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Amendments to the Law on sports broadcast rights: the consequences will be felt this year

Yevhenii Promskyi, a member of the Council of the UBA’s Committee on Sport Law, an assistant attorney at ARES Law Firm, has predicted the consequences of the adoption of Law No. 2563-IX, which fundamentally changes the approach to the realization of sports broadcast rights in Ukraine.

An introduction to the UBA’s International Participants: Martin Whitehorn

Today, we are happy to introduce one more of our international participants, Martin Whitehorn. Martin is a property solicitor at Julie West Solicitors and national representative for Surrey Junior Lawyers Division, where he works with other junior lawyers groups.

An introduction to the UBA’s International Participants: Toby Cadman

To tell about lawyers who joined the UBA, we are starting a series of introduction articles with our International participants.

We have a dream: why the world needs a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine, – the UBA Executive Director Inna Liniova

Article by: Inna Liniova, Executive Director of the Ukrainian Bar Association for Euromaidan Press

”There are more and more signs that the intention, according to Putin, is to completely destroy Ukrainians” – Executive director of the IBA Mark Ellis

The executive director of the International Bar Association, Mark Ellis, cooperated with the international tribunals on the issues of Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and initiated a program to support judges in Iraq. He also initiated the creation of the mobile application “eyeWitness to Atrocities”, thanks to which it is possible to store evidence of war crimes. 

”If we had ratified the Rome Statute, the International Criminal Court would have already formulated an indictment against Putin.” Interview with ex-judge of the Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Volodymyr Vasylenko

Babel journalist Oksana Kovalenko spoke with Vasylenko about his experience working at the International Tribunal, why it is important to ratify the Rome Statute, how to bring Putin to justice, and whether Lukashenko will be held accountable for taking part in aggression.

Exclusion of Russia from the United Nations Security Council

Expert Opinion (empowered by the UJBL)

WHY RUSSIA SHOULD BE EXCLUDED?

Piercing the Immunity Protecting Russian Central Bank Assets: Not Yet?

Collective Responsibility: Widening the Target for Sanctions Arising from the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Lauma Paegļkalna (Judge, Supreme Court of Latvia) and Richard Humphreys (Visiting Scholar, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast, Ireland) have written a paper «Collective Responsibility: Widening the Target for Sanctions Arising from the Russian Invasion of Ukraine».

Attys Filling Need For Legal Assistance To Ukrainian Refugees

Resource Law360 Pulse published an article on willingness of lawyers from around the world to provide legal assistance to refugees from Ukraine, and on how Ukrainian and international legal organizations take on projects such as fundraising, advocacy and proper documentation of war crimes.