Koval Iryna Fedorivna

Irina Fedorivna Koval

Doctor of Law, Associate Professor of the Department of Civil Law and Procedure

Lecturer’s profile: http://rang.donnu.edu.ua/?pg=kt&nu=134#search

Achievements:

  • In 2000 she graduated with honors from Donetsk National University in the speciality “Law”.
  • She has been working at the Faculty of Law since 2000 as an assistant, senior lecturer, associate professor, professor.
  • Since 2014 she has been acting, and since 2016 she has been the head of the Department of Civil Law and Procedure of Donetsk National University named after Vasyl Stus.
  • Since 2019 she has been the Dean of the Faculty of Law.
  • In 2005 she defended her candidate dissertation on “The right to business reputation and its extrajudicial protection against misuse” in the specialty 12.00.04 – commercial law; commercial and procedural law at the Institute of Economic and Legal Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
  • In 2008 I. Koval was awarded the academic title of an associate professor of Civil Law and Procedure.
  • In 2014 she defended her doctoral dissertation on “Economic and legal regulation of industrial property relations” in the specialty 12.00.04 – commercial law; commercial and procedural law at the Institute of Economic and Legal Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
  • In 2016 she completed an internship at the Scientific Consulting Community “Open Europe” (Slovak Republic).
  • She teaches the disciplines “Intellectual Property Law”, “Civil Law”, “Problems of Civil Law”. She has developed and teaches an author’s course “Commercialization of intellectual property rights” for masters of educational stage “Law”.
  • She initiated the creation and teacher of the certified educational program “Medical Law”, which was opened at Donetsk National University named after Vasyl Stus.
  • She did an internship at the Center for International Educational Projects within the project 544117-TEMPUS-1-2013-1-HR-TEMPUS-JPCR “Development of a master’s program in European and International law in Eastern Europe – InterEULawEast”, 2016.
  • She is a co-organizer and judge of the annual All-Ukrainian Debates on Civil Law and Procedure “Mastery of Judicial Speech”, co-organizer of the All-Ukrainian Judicial Debates on Labor Law.
  • Member of the editorial board of the professional publication “Legal Chasopis of Donetsk University”, member of the editorial board of the journals “Medical Law”, “Theory and Practice of Intellectual Property”.
  • Since 2018 she has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Supreme Court.
  • Supervises postgraduate research activities in the specialty 12.00.04 – commercial law; commercial and procedural law.
  • She is the Deputy Chairman of the Specialized Academic Council for the Defense of Candidate’s Dissertations K 11.051.12 in the specialty 12.00.04 – at the Donetsk National University named after Vasyl Stus; member of the specialized scientific council D 26.001.06 in the specialties 12.00.03; 12.00.04 at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
  • Participated in the development of the Concept of legal support for the development of environmental entrepreneurship (“green” economy) and the draft Law of Ukraine “On environmental entrepreneurship (“green” economy)”.
  • She was awarded the Gratitude of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
  • The total scientific achievement for 2005-2019 includes more than 110 scientific and educational works, more than 60 scientific articles and other scientific publications published in national professional and foreign journals.

The main areas of research are: legal protection and protection of intellectual property rights, commercialization of intellectual property rights, legal support of innovation, protection against unfair competition.

Scientific publications:

1. author of monographs: “Economic and legal regulation of industrial property relations” (2013), “The right to a business reputation and its protection by the antimonopoly authorities of Ukraine” (2006), “Industrial property protection: legislative and enforcement challenges” (2011 );

2. co-author of collective monographs “Legal support of ecological entrepreneurship development (“green” economy)” (2018),“Innovation infrastructure in the context of the national innovation system (economic and legal problems)”(2012),“Economic and legal aspects of ensuring economic development of Ukraine”(2013);

3. co-author of the Great Ukrainian Legal Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Commercial Law (2019);

4. author of textbooks “Commercialization of intellectual property rights” (2018), “Protection of intellectual property rights” (2010);

5. co-author of the Scientific and Practical Commentary on the Commercial Code of Ukraine (2008);

6. co-author of the workshop “Commercial Law” (2018);

7. author of more than 60 scientific articles and other scientific publications published in national professional and foreign publications, in particular:

8. Koval I.F. Regarding the legal status of the Supreme Court on Intellectual Property issues. Theory and practice of intellectual property. 2016. №5. P. 39-44.

9. Koval I.F., Shcherbakova N.V. Regarding the application of the concept of “organizational and legal form” in the Commercial Code of Ukraine. Forum of Law. 2015. № 3. P. 107-113.

10. Koval I.F. Legislative support of state registration in the field of transfer of intellectual property rights. Law and Innovative Society: electronic edition.  2015. Vip. 1 (4). Access mode: http: //apir.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Koval.pdf

11. Koval I.F. Legal characteristics of ecological products: theoretical principles and legislative consolidation. Theory and practice of intellectual property. 2017. № 1 (93). P. 37-45.

12. Koval I.F. Regarding the development of the national system of legal education in the field of intellectual property. Theory and practice of intellectual property. 2018. №2. P. 65-73.