International Legal Standards for Legal Status of Academic Staff

Abstract

The article presents a systematic analysis of contemporary international legal standards of the legal status of academic staff and concludes that these standards are the basis for the convergence of national legal regulation of the scientific sphere, which is an essential condition of the globalization of science and technology for the benefit of mankind. The study of universal and regional standards establishes that they are secured mainly in the sources of «soft» international law. The author proves that the key elements of the legal status of researchers is the freedom of research and the obligation to target research, both scientific and technological, for the purposes of social development in the coordinates compliance with and respect for human rights and freedoms. The result of the article is the position of the interconnectedness of the modernization of the legal status of research workers at the international and national level.