As part of the Cooperation Agreement, on December 6, 2021, the research and teaching staff of the Faculty of Law took part in the plenary session of the International Conference on Coercion, organized by the Marie Curie-Skłodowska University (Poland, Lublin).
Leading scholars from around the world have discussed the qualification of crimes and criminal offenses committed by coercion. Head of the Department of Criminal Law and Procedure, Doctor of Law, Professor Sofiya Lykhova made a report on "The concept of coercion in the criminal law of Ukraine", noting that in her opinion Article 191 of the Polish Penal Code contains a descriptive disposition. There is no separate article in the Criminal Code of Ukraine called “Coercion”, but from the point of view of the doctrinal approach coercion means requiring another person to commit a crime by inflicting bodily harm or other violence, damage to property belonging to him or her relatives, distribution certain information about such a person, etc. The absence of a separate crime "Coercion" in the criminal legislation of Ukraine does not mean that there is no responsibility for it. A significant number of criminal offenses are committed through coercion, which takes the form of violence: physical, psychological, economic, "said the speaker.
Based on the results of the International Conference, a collective monograph is planned to be published.