Olga Butkevych

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Olga Butkevych, doctor of international law, is President of the Ukrainian Association of International Law, Chief Editor of the quarterly “Ukrainian Journal of International Law,” and Chaired Professor of Law at Kyiv’s National University of Taras Shevchenko.

Professor Butkevych served as Member of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities in respect of Ukraine (in 2010-2012 and 2018-2021). From 2022, she has been member of the Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.

Her main fields of academic activity are history of international law, international humanitarian law, law of international armed conflicts, international human rights law, issues of modern international law (law of international community), international treaty law and correlation between international and municipal legal systems.