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Antonovych Myroslava Dr Myroslava Antonovych Doctor of Law (Germany), Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor of the International and European Law Department, Director of the Center for International Human Rights, Law School, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy https://scholar.google.com.ua/citations?user=Ts9GKKgAAAAJ https://ukma.academia.edu/MyroslavaAntonovych https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Myroslava_Antonovych http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1803-5079 Сurrent Business Address: Law School, University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy 2 Skovoroda St. Kyiv 04070 Ukraine Tel.: (380-44) 425-6073; Fax: (380-44) 463-7109 e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] Education 2008 UWU, Munich, Germany, Doctor of Law Magna Cum Laude 1999 McGill University, Canada, LL.M. 1995 Lviv National University, Ukraine, Degree in Law 1988 Kyiv Linguistic University, Ukraine, Candidate of Philology (English) 1981 Dnipropetrovsk State University, Ukraine, Degree in English, with honors 1976 Novyi Rozdol High School, Ukraine, with Gold Medal Professional experience 2010 – by now National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv Director of the Center for International Human Rights 2010 - 2014 Judge ad hoc of the European Court of Human Rights 2006 - 2015 National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv Head of International Law Department, Law School 2000 - 2001 Commercial Law Center, USAID, Kyiv Professional Development Director (part-time) 1999 - 2000 National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv Executive Director of the Legal Information Research Center, 1998 - by now National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv Associate Professor, Law School 1998 - 2001 Center for Legal Studies, Ukrainian Legal Foundation, Kyiv Associate Professor, Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law (part-time) 1988 - 1998 Precarpathian State University, Ivano-Frankivsk Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, English Department Visiting Positions and Research Affiliations 2017 Researcher at the University of Toronto, Munk School of International Affairs, Center for Central and East European Studies 2016 Visiting Professor within Erasmus Mundus+ Program, University of Tartu, Estonia 2015 Lecturer at the Spring School on Humanitarian Action, NOHA, ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary 2013- Visiting Professor, Faculty of State and Economics, Ukrainian Free University, by now Munich 2010 Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VI 2005 Senior Fellow, Oxford College Hospitality Scheme, Queen’s College, Oxford University 2000 Visiting Professor, the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, University of Cincinnati, OH 2000 Visiting Professor, Center for International and Comparative Law, University of Baltimore 2000 Visiting Professor, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VI 1996 Fulbright Senior Scholar, Urban and Morgan Institute for Human Rights, University of Cincinnati, OH Professional activity Member of the Ukrainian Association of International Law. President of the Ukrainian Fulbright Association (2006-2011). Research subject Public International Law, Ukraine and International Human Rights, Genocide Studies. Publications Books Ukraine and International Human Rights: Theory and Practice. - K.: KM ACADEMIA, 2007. - 426 p. (in Ukrainian) Ukraine in the International System for Human Rights Protection. - K.: KM ACADEMIA, 2000. - 261 p. http://www.ekmair.ukma.edu.ua/handle/123456789/2723 (in Ukrainian) Textbooks and manuals International Law: Textbook. – Kyiv: Yurinkom Inter, 2011. – 382 p. (in Ukrainian) Human Rights // Foundations of Democracy: Textbook /Ed. A. Kolodiy. – Lviv: Astroliabiya, 2009. – P. 267-295. (in co-authoship) (in Ukrainian) Public International Law: Textbook — K.: Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Publishing House, 2003. — 307 p. (in Ukrainian) Articles and chapters (selected) Total over 100 2020 Individual and Collective Intent in the Crime of Genocide (on the example of the Holodomor-Genocide against the Ukrainian Nation) // Actual Problems of International Relations. – 2020. – Vol. 145. – P. 54-61 Міжнародні договори як частина законодавства України / М. Антонович // «Reformen des ukrainischen Rechts: Aktuelle Entwicklungen Eröffnungsveranstaltung des Zentrums für osteuropäisches Recht Im Rahmen der Konferenz der Deutsch-Ukrainischen Juristenvereinigung (DUJV e.V.)"