Welcome to the Spring 2025 National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy Faculty of Law Peer to Peer Legal English Writing Workshop!

The Workshop is intended to provide law students at the Faculty of Law at Kyiv Mohyla (KMA) the opportunity to work individually with native English speakers who are sophisticated and experienced in legal writing. The Workshop also provides US law students and legal professionals the opportunity to get to know Ukrainian law students and contribute to the advancement of legal education in Ukraine. US mentors and KMA students will work in groups of two or three.

All information about the Workshop will be posted on this website. The schedule for the Workshop is in the Schedule tab. The Assignments tab has the weekly assignments. On the Student Partnerships tab you will find the student pairings. The Questions & Support tab has the contact information for legal writing professionals who can help with questions about legal writing or writing in plain English. The Resources tab has materials about legal research and general materials about learning to write and edit legal documents in English.

The workshop will take place as set out in the Schedule tab. The Workshop will include weekly lectures for the Ukrainian students on the materials for each week. The lectures will take place every Monday at the scheduled class time. US tutors do not need to attend the lectures as you have all taken legal writing.

If you have questions on organization or logistics of the workshop, please contact the relevant person at your institution or Natalia Maksymchuk, Deputy Director of the Workshop. n.maksymchuk@ukma.edu.ua.

Questions relating to the substantive Ukrainian law should be directed to Ivan Yatskevych, Professor of Labor Law, KMA, ivan.yatskevych@ukma.edu.ua.

US participants will receive pro bono or academic credit or remuneration as arranged by their institutions. KMA students will receive credit in accordance with internal KMA criteria.