SERHIY HOLOVATY CURRENT POSITION: Member of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine; President, Ukrainian Legal Foundation; OFFICES HELD: Member of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament of Ukraine) since 1990. He has been Chairman of the Constitutional Law Sub-Committee of the Legal Affairs Committee and of the Sub-Committee on the implementation of international standards and on parliamentary control for the execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary Minister of Justice of Ukraine from Sept. 1995 to Aug. 1997 and from Oct. 2005 to Aug. 2006 EDUCATION: Ph.D. in Public International Law, Taras Shevchenko National University, Kyiv ACADEMIC POSITIONS: International Law Lecturer at the Taras Shevchenko National University, Kyiv; Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Law School of Yale University, USA; Resident Scholar at the Max Planck Institute of International Comparative Law, Heidelberg; member of the International Association of Constitutional Law ADDITIONAL PUBLIC POSITIONS: Member of PACE since 1998 and Vice-President of PACE since October 2006 Chairman of PACE committees: Monitoring Committee since Jan 2008; Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (Jan 2005-Jan 2006); Committee on Rules of Procedure and Immunities (Jan 2002-Jan 2005) Member of the Venice Commission (1995 – 2000 and February 2005 until present) Vice–President of the Venice Commission (1997-2000) President of the Ukrainian Legal Foundation since 1992 Board Member of the Ukrainian Association of International Law since 1999 Member of the World Bank External Advisory Board on Governance and Anticorruption in the Europe and Central Asia Region (2000 – 2004) 2 Member of the Council on National Security (1996 – 1997) and Defense of Ukraine (Jan. – Sept. 2006) President of the Association of Ukrainian Lawyers (1990 – 1995) President of the World Congress of Ukrainian Lawyers (1992 – 1994) PRINCIPAL PUBLICATIONS: Author of a tree-volume book: Rule of Law (2006) Author or co-author of a number of monographs: The 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone in World Oceans ; Protection of the Marine Environment: Legal issues ; Mediterranean Sea: Legal and Economic Issues; Ukrainian SSR in International Relations – Author of a number of articles, including: Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights: Peculiarities of National Execution (with the Melnychenko v. Ukraine judgment taken as an example) (2005); Abolition of the death penalty in Ukraine – difficulties real or imagined? (1999); New Possibilities for the Protection of Human Rights in Ukraine ( 1999); Freedom of Conscience in Ukraine and the Violation of Human Rights Editor in Chief of : The Constitution of Independent Ukraine ( three-volume series, 1995-2006); Opening of the Legal Year in Ukraine (1995); International Symposium on the Constitution of Independent Ukraine (1992) .