Promoted in 1996 with the degree of the Candidate of Juridical Sciences (12.00.11 – International Law). Dissertation topic: «International Law Aspects of Co-operation of the European Union with Third Countries»

 2007 – Habilitation in the field of Juridical Sciences (12.00.11 – International Law) at the State and Law Institute named after Volodymyr Koretskyy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Since 2008 - Full Professor at the European Law Department of the Faculty of International Relations of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv;

Research Areas:

- EU Law

- EU External Relations Law

 -EU Relations with Third Countries

 -EU-Ukraine Relations

Author of more than 150 publications in the field of the European Union Law and International Law

Selected Publications:

1. European Environmental Law, text-book, 2004, in co-authorship, edit. N. Andrusevych, T, Budiakova, 256 p., in Ukrainian language.

2. European Union: Politics, Economy and Law, text-book, 2005, in co-authorship, edit. N. A. Antoniuk, N.V. Antoniuk, N.A. Romaniuk and other, 532 p., in Ukrainian language.

3. Commercial Diplomacy: Law and Politics, text-book, 2005, in co-authorship, edit. L. Dawson, M. Z. Malskyy and other, 520 p., in Ukrainian language.

4. Commercial Diplomacy: Law and Politics, text-book, 2005, in co-authorship, edit. L. Dawson, M. Z. Malskyy and other, 704 p., in Ukrainian language.

5. European Environmental Law, text-book, 2008, in co-authorship, edit. N. Andrusevych, T, Budiakova, 326 p., in Ukrainian language.

6. Chapter 22. International Economic Law// Public International Law. text-book, 2012, in co-authorship, edit. V. Repetskyy, 2011, 437 p., in Ukrainian language. Published in 2013:

7. International Judicial Law-Making: From the Concept ti the Practical Realization in the Activivties of European Judicial Bodies// International Law in XXI Century: Actual State of Arts and Perspectives for Development (Liber Amicorum Vasyl Repetskyy)/ Ed (Mykhailo Mykievych)., Lviv, LA “Piramida”, 2013, p.104-123 (in co-authorship).

8. Humanitarian Intervention in the European System of Collective Security// International Law as Basis of the Contemporary Legal Order Liber Amicorum: to 75-tha Anniversary of Prof. Volodymyr Denissov/ Eds. Melnyk Ya. Melnyk S. Korotkyy T., Kyiv, Odessa, 2012, p.71-92 (in co-authorship).

9. From Paris to Lisbon: Finanlization of the Process of International Personification of the European Union, Review of the Lviv University, International Relations Series, Vol.30, 2012, p. 157-169.

10. EU «ACQUIS» ЄС in the External Dimension of the EU’s Legal System, Law of Ukraine,  2013, No. 1-2., p.. 505-506

11. International Public Law: methodologic recommendations, Lviv, 2012, 68 p.

12. Fundamentals of the EU Law: syllabus and seminar plans for students of the Law School and Faculty of International Relations, Lviv, 2013, 39 p.