Maryna Utkina

Researcher, Associate Tutor

Financial Monitoring (Intelligence); Financial Crimes; Anti-Money Laundering; Corruption Prevention

School of Law
Social Sciences Building
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom

Office Hours
Tuesday 11am-12noon
Thursday 11am-12noon

Scholarship

Maryna's principal research interest lies in financial monitoring (intelligence) (particularly at the intersections of anti-money laundering, prevention of corruption and achieving sustainable development goals) and digital technologies.

She is currently leading two projects. The first, funded by the British Academy, explores the effectiveness of financial monitoring in corruption prevention, anti-money laundering and financing terrorism. The European Union co-funds the second project - “The Protection of IP Rights of Researchers and Research Institutions in Ukraine: Best EU Practices”.

Bio

Dr. Maryna Utkina, Associate Professor at Academic and Research Institute of Law, Sumy State University; Research Fellow at University of Warwick Law School. She has a PhD in Law from Sumy State University. Thesis title: Administrative and Legal Framework for the Functioning of the Financial System of Ukraine. She also holds LLM (Master of Laws) and LLB (Bachelor of Laws) in Law with honours from Sumy State University.

Maryna was previously a Visiting Academic at Latvijas Universitate (Latvia) and Univerzita Komenského (Slovakia). She was an executor of the young scientists project No. 0120U100474 “Development of Methods for Law Enforcement Agencies of Ukraine Interaction Regarding Countermeasures Legalisation of Criminal Income” funded by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine).

Awards:

2024-2025 - The Petro Jacyk Non-Residential Scholars Program (Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Police, Canada);
2022-2024- Scholarship for Young Scientists (Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine);
July 2023 - Scholarship for participation in Liverpool Summer School on the Law of the Council of Europe “The Council of Europe: Resilience in Troubling Times” (University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK);
July 2022 - Scholarship for participation in International Summer School (University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK);
2022 - Fernandes Fellowship (University of Warwick, Coventry, UK);
August 2022 - Summer Academy for Young Professionals (SAYP) "Sustainable e- Government for Resilient and Innovative Democratic Public Administration (SeGRID)" (Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden);
2020 - Summer Academy for Young Professionals (SAYP) "Perspectives on Multi-Level Governance, Decentralisation and Human Rights" (Lund University, Lund, Sweden).

Role Publications

Bondarenko, O., Utkina, M. & Shcherbak, N. (2024) Restrictive measures as a way of preventing domestic violence : the experience of Ukraine. Baltic Journal of Law & Politics, 16 (2). pp. 131-150. doi: 10.2478/bjlp-2023-0017 ISSN 2029-0454.
Utkina, Maryna (2023) Leveