Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the School of Law had entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv (Shevchenko) and helped establish the School’s American Common Law Center. Since 2013, the Common Law Center has provided academic services at Shevchenko, including professional workshops.
This past spring, professor Michael Scharf and adjunct professor Alek El Kamhawy reengaged Shevchenko by designing and co-teaching a hybrid course on international criminal law. While Scharf and El Kamhawy taught over Zoom, they were assisted by adjunct professor Peter Steciuk, a former U.S. Department of Justice official who is currently living in Kyiv. In addition, several federal prosecutors and govern