Best Practices for Legislatures in Times of Crisis: Perspectives from Ukraine
Thursday, June 16, 2022 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT / 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM EEST
The organizers of the Seventh International Conference on Legislation and Law Reform cordially invite you to attend a free, not-to-be missed legislative webinar hosted in cooperation with the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and USAID.
The webinar will focus on how the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine has operated during the Russia-Ukraine war and will feature two speakers from the Verkhovna Rada.
The webinar will feature speaker presentations and a question and answer session.
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Co-hosted by Penn Carey Law of the University of Pennsylvania
Webinar Speakers
Olga Sovgyrya
Olga Sovgyrya is a Member of Parliament of Ukraine and the Verkhovna Rada Representative in the Constitutional Court of Ukraine. Ms. Sovgyrya is a Doctor of Law, Associate Professor, Professor of the Constitutional Law Department, Faculty of Law, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, and is the author of more than 120 works on Constitutional Law and Constitutional Procedural Law.
Artem Yanchuk
Artem Yanchuk is Deputy Chief of Staff of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. He has previously worked as an advisor to the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Mr. Yanchuk is a Professor, Doctor of Law, and author and co-author of about 150 publications. He has more than 10 years of civil service experience and has completed the Open World Program.
Moderated By:
William W. Burke-White
PROFESSOR OF LAW
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, USA
Professor William Burke-White is an international lawyer and political scientist and professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Professor Burke-White is a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution and a frequent author on the relationships between law and politics in international affairs. He was the inaugural director of Penn’s Perry World House, the University’s interdisciplinary international affairs institute, and he formerly served in the Obama Administration on the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff. He is a graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Law School and he holds a doctorate in international relations from Cambridge University where he was a Fulbright Scholar. Professor Burke-White possesses special expertise on Russia and Eastern Europe.