VIKTORIIA LAPA

VIKTORIIA LAPA

Courses a.y. 2023/2024

I teach the following courses for undergraduate students:

  • Introduction to the Legal System-Module II (30048)
  • Law (Module I) (30430)
  • Comparative Business and European Law (30058)

Master students:

  • Digital technology and International Economic Law (11366)

Biographical note

I am a Lecturer at Bocconi University, Milan, an Affiliated Scholar at the Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development, Bologna, an Assistant Professor at Alfred Nobel University in Dnipro, Ukraine and a Guest Lecturer at the University of Bologna. Previously, I was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Lauterpacht Center for International Law, University of Cambridge (2018); a Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law (2017-2018); a Junior Lawyer at Dentons, Ukraine (2014-2015); and a Public Prosecutor in Ukraine (2011-2012). I earned my PhD in Law from Bocconi University and was awarded an LL.M. from the University of Barcelona and Maastricht University. I have published in the areas of international trade law and the constitutional law of Ukraine.


Research interests

National security exceptions in trade law, NATO commitments in constitutions, constitutional law of Ukraine.


Selected Publications

Frosini, Justin Orlando; Lapa, Viktoriia
Mere aspirazioni di un Paese in guerra? Le disposizioni euroatlantiche nella Costituzione dell’Ucraina
QUADERNI COSTITUZIONALI, 2022

Frosini, Justin Orlando; Lapa, Viktoriia
Would Ukraine breach its own constitution if it dropped its NATO bid?
VERFASSUNGSBLOG, 2022

Frosini, Justin Orlando; Lapa, Viktoriia
The historical and legal significance of constitutional preambles: a case study on the Ukrainian Constitution of 1996
Comparative constitutional history. Volume 1 : principles, developments, challenges, 2020