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Svitlana Starosvit, PILAC Research Assistant, Fall 2014–Summer 2015, Spring 2016
Svitlana Starosvit is currently an S.J.D. student at Harvard Law School. She became a Research Assistant at PILAC in the fall of 2014. At PILAC, in addition to contributing to the project on international counterterrorism efforts, Svitlana researches operations in which state actors have engaged in various forms of extraterritorial lethal force in situations not rising to the level of armed conflict. She examines sources in English, Ukrainian, and Russian, and delves into questions of how these operations relate to various international legal frameworks.
Prior to joining the doctoral program at Harvard, Svitlana worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Ministry of Justice of Ukraine where she concentrated on issues of public international law and international dispute resolution. Svitlana also taught a course on International Investment Law and Arbitration in Kyiv National State University, named by Taras Shevchenko, International Relations Institute in 2014. Svitlana is a graduate of Kharkiv University of Humanities (B.A. in Foreign Languages, ’04), Central European University (M.A. in International Relations, ’05), Kyiv National State University (LL.B., ’10), and Harvard Law School (LL.M., ’13).