practical implementation.

The features of the content of the administrative legal personality of executive bodies in wartime conditions are determined. It is proposed to define the administrative legal personality of executive authorities under the legal regime of martial law as the normatively established and state-guaranteed ability of executive authorities to exercise state powers under a special legal regime characterized by the priority of public interests in the sphere of national security and defense, public order and stability of the state administration system, expansion of discretionary powers, temporary modification of procedural forms of administrative activity, change in the balance between public and private interests, and the emergence of asymmetry between powers and responsibility for their non-fulfillment/improper fulfillment. It is substantiated that such an understanding of the administrative legal personality of executive bodies creates a methodological basis for the analysis of specific problems of the implementation of the powers of executive bodies in wartime.

Keywords: the concept of administrative legal personality, executive bodies, normative-competence approach, functional approach, institutional approach, legal regime of martial law, features of the content of administrative legal personality of executive bodies in wartime.

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Дата першого надходження рукопису до видання: 20.01.2026
Дата прийнятого до друку рукопису після рецензування: 09.04.2026
Дата публікації: 30.04.2026

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