Proceedings of the International scientific and practical conference ―Science, technology and art in global context‖ (October 14-16, 2025) / Publisher website: www.naukainfo.com. – Warsaw, Poland, 2025. - 72 p.

22 HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY AND CULTURAL STUDIES UDC 340.15:347.965(477.7)"18/19" Chokova Anastasiia PhD Student, Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University Mykolaiv, Ukraine ADVOCATES’ UNIONS OF SOUTHERN UKRAINE IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH – EARLY 20TH CENTURY Abstract. The study examines the process of formation and development of advocates’ unions in Southern Ukraine in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The preconditions for the establishment of the Bar institution within the framework of the 1864 Judicial Reform are revealed. The structure, functions, and main directions of activity of advocates’ societies, councils, and collegia operating at the judicial chambers of Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kherson, and Katerynoslav are characterized. The role of advocates in shaping legal culture, promoting the ideas of legality, human rights, and the independence of the judiciary is analyzed. The significance of advocates’ associations in the development of public life and the formation of a national legal tradition in the Ukrainian lands is determined. Keywords: advocacy, sworn attorneys, 1864 judicial reform, bar associations, Southern Ukraine, Odesa Judicial Chamber. The second half of the 19th and the early 20th century became a period of active formation of advocacy as an independent institution of the legal system in the