Olena Kharytonova

PhD, Associate Professor, Criminal Law Department n. 1, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University.

OSCE Legal Expert. Lecturer/trainer of the projects «Helping Law Schools Promote Human Rights», Summer School «Rule of Law and Constitutionalism», Academic Exchange Program for Criminal Law of the OSCE PCU. Program Expert «New Justice» in USAID. A working member of CRIMHUM – Modernisation of Master Programmes in Belarus&Ukraine – Erasmus+. Program Coordinator of the Kharkiv International Legal Forum. Member of the working group on gender audit of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

Olena specializes in criminal law epistemological issues and methodology of criminal law science, gender equality, gender-based violence, criminal law historiography. Olena is a member of international research group at Faculty of Law and Administration of the Adam Mickiewich University in Poznan (2018/2019); a participant and event manager of international and national academic conferences; a skilled legislative drafter with proven record of legislative research and drafting in the Ukrainian Parliament; a member of analytic groups for making the legal opinions on requests of relevant authorities.

Olena has an extensive experience in developing, implementing and teaching of university courses “Criminal Law Issues in the ECHR Practice”, “Main Trends of Modern Criminal Law”, “Gender Studies for Future Lawyers”.

Among Olena’s projects are the gender expertise of the Central Election Commission’s electronic workflow system, a series of trainings on the gender component of the constitutional complaint within the OSCE project “Access to Constitutional Justice”, training course “Gender Equality and Women’s Rights” within the project of the “Association of Women’s Lawyers of Ukraine “JurFem” and National Bar Association of Ukraine, training course “How to Teach Gender in Alma Mater?” with “Association of Women’s Lawyers of Ukraine “JurFem”, Joint Certificate Program “Practical Course on the Rule of Law” of Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University and the University of South Carolina, USA.

Columnist of the Internet resource “Women are 50% of Ukraine’s success”. Co-editor of the video blog “Dialogues pro with Olena Kharytonova and Nataliya Maslak”.

A Member of the International Association of Penal Law, Ukrainian Criminal Law Association, Kharkiv Law Society and Association of Women’s Lawyers of Ukraine “JurFem”.