Faculty Members of the Department of Private International Law Featured in a Thematic Issue of Law of Ukraine

Faculty members of the Department of Private International Law at the Educational and Scientific Institute of International Relations contributed to Issue No. 4/2026 of the legal journal Law of Ukraine, devoted to Private International Law: Key Directions for Rethinking and Modernisation.

The thematic section was coordinated by Anatolii Dovgert — Doctor of Sciences in Law, Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, and Professor at the Department of Private International Law.

The general section features articles by Anatolii Dovgert (Doctor of Sciences in Law, Professor), Viktoriia Khomenko (PhD in Law), Yevhen Popko (PhD in Law, Associate Professor), and Oleksandr Biriukov (Doctor of Sciences in Law, Professor). Their studies address the recodification of private international law, the corporate mobility of legal entities, State participation in private-law relations involving a foreign element, and cross-border insolvency.

Specific areas of conflict of laws are examined by Oleksandr Vyhovskyi (Doctor of Sciences in Law, Professor), Bohdan Kryvolapov (PhD in Law, Associate Professor), and Viktor Kalakura (PhD in Law, Associate Professor). Their contributions focus on property and obligations in private international law, the protection of cultural property, and the development of private international law in family and succession matters.

The modernisation of international civil procedure is explored by Hennadii Tsirat (Doctor of Sciences in Law, Associate Professor) and Yuliia Cherniak (Doctor of Sciences in Law, Associate Professor).

The issue covers key directions in the modernisation of Ukrainian private international law — from its general foundations to specific areas of conflict of laws and international civil procedure.

We congratulate the authors on the publication of the issue and wish them further scholarly achievements and productive research.