The Criminal Law Component in the Education of Future Lawyers
September 24, 2026
Kharkiv / online
10:00 – 13:00 (EEST)
This panel is dedicated to approaches and methods for improving the educational process for future lawyers.
The purpose of the discussion is to develop recommendations for improving and revising the curricula for criminal law courses, taking into account existing scientific and pedagogical experience, the views of legal practitioners, and Ukraine’s European and Euro-Atlantic integration.
Moderator
Ruslan Orlovsky
Doctor of Law, Professor, Chair of the Department of Criminal Law at the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University
Speakers
Prominent legal experts and leaders of Ukraine and the world
Volodymyr Burdin
Dean of the Faculty of Law, Professor, Professor in the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
Didactic Features of Teaching Criminal Law Today
Hans-Joachim Schramm
Since 2012 Professor of Business Law at the University of Applied Sciences in Wismar and member of staff at Ostinstitut there. 2000 - 2010 Research assistant at the University of Bremen, Chair of Prof Rolf Knieper, and the GIZ. Numerous assignments as a short-term legal expert for business law in the successor states of the Soviet Union. 1997 - 1999 Employee of the Ukraine-European Policy and Legal Advise Centre (UEPLAC) Kyiv
Legal education in Germany with a focus on criminal law
Denis Azarov
Associate Professor, Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, First Vice President of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Teaching Criminal Law: Where to Start and What to Aim For?
Lyubov Krupnova
Professor of Law, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine, Deputy Chair of the Higher Qualification and Disciplinary Commission of the Bar
Criminal Law Thinking for Future Lawyers: How to Teach Them to Deal with Risks, Evidence, and Liability
Natalia Gutorova
Professor in the Department of Criminal Law and Criminal Law Disciplines at the Poltava Law Institute of the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University; Academician of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine
Traditions and Innovations in the Criminal Law Component of the Modern Lawyer's Practice