Polygraphology in the Mechanism of Protecting Human Rights and Freedoms: Current Challenges, International Standards and Legal Practice

September 22, 2026

Kharkiv / hybrid

10:00 – 13:00 (EEST)


Organizers: Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Department of Criminalistics; All-Ukrainian Association of Polygraph Examiners; National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, V.V. Stashys Research Institute for the Study of Crime Problems, National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine.

Main thematic areas:
– International and domestic experience with the use of polygraphs in the system for protecting human rights and freedoms;
– Constitutional and legal guarantees of human rights in the use of polygraphs: the limits of voluntariness and protection against self-incrimination;
– Individual Rights in Criminal Proceedings Under Martial Law: Procedural Safeguards in the Use of Polygraphs;
– The scientific, methodological, and ethical-deontological foundations of polygraphology as a safeguard of the subject’s rights;
– Evidence-Based Law and Standards of Individual Protection: The Procedural Status of Polygraph Test Results in Judicial Proceedings;
– Human Rights in the National Security and Defense System: The Polygraph in Screening and Vetting Procedures;
– Legal representation to protect an individual’s rights against the unlawful or manipulative use of a polygraph during a pretrial investigation and court proceedings;
– European human rights standards and the practice of the European Court of Human Rights regarding the admissibility of polygraph use;
– The Right to Privacy in the Digital Age: AI-Based Polygraph Testing, Neuroimaging, and the Limits of Intrusion into Private Life;
– Forensic psychological evaluation using a polygraph as evidence in legal proceedings and as a tool for protecting human rights;
– Protection of human rights in the context of corporate relations and human resources policy: the preventive use of polygraphs;
– Trends and Prospects for the Development of Polygraphology within the Framework of Human Rights Protection and Forensic Science in the Context of War and the Digitalization of Society.

Moderator

Viktor Shevchuk

Head of the Department of Criminalistics at the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Doctor of Law, Professor, Chair of the Scientific and Methodological Council of the All-Ukrainian Association of Polygraph Examiners, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine, polygraph examiner since 2017, author of over 700 scholarly works on criminalistics, forensic science, legal psychology, and polygraphology (Kharkiv, Ukraine)

Speakers

Prominent legal experts and leaders of Ukraine and the world

Snieguolė Matulienė

President of the Lithuanian Society of Criminologists, Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor at the Academy of Public Security, Mykolas Romeris University (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Jan Widacki

Professor at the Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University (Poland), Dean of the Faculty of Law, Administration, and International Relations, member of the American Polygraph Association, and editor-in-chief of the journal "European Polygraph" (Krakow, Poland)

Oksana Stevenson

Vice President of Axciton Systems Inc., member of the American Polygraph Association (APA) (Houston, USA)

Marcin Golaszewski

President of the Polish Association for Polygraph Research (PTBP), forensic polygraph examiner at the District Court in Warsaw, member of the American Polygraph Association (APA); Doctor of Social Sciences in the field of legal studies (Warsaw, Poland)

Volodymyr Zhuravel

President of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine; Full Member (Academician) of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine; Doctor of Law; Professor; Professor in the Department of Criminalistics at the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University; author of over 500 scholarly works on criminalistics, forensic science, and legal psychology (Kharkiv, Ukraine)

Tatiana Morozova

President of the All-Ukrainian Association of Polygraph Examiners, Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Professor, Senior Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Psychological Research of the Kyiv Research Institute of Forensic Expertise under the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, polygraph examiner since 2003, a certified forensic expert in specialty 14.1 “Psychological Research” with the right to conduct forensic psychological examinations using a computerized polygraph (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Mykola Pogoretsky

First Vice Rector of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Doctor of Law, Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Oleksandr Morozov

Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, Honorary Academician of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, author of over 200 scientific works in psychology, psychiatry, and polygraphology, including the well-known monographs: “Psychological Warfare,” “Pathopsychological Analysis of Personality in Law Enforcement Practice,” “Political Psychiatry,” and author of in-depth scientific works on current issues in polygraph application (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Oleksandr Motlyakh

Doctor of Law, professor, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine, polygraph examiner, author of over 300 scholarly works on criminalistics, forensic examination, polygraphology—including well-known study guides, textbooks, monographs, and other scholarly and educational works on the use of the polygraph in criminal proceedings, judicial proceedings, and law enforcement (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Svitlana Lasunova

Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, forensic expert, polygraph examiner since 2015, scientific secretary of the Odesa Research Institute of Forensic Expertise of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, chair of the Forensic Expert Council of the All-Ukrainian Association of Polygraph Examiners (Odesa, Ukraine)

Vitaliy Sokolkin

Candidate of Legal Sciences, Deputy Head of a Division at the Main Investigative Directorate of the State Bureau of Investigations, polygraph examiner since 2018 (I.I. Mechnikov National University, VAP), (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Tatiana Tamakova

Head of the Psychological Research Laboratory at the Kyiv Research Institute of Forensic Expertise of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine; polygraph examiner since 2021; certified forensic expert (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Anton Shmukin

Head of the Laboratory of Psychological, Linguistic, and Other Research at the Dnipro Research Institute of Forensic Expertise (Dnipro NDISE); certified forensic expert in specialty 14.1; polygraph examiner since 2023 (I.I. Mechnikov National University, VAP) (Dnipro, Ukraine)

Tatiana Yegorova

Lead Forensic Expert at the Poltava Branch of the National Scientific Center “M. S. Bokarius Institute of Forensic Expertise” of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, Poltava, Ukraine

Inna Kolesnikova

Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor in the Department of Criminalistics at the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, polygraph examiner since 2025 (I.I. Mechnikov National University, VAP), member of the Scientific and Methodological Council of the All-Ukrainian Association of Polygraph Examiners, developer of the program and training course “Polygraphology for Lawyers” (Kharkiv, Ukraine)

Tetiana Kharina

Lead forensic expert at the National Scientific Center “M. S. Bokarius Institute of Forensic Expertise”; has been working as a forensic expert since 2018 and as a polygraph examiner since 2018 (I. I. Mechnikov Odessa National University, VAP), (Ukraine, Kharkiv)