Iryna Izarova is a professor at the Law School of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Her postdoctoral research was related to the harmonization of Ukrainian and European civil procedure, she took part in the Consultative Committee of the ELI and Unidroit Project 'From Transnational Principles to European Rules of Civil Procedure'. Iryna manages a few bilateral R&D projects and is a member of the European Law Institute, the European Association of Private International Law, the European Association of Science Editors, the International Association of Procedural Law.