14–18 July 2025
Ukrainian International Criminal Justice Week
A series of events that gather lawyers, international relations specialists, representatives of civil society organizations, and state institutions. Conferences, lectures, workshops, webinars, presentations and discuss.
Focus theme
Justice Tomorrow. Action Today
International criminal justice is not just a trial and a verdict. It is a whole system of efforts by various actors that begins long before the accused enters the courtroom: from documenting crimes to international advocacy, from collecting testimonies to developing national mechanisms for prosecuting perpetrators, from protecting and supporting victims to ensuring their access to compensation and a sense of justice.
Society must understand: there is no such thing as immediate justice when it comes to international crimes. Investigating these crimes can take decades. The Nuremberg Tribunal delivered its verdict a year after the end of World War II, and some Nazi criminals are still being convicted today. The work of the tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda stretched over many years. Yet in many cases, many perpetrators were eventually brought to justice.
Despite everything already accomplished, much work still lies ahead for Ukraine and its civil society. How can a legal system be built in Ukraine to withstand the challenges of post-war justice? Should a special investigative body for international crimes be established? What should national legislation look like to ensure effective prosecution of perpetrators? How can the effectiveness of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression be guaranteed? Should we rely on the International Criminal Court, and what role might it play in the future? How can suspects or convicted individuals hiding from justice worldwide be tracked down?
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Acting Director of the Department of International Law, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine; Ambassador-at-Large, MFA of Ukraine; Agent of Ukraine before the International Court of Justice
Ukrainian lawyer and scholar, Judge of the European Court of Human Rights
PhD in Law, Member of the Expert Council of the Center for Civil Liberties, Professor of the Department of Criminal Law Policy and Criminal Law at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Executive Director of the Center for Civil Liberties
Vice President of the Ukrainian Association of International Law, Senior Research Fellow at the State Scientific Institution “Institute of Information, Security and Law of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine,” PhD in Law, Associate Professor
"Institute for the Study of Crime Problems of National Academy of Law Sciences of Ukraine, Research Fellow, PhD in Law "
Doctor of Law, Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Deputy Head of the Working Group on the Development of Criminal Law of the Legal Reform Commission under the President of Ukraine
President of the Ukrainian Association of International Law
former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, diplomat, expert in international policy
Senior Research Fellow at the State Scientific Institution “Institute of Information, Security and Law of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine,” expert at the NGO "Fund for the Support of Fundamental Research," PhD in Law, Associate Professor
Program Director of the Center for Civil Liberties
Head of the War Crimes Department at the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine
Head of the Research Laboratory for the Study of Human Trafficking Issues at Lviv State University of Internal Affairs, PhD in Law, Associate Professor
Head of the Organizational and Methodological Division of the Department for Combating Crimes Committed in the Context of Armed Conflict, Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine
Professor in Political Sciences, Researcher and Lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science, International Studies of the University of Warsaw
Defense Counsel, International Criminal Court/MICT, Associate Member, 9 Bedford Row, London, Visiting Professor, Leiden University/Lille University, ICCBA founding member and former vice-president
Professor in the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, President of the Polish group of the International Association of Criminal Law
Coordinator of Lawyers’ Work, Analyst at ULAG
PhD in Law, Senior Researcher, Expert at the NGO “Ukrainian Institute for the Future” (specializing in law enforcement and judicial system reform)
PhD in Law, Associate Professor at the Department of International Law, Educational and Scientific Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Lecturer and PhD Candidate, International and European Law Department, Faculty of Law, National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Legal Сounsel in Global Rights Compliance
Legal Analyst at the Center for Civil Liberties, PhD Candidate at the Department of International Law, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University
Professor of Public International Law at the University of Reading School of Law
PhD in Law, Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL), Legal Expert at the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ)
Judge of the Supreme Court of Ukraine
JD, LLM, Professor | School of Law, Senator Allen A. Sekt Endowed Chair in Law, Director, Kaiman Center for Int’l Criminal Justice & Holocaust Studies
American lawyer, academic and former politician who served as United States ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues in the Office of Global Criminal Justice
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