Реформи українського законодавства: сучасний розвиток" в рамках щорічних Зборів Німецько-українського об’єднання юристів.: Тези доповідей Міжнародного симпозіуму (4. Dezember 2020, 4 грудня 2020 р.) / Deutsch-Ukrainischen Juristenvereinigung e.V. (DUJV). – Universität Graz, Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät, 2020. https://www.dujv.de/app/download/10266530/tagungsband_DUJV.pdf 2019 Women and Children as Victims of Genocidal Acts in the Holodomor against the Ukrainian Nation // Women and Holodomor-Genocide: Victims, Survivors, Perpetrators. Proceedings of the Second Symposium Commemorating the 85th Anniversary of the Holodomor-Genocide, October 5, 2018. / Ed. by Victoria A. Malko. – Fresno, CA: The Press at California State University, Fresno. Russia and the European Court of Human Rights: The Strasbourg Effect, edited by Lauri Mälksoo, Wolfgang Benedek, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2018: Book Review // Journal of Baltic Studies. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/9piFC3KY7hxzQtN54n6w/full?target=10.108 0/01629778.2019.1639369; Taylor & Francis Specific Intent (dolus specialis) in the Armenian Genocide, the Holodomor and the Holocaust: comparative analysis // NaUKMA Research Papers. Law. – 2019. – Vol. 3. – P. 19-25. http://ekmair.ukma.edu.ua/handle/123456789/16271 Internationally Recognized Fair Trial Standards: International and Comparative Perspectives // Wissenschaftliches Sammelwerk der Ukrainischen Freien Universitat. – 2018/2019. – Band 23. – P. 93-103). 2018 Application of the Rule of Law Principle by International Ad Hoc Criminal Tribunals // Wissenschaftliches Sammelwerk der Ukrainischen Freien Universitat. – 2017/2018. – Band 22. – P.192-199). Victims of genocides in the first half of the 20th century: comparative and legal analysis // Proceedings of the International Scientific-Educational Working Conference “Genocide-Holodomor 1932-1933: The Losses of the Ukrainian Nation”(October 4, 2016, Kyiv). – Drohobych: National Museum “Holodomor Victims Memorial”, 2018. – P. 71-73. 2017 Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court Concerning a Crime of Aggression // Academic Notes of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. – 2017. – Vol. 193. – P. 67-71 (in Ukrainian). 2016 Implementation of International Human Rights Norms by USA Courts // A Quarter Century of Ukrainian-American Friendship: an Experience Worth Promoting: Collection of the materials of III Multidisciplinary Conference on American Studies / Lviv: PAIC Publisher, 2016. – P. 80-87. 2015 Legal Accountability for the Holodomor-Genocide of 1932–1933 (Great Famine) in Ukraine // Kyiv-Mohyla Law and Politics Journal. – 2015. - № 1. – P. 159-176. http://kmlpj.ukma.edu.ua/article/view/52663 The Right to Humanitarian Assistance during an Armed Conflict and Responsibility for its Violation under International Law // Academic Notes of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. – 2015. – Vol. 168, Legal Studies. – P. 93 – 97 (in Ukrainian). 2014 Book Review: Maria Popova, "Politicized Justice in Emerging Democracies: A Study of Courts in Russia and Ukraine.” Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 197p. / Myroslava Antonovych // The East / West Journal of Ukrainian Studies. – 2014 Available at http://www.ekmair.ukma.edu.ua/handle/123456789/6942 2013 Implementation of International Human Rights Instruments by National Courts // Basic Concepts of Public International Law: Monism and Dualism / Ed. by Marko Novaković – Belgrade, 2013. – P. 408-436. http://www.ekmair.ukma.edu.ua/bitstream/handle/123456789/4230/Antonovych_I mplementation_of_International_Human.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y 2012 The 1932-1933 Holodomor in Ukraine within the Context of the Soviet Genocide against the Ukrainian Nation // The Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine as a Crime of Genocide under International Law / Ed. by Volodymyr Vasylenko and Myroslava Antonovych. – Kyiv: Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Publisher, 2012. – P. 74- 94. 2011 The Holodomor as Genocide // Ukrainian Week. – 2011. – № 15. – P. 42-43. http://ukrainianweek.com/History/21538 Elements of the Crime of Genocide in the 1932-1933 Holodomor in Ukraine under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court // Academic Notes of Kyiv- Mohyla Academy. – 2011. – Vol. 116: Legal Studies. – P. 47-51. (in Ukrainian) http://www.ekmair.ukma.edu.ua/handle/123456789/2757?show=full 2010 The Problem of Denial of the Holodomor Crime in Ukraine and Other Genocides of the XX-XXI Centuries // Academic Notes of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. – 2010. – Vol. 103: Legal Studies. – P. 21-24. (in Ukrainian) http://www.ekmair.ukma.edu.ua/bitstream/handle/123456789/3837/Antonovych_Pr oblema_zaperechennia.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Ukrainian Fulbright Association in Civic Society Development in Ukraine (marking the Association’s tenth anniversary) // Ukraine and the World: Yearning for Changes. – Kyiv: Dukh I Litera, 2010. – P. 9-12. (in Ukrainian) http://www.ekmair.ukma.edu.ua/handle/123456789/1106 2009 Legal Aspects of the 1932-1933 Holodomor: Ukrainian and Russian Approaches // The Ukrainian Quarterly. – 2009. – Vol. LXV, No. 4. – P. 332-343. Accountability for Human Rights Violations by Soviet and Other Communist Regimes and the Position of the Council of Europe // Contemporary Ukraine on the cultural
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