Dr. Oleksandr Pastukhov has been a Resident Academic at the University of Malta since August 2012. In October 2021, he joined the Department of European and Comparative Law at the Faculty of Laws.
Dr. Pastukhov obtained his LL.B. with a major in Private International Law from Kiev Taras Shevchenko University in Ukraine (1997), LL.M. from Northwestern University School of Law in the U.S. (2000), LL.D. from Koretsky Institute of State and Law in Ukraine (2003) and Ph.D. in Law from Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium (2008). He spent his post-doc years at the VU University Amsterdam in the Netherlands and Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland. Dr. Pastukhov is a regular participant and speaker at various national and international fora dedicated to ICT law and policy issues. He is a devoted advocate of privacy, e-governance and media freedom in his native Ukraine and beyond.
Dr. Pastukhov is a solo author of a book on digital copyright and some 30 articles/book chapters on diverse legal aspects of ICT use and development, personal data and intellectual property protection online, e-government introduction, Open and Free Software development, ISPs’ liability and e-commerce taxation. He has also initiated and administered a number of ICT law-related research, consultancy and training projects in several European countries.
Dr. Pastukhov designed and delivered the first ICT Law course in Ukraine in 2002. In the years that followed, he got a substantial experience in teaching and supervising undergraduate and post-graduate students’ research in the areas of intellectual property, e-commerce law and cybercrime in Belgium, the Netherlands and the UK. Dr. Pastukhov has also been a Visiting Professor at the LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome and Mykolas Romeris University in Vilnius, Lithuania.
