KRESIN Oleksii Veniaminovych (24. 02. 1976, Sloviansk, now Kramatorsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast) — historian, comparative legal scholar. Son of I. Kresina. Doctor of Juridical Sciences (2017), Professor (2022). M. Vasylenko Prize of the NAS of Ukraine (2020). Graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (1997), studied at Harvard University (USA, 1998), University of Nottingham (Great Britain, 2000), Central European University (Hungary, 2004). Worked 1994, 1998–2002 at Kyiv Technical University of Construction and Architecture; 1994–98 — at the Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Source Studies of the NAS of Ukraine; 2003 — at the Legislative Institute of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine; since 2000 — at the Institute of State and Law of the NAS of Ukraine: since 2010 — Head of the Center for Comparative Jurisprudence, concurrently since 2018 — Leading Research Fellow; part-time 2001–04 — at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the NAS of Ukraine; 2004–05 — at the Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Ukraine (all — Kyiv); 2002–06 — at Kyiv International University; 2011–15 — at the Kyiv Oblastal Center of the NALSU; since 2021 — Professor of the Department of International, Civil, and Commercial Law at Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics; since 2022 — Professor at the National Academy of the Security Service of Ukraine (Kyiv). Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Comparative Law” (2012–13). Organizer of over 40 international and all-Ukrainian scientific events. Member of the Committee on Criminal Matters (2010–12) and the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (2013–17) of the Council of Europe. Research interests: international legal means of countering Russian aggression, history and theory of comparative jurisprudence, history of the state and law of Ukraine in the 17th—18th centuries.