Irine S. Shakhray, PhD (Candidate of Sciences) in Law, Associate Professor
Joined the Law Faculty of the Belarusian State University in 1999. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Belarusian State University, Law Faculty, Environmental and Agrarian Law Department.
Her research interests are in the field of legal environmental protection, nature usage rights and nature management.
She lectures in Environmental and Land Law.
Since 1999 till 2008 she served in several capacities, including a research fellow at the Institute of State and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Agrarian and Environmental Law Department.
She took postgraduate course in Environmental, Nature Resourses Law and Agrarian Law and was awarded PhD for the thesis “The Forest Special Usage Right
” (2003).
The total number of publications is more than 60, including monograph, commentaries to the legislation, course books, articles in journals, collections of scientific articles, articles in conference proceedings.
Selected publications:
• The Special Forest Usage Right. Minsk, 2006. – 214 p.
The theme of the book is the special forest usage rights as a particular legal form of nature usage right (nature management). The aim of the book is clearing up the legal meaning and the essence of forest special usage; complex analyses of legal regulation of forest special usage legal relationships as well as peculiarities of subtypes of the above-mentioned activities; working-out the suggestions of further forest and ecological legislation improvement in the Republic of Belarus.
• Natural resources as the rented objects // Law in modern Belarusian society: collection of academic works, edition 5/editors: V.I. Semenkov (editor-in-chief) and others; National center for law and legal research of the Republic of Belarus. – Minsk: Pravo i Ekonomika, 2010. – P. 407–417.
The subject of the present paper is to define natural objects which may be rented. The article analyzes such signs of rented objects as inconsumability, severalty and individualization taking into account the specifics of nature usage right. The author studies modern environmental and civil legislation of the Republic of Belarus as well as scientific literature on the problem under discussion. A number of theoretical findings and practical recommendations for the improvement of the environmental legislation have been suggested.
• Concession as a form of the nature management // Law in modern Belarusian society: collection of academic works. National center for law and legal research of the Republic of Belarus; editors: V.I. Semenkov (editor-in-chief). – Minsk: Biznesofset, 2011. – Edition 6. – P. 383-390.
The subject of the present paper is studying a concession as a form of the nature usage right (nature management). The author investigates modern environmental and investment legislation of the Republic of Belarus, experience of foreign countries in this sphere as well as scientific literature on the problem under discussion. The article analyzes common and specific features of the concession and rent as particular forms of the nature usage right. A number of theoretical findings and practical recommendations for the environmental legislation improvement have been suggested.
• Environmental Law: Coursebook / S.Balashenko, T.Makarova, V.Laevskaya, V.Lizgaro, N.Shynhel, I.Shakhray; edited by T.Makarova, V.Lizgaro. – Minsk, 2008. – 495 p.
The course of Environmental law as an academic discipline is thoroughly given in the book. The latest trends of development of environmental legislation such as protection of the ozone layer and climate, genetic engineering safety and etc. are reflected in the textbook. The book focuses on such mechanisms of environmental protection as rationing, expertise, audit, certification, control, monitoring in the sphere of environmental protection and others.
• Commentary to the Code of the Republic of Belarus on Land / S.Balashenko, L.Samusenko V.Saskevich, I.Shakhray, N.Shynhel; edited by S.Balashenko, N.Shynhel. - Minsk, 2009. – 720 p.
This book provides a theoretical and practical analysis of the land legislation of the Republic of Belarus. The Code on Land is examined article by article. Peculiarities and problems of realization of the legal norms are explained in the book.