Recently, the State Tax University held a guest lecture on the topic: “Universality and Problems of National Criminal Jurisdiction over International Crimes”. The lecturer was Liudmila Ulyashyna, Chair of the Senate, Head of the Center for Constitutionalism and Human Rights of the European Humanities University (Vilnius, Lithuania).
Higher students and teachers of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Law of the State Tax University gathered to listen to the lecture. The meeting was organized by the Department of International Law and Law of the European Union.
At the beginning of the lecture, Liudmila Ulyashyna emphasized that to effectively respect and ensure individual, states must implement the necessary legislative and judicial measures at the national level. The current crisis of unpunished international crimes and the attempts to bridge gaps in national prosecution through extraterritorial means underscore the urgent need to strengthen effective investigation and accountability within national systems. There is a critical need to address omissions in the criminalization and prosecution of crimes that threaten the values and interests of the international community as a whole.
In the context of the topic, the lecturer examined the following issues:
- the concept of universality of human rights, according to which human rights apply to all individuals, regardless of nationality, culture or religion;
- the concept of universal jurisdiction, the legal and practical problems encountered in its application;
- domestic implementation as a means of preventing impunity and injustice; it explored how effective national laws and enforcement mechanisms can prevent impunity and promote justice for human rights violations;
- the interrelationships between universality, jurisdiction and national measures in the context of human rights were discussed.
The topic of the lecture and the lecturer herself aroused great interest in the audience, as evidenced by the questions of the students, which Ms. Liudmila answered with pleasure. After a lively discussion of the topic of the lecture, the students of the National Institute of Law thanked the lecturer for the knowledge gained, expressing their hope for the opportunity to listen to her lectures in the near future.
We look forward to new lectures!
