Biography

Ivan Romashchenko has the research goal to assess the interconnection between digitalisation and human rights in company law, and to suggest recommendations for the improvement of regulations and practice in this area. He has more than 10 years of research experience, as well as teaching company law, civil law, international private law, and cultural rights to undergraduate and postgraduate students at the Department of Civil Law at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine) as well as business law at the American University of the Middle East (Kuwait). He has significant experience in comparative legal research.

In 2020, he defended his PhD thesis, ‘Related Party Transactions and Corporate Groups: When Eastern Europe Meets the West,’ at Leiden University (the Netherlands) with an extensive comparative overview of Dutch, German, Polish and EU company laws and published a book with Wolters Kluwer. While writing his PhD he was a guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Hamburg, Germany) in 2016 (July and August; the Institute’s scholarship) and 2017 (August; the DAAD scholarship). During 2021-2023 he was working as a Senior Researcher of the Law School’s LegalTech (Legal Technology) Centre at Mykolas Romeris University (Vilnius, Lithuania) within the project ‘Digitalisation of Company Law: Harmonisation Challenges and Opportunities in Selected Jurisdictions (DigiCoL)’ and published several articles.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Ongoing

• Finance and society
• Digital transformations and society

Completed

• Technological change and society

Mentor

• Mathias Siems