The "Barristers" Law Firm served as a partner for the international conference "THE HOLOCAUST AND INTERNATIONAL LAW" (HOLOCAUST AND INTERNATIONAL LAW)
The “Barristers” Law Firm served as a partner for the international conference “HOLOCAUST AND INTERNATIONAL LAW,” which was organized by the Ukrainian Association of International Law, the Odessa Holocaust Museum, and the Foundation for the Support of Fundamental Research on October 25–26, 2018, at the Odessa House of Scientists. The conference was dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, on December 9, 1948.
Scientific Advisor at Barristers Law Firm, Deputy Coordinator of the Southern Regional Center of the Ukrainian Association of International Law, Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor Mykola Pashkovsky delivered a presentation at the conference titled “The Role of National Courts in the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.”
The conference was attended by renowned experts in the field of international law and attorneys, including the First Vice President of the Ukrainian Association of International Law, President of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, Mykola Gnativsky, Associate Professor at the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv; Yana Elkin, representative of the American Jewish Distribution Committee; Pavlo Kozlenko, Director of the Holocaust Museum in Odesa; Adam Regik, attorney and historian at the University of Warsaw; Professor Boris Babin, Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea; Professor Myroslava Antonovych, Head of the Center for International Human Rights and Associate Professor in the Department of International and European Law at the Law Faculty of the National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy," Professor Myroslava Antonovych; Chief of Staff of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia and Coordinator of the Center for Legal Studies on the Armenian Genocide (Yerevan, Armenia); Vladimir Vardanyan, Executive Director of the International Analytical Center “Constitutional Culture” and member of the Board of Trustees of the Armenian Genocide Museum; Gleb Bogush, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the National Research University Higher School of Economics; Mykhailo Baimuratov, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Legislation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and Professor; Natalia Krestovska, Head of the Department of Theory and History of State and Law at the International Humanitarian University (Odesa) and Professor; attorney, Olena Prokopshyna, member of the “April 10” civil society organization; Dina Porat, chief historian at Yad Vashem and director of the Kantor Center at Tel Aviv University; and Darina Dvornichenko, Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Module “The EU as a Global Actor and Agent of Change,” Associate Professor in the Department of International and Criminal Law at KIMEP University (Almaty, Kazakhstan) Serhiy Sayapin, expert at the Foundation for the Support of Fundamental Research; Lyudmyla Pashkovska, professor in the Department of Philosophy and Methodology of Knowledge at I. I. Mechnikov Odessa National University; Oksana Dovgopolova, Chair of the Odesa Regional Roma Congress Serhiy Ieromoshkin, Professor in the Department of International and European Law at the National University “Odesa Law Academy,” Coordinator of the Southern Regional Center of the Ukrainian Association of International Law Timur Korotkyi, Natalia Handel, Associate Professor at the Department of International and European Law at the National University “Odessa Law Academy” and expert at the Foundation for the Support of Fundamental Research, as well as other researchers and practicing lawyers.
