New Ukrainian Constitutional Court chairman elected
KYIV. March 18 (Interfax) - Yury Baulin was elected new chairman of the Ukrainian Constitutional Court by a secret ballot on Tuesday, the court's press service reported.
"A Constitutional Court chairman is elected in a secret ballot among the court judges for the only three-year period by casting ballots with any number of candidates proposed by Constitutional Court judges, and a candidate is considered elected if more than half of the constitutional composition of the judges have voted for him or her," it says.
Baulin was acting Constitutional Court chairman until recently.
Baulin was born in the Luhansk region in 1953. He graduated from the Kharkiv Law Institute in 1975 and than worked in the institute, which was later renamed the Yaroslav the Wise National Law Academy, until 2005.
In 2005-2008, Baulin led the Institute of Crime Problems Studies under the Academy of Legal Sciences in Kharkiv. He was elected a Ukrainian Constitutional Court judge in 2008 and its deputy chairman in 2011.
Baulin is a doctor of law, a professor, and a member of the Ukrainian National Academy of Legal Sciences. He is the author of more than 200 scientific works dealing with criminal and constitutional law.
