Ihor Kozych

 

Ihor  Kozych

Doctor of Law, Associate Professor

Head of the Department of Policy in the Fight against Crime and criminal law.

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Education, academic degree, academic title

1996-2001 – Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, specialty “Law,” qualification “Lawyer.”

2001-2005 – postgraduate studies, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (full-time).

2012 – candidate of legal sciences, specialty 12.00.08 – criminal law and criminology; penal law.

2015 – Associate Professor of the Department of Criminal Law.

2021 – Doctor of Laws, specialty 12.00.08 “Criminal law and criminology; criminal law.”

2022-present – head of the Department of Policy in the fight against crime and criminal law.

Jobs, professional experience

After graduating from Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (2001), he was accepted as the head of the Codification and Reference Bureau of the Law Institute and, part-time, as an assistant at the Department of Criminal Law and Procedure at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University.

Since 2009, he has been a senior lecturer at the Department of Criminal Law of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, as well as a senior lecturer at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology of the Precarpathian Law Institute of LvDUVS (part-time).

Since 2013 – in the position of associate professor of the Department of Criminal Law, and since 2015 – associate professor of the Department of Criminal Law.

Since 2022 – head of the Department of Policy in the Fight against Crime and criminal law of Educational Scientific Law Institute of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University.

Research activities

The topic of the candidate’s thesis is “Criminal policy in the field of combating crimes committed with the use of violence.” Dissertation under the supervision of Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor P. L. Fries. She defended in 2012 at the specialized council of the Lviv State University of Internal Affairs (Lviv).

The topic of the doctoral dissertation “Functions of criminal law policy” Dissertation under the supervision of the Doctor of legal sciences, Professor P. L. Fries. She defended in 2021 in the Institute of State and Law specialized council named after V.M. Koretsky of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Author of more than 120 scientific and scientific-methodical publications, including co-author of 2 collective monographs.

Provides training for graduate students.

Under the leadership of Kozych, I.V.’s thesis for the Doctor of Philosophy degree was defended by Yu.V. Leka. On the topic “Motive in criminal law.”

Links to the profile of scientific-metric databases

Link to profile in ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8746-1154

Scopus profile link: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57223180327

Organizational activities

Provides the publishing sphere of the educational and scientific legal institute.

Performs the duties of the deputy head of the Department of Criminal Law.

Member of the editorial board of the specialized scientific publication “Actual problems of improving the current legislation of Ukraine” (published by Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University), the academic journal of the Precarpathian National University “Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University.”

Draws considerable attention to raising the professional level, acquiring and sharing experience. For many years, he has been a member of the organizing committee of the international scientific conference “Politics in the fight against crime” and annually participates in professional international and all-Ukrainian meetings devoted to the problems of criminal law and criminal law policy.

In 2017, he completed an internship at the Lviv State University of Internal Affairs on the general topic “Functions and tasks of criminal law policy.”

Since 2013 – a jury member, and since 2016 – the jury chairman of the III stage of the All-Ukrainian Student Olympiad in Law (Ivano-Frankivsk region).

In 2019, he was the deputy chairman of the jury of the IV stage of the All-Ukrainian Student Olympiad in Law (Ivano-Frankivsk), a member of the jury of the All-Ukrainian Student Tournament of Young Jurists (Rivne).

In 2020, he completed the course “DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS IN THE GLOBAL SPACE” provided by ITArts through the Prometheus open online course platform.