Maksym Vishchyk
@Maks_Vishchyk
About/Bio
Maksym Vishchyk works as a Legal Advisor with Global Rights Compliance Foundation and specializes in public international law, with a focus on international humanitarian, criminal, and human rights law. In recent years, he has been involved in various projects aimed at strengthening Ukraine’s capacity to investigate and prosecute atrocity crimes, including Mobile Justice Teams assisting current conflict-related investigations. Maksym is a PhD student and lecturer in international law at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
Recently Published
Governments’ Démarche against the ECtHR: Room for Discussion or Threats to Judicial Integrity
Recently, the leaders of nine European states, out of 46 Council of Europe members, issued a joint statement calling for a fundamental revision of the interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights (‘ECHR’) on immigration issues. Initially pioneered by Italy and Denmark, and supported by Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland, the…
Nationality as the basis of protected status under Geneva Convention IV: A mysterious case of mistaken death
For a civilian caught up in the crossfire of an international armed conflict, determining protected status under international humanitarian law (‘IHL’) represents more than a theoretical exercise of distant intellectualisation by jurists. It takes centre stage in the trenches of suffering, and is arbiter in deciding who receives the full protection of the Fourth Geneva Convention (‘GC IV’)…
Occupation of Minds: IHL Response to Russian Education Policies in the Occupied Ukrainian Territories
October 12, 2022
Maksym Vishchyk
Into the eighth month of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia has rushed to implement its plan to annex and assimilate newly occupied southern-eastern regions of Ukraine via sham referenda and attempted absorption of territories through respective domestic laws. The areas in question include parts of the Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and…
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Nationality as the basis of protected status under Geneva Convention IV: A mysterious case of mistaken death
For a civilian caught up in the crossfire of an international armed conflict, determining protected status under international humanitarian law (‘IHL’) represents more than a theoretical exercise of distant intellectualisation by jurists. It takes centre stage in the trenches of suffering, and is arbiter in deciding who receives the full protection of the Fourth Geneva Convention (‘GC IV’)…
Crimean Tatars: Eight Years of Anything but Marginal Resistance
On 3 March 2022, Professor Alain Pellet published a reflection on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, drawing parallels to the 2014 occupation of Crimea. With the eighth anniversary of the Crimean ‘referendum’ approaching, this post will respond to Prof. Pellet’s thoughts on the Crimean Tatars and their ‘marginal’, according to Prof. Pellet, reaction to Russia’s activities in Crimea…
Occupation of Minds: IHL Response to Russian Education Policies in the Occupied Ukrainian Territories
October 12, 2022
Maksym Vishchyk
Into the eighth month of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia has rushed to implement its plan to annex and assimilate newly occupied southern-eastern regions of Ukraine via sham referenda and attempted absorption of territories through respective domestic laws. The areas in question include parts of the Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and…