This event is held with grant support from the National Research Foundation of Ukraine within Project No. 2025.07/0244 “Legal regulation of non-contractual liability in the context of adapting Ukrainian legislation to EU law” (state registration number 0126U002630). The Project is implemented at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University. The views expressed by the participants at the event may not reflect those of the National Research Foundation of Ukraine and are the sole responsibility of their authors.

Languages: Ukrainian and English (no interpretation)

The rapid development of digital technologies, the emergence of artificial intelligence systems, the evolution of products after they have been placed on the market, the growing complexity of corporate relations, and new forms of abuse of judicial procedures raise questions for the law of non-contractual liability to which traditional legal concepts do not always provide sufficiently convincing answers. At the same time, for Ukraine these challenges have an additional dimension: the adaptation of private law to European Union law and the need to take contemporary European approaches into account in the process of legal reform.

The workshop will bring together Ukrainian and European academics and practitioners to discuss how the grounds and limits of non-contractual liability are changing under the influence of new technological, economic, and social risks. The discussion will focus on liability for harm related to the use of artificial intelligence, criteria for defectiveness in evolving products, the legal significance of safety warnings, the liability of majority shareholders and company directors, as well as European regulation of SLAPPs. The aim is to identify which elements of the European experience may be relevant for the further development of Ukrainian non-contractual liability law.

Programme

10:00 – 10:05 Tetiana Tsuvina – Opening Remarks
Project Lead, “Legal regulation of non-contractual liability in the context of adapting Ukrainian legislation to EU law”

10:05 – 10:25 Silvia Martinelli
Lawyer and Postdoctoral Researcher in Private Law, University of Bayreuth (Bayreuth, Germany)
“From AI to Liability: Non-Contractual Liability in Europe and Italy”

10:25 – 10:45 Nataliia Filatova-Bilous
PhD in Law, Associate Professor at the Department of Civil Procedure, Arbitration and Private International Law and Leading Specialist at the Centre for Law, Ethics and Digital Technologies, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University (Ukraine); attorney-at-law; Head of the Interdisciplinary Research Hub on European Fundamental Values and Digitalisation within the Project “European Fundamental Values in the Digital Era” (101085385 – EFVDE – ERASMUS-JMO-2022-HEI-TCH-RSCH), Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence
“Liability for Harm Caused in Connection with the Use of AI: Another Reason to Reconsider Domestic Approaches to the Concept of the Preconditions of Tort Liability”

10:45 – 11:05 Ricardo Pazos
PhD in Law (University of Santiago de Compostela, 2017) with a dissertation on unfair terms in consumer contracts. In July 2017 he was granted a postdoctoral scholarship by the Xunta de Galicia (government of the Spanish region of Galicia), that resulted in research stays at the universities of Bayreuth (2017-2018) and Poitiers (2018-2019). In March 2020, he got a position as Assistant Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. In July 2022, he joined Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE), also in Madrid, where he currently is an Associate Professor, coordinator of its doctoral program on economic and business law, and director of its International Legal Research Center
“Assessing Defectiveness in Evolving Products under EU Law”

11:05 – 11:25 Bohdan Karnaukh
Doctor of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor at the Department of Civil Law, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University; member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Supreme Court; member of the Sectoral Expert Council in the Field of Knowledge “Law” of the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance
“Liability for Defective Products: The Legal Significance of Safety Warnings”

11:25 – 11:45 Inna Spasybo-Fatieieva
Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine; member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Supreme Court; member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine; Head of the Department of Civil Law, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University; ICAC arbitrator; founder of the NGO “Civilistic Platform”
“Non-Statutory Liability of Majority Shareholders and Company Directors”

11:45 – 12:05 Tetiana Tsuvina
Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Civil Procedure, Arbitration and Private International Law, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University; Project Lead of the NRFU Project “Legal regulation of non-contractual liability in the context of adapting Ukrainian legislation to EU law”; member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Supreme Court and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine; member of the negotiation groups on Ukraine’s accession to the EU under Chapters 23 “Judiciary and Fundamental Rights” and 24 “Justice, Freedom and Security”
“SLAPPs: EU Directive 2024/1069 and Prospects for Ukraine”

Each thematic block includes: 15 minutes – presentation, 5 minutes – questions and discussion.