Advocate Bureau of OLENA BUSOL

Legal Assistance

The Bureau’s key practice areas include legal assistance in matters involving corruption and corruption-related crime, protection of whistleblowers’ rights, and legal support in the field of intellectual property.

Olena Yuriyivna Busol, Managing Partner of the Bureau, is a practicing advocate registered with the Bar Council of Kyiv Region and holds Advocate’s Certificate Series КС No. 10613/10.

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Experience

• 29 years of experience in law enforcement agencies and the legal field;
• 10 years of court representation and legal assistance;
• 15 years of work in corruption-related matters, including successful cases before courts of various instances;
• 20 years of experience in analytical intelligence.

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Academic Titles and Degrees

• Doctor of Law in Criminal Law and Criminology; Penal Enforcement Law.
• Senior Research Fellow in specialty 12.00.09 — Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics, Forensic Examination, Operational-Search Activities.
• Doctoral dissertation: “Countering Corruption-Related Crime in Ukraine in the Context of the Modern Anti-Corruption Strategy”, specialty 12.00.08 — Criminal Law and Criminology; Penal Enforcement Law.
• Candidate dissertation: “Organization of Analytical Intelligence in Operational Units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine”, specialty 12.00.09 — Operational-Search Activities.

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Education

• Master’s degree from the National Academy of Internal Affairs in Kyiv, specialty “Management in the Field of Law and Order,” qualification: lawyer.
• National University of Internal Affairs in Kharkiv, specialty “Law,” qualification: lawyer.
• Author of more than 500 academic publications on criminological issues of organized crime and corruption-related crime, as well as analytical intelligence.

Author of more than 500 scholarly works.

https://scholar.google.com.ua/citations?user=c2eI9xoAAAAJ&hl=uk

Including works published in international editions, such as:

Monographs

• “Problems of Improving the Effectiveness of Criminal Justice in Ukraine” (2021);
• “Modern Areas and Methods for Improving the Mechanism of Public and Private Legal Relations in the World” (2021);
• “Legislative Support for Combating Corruption” (2021);
• “Ensuring Law and Order in Ukraine by Means of Criminal Justice” (2017);
• “Political Games, or the Creation of the State Bureau of Investigation in Ukraine” (2017);
• “Countering Corruption-Related Crime in Ukraine in the Modern Period” (2015);
• “Legislation of Ukraine and Foreign Countries on Combating Corruption. International Experience in the Fight Against Corruption” (2010);
• “Analytical Intelligence. Analysis of Operational-Search Information” (2010).

Educational and Practical Manuals

• “Organized Crime: Definition, Analysis, Counteraction” (2022);
• “The System of State Authorities with Law Enforcement Functions in Ukraine” (2019);
• “Criminology: Textbook” (2018);
• “Criminology: Manual” (2018);
• “Criminology” (2020);
• “Corrupt Acts in Public Service as a Threat to the National Security of the Ukrainian State” (2012);
• “Analytical Work in Operational-Search Activities” (2012);
• “Organization of Detection and Investigation of the Illegal Manufacture, Storage, Sale, or Transportation for the Purpose of Sale of Excisable Goods” (2009);
• “Analysis of the Criminogenic Situation and Operational Environment in the Field of Combating Economic Crime” (2008);
• encyclopedic scholarly articles in the “National Criminological Encyclopedia” (2018) and the “Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia” (2021).

Author of more than 250 articles in specialized journals and newspapers, including:

• “Ukraine: Events, Facts, Comments”
• “The Constitutional Process in Ukraine: Political and Legal Aspects”
• “Public Opinion on Lawmaking”
• the newspapers “Law and Business” and “Legal Bulletin of Ukraine”
• and others.

Author and lecturer of original lecture courses, seminars, and academic programs:

• “Legal Foundations of Anti-Corruption Activity”
• “Criminal Law Policy in the Field of Countering Corruption”
• “Theoretical Foundations of Anti-Corruption Activity”
• “Theoretical and Practical Issues of Countering Corruption under Conditions of the Internationalization of Crime”
• “Criminal Law”
• “Analytical Intelligence in Operational Units of Internal Affairs Bodies of Ukraine”
• “Organization of Information and Analytical Support for Operational Units in the Field of Combating Organized Crime”

The monograph by O. Yu. Busol, “Countering Corruption-Related Crime in Ukraine in the Modern Period” (2015), was included in the Top 10 publications on combating corruption according to the EIDOS Center for Political Studies and Analytics.

The monograph by O. Yu. Busol, “Political Games, or the Creation of the State Bureau of Investigation in Ukraine”, was nominated for the 19th All-Ukrainian “Book of the Year 2017” Rating (“Horizons”) in the category “Specialized Literature.”

Olena Yuriyivna Busol was recognized as the best author of the national legal newspaper “Legal Bulletin of Ukraine” in the nominations “Excellent Professional Analysis of a Current Legal Issue” (2018), “Creative Coverage of Complex Issues of Jurisprudence” (2019), “Academic Depth and Practical Relevance of Publications” (2020), and “Excellent Professional Analysis of a Current Legal Issue” (2021).

For the educational and practical manual “The System of State Authorities with Law Enforcement Functions in Ukraine” (2019), edited by O. Yu. Busol, and as one of its authors, she was awarded a diploma by the Union of Lawyers of Ukraine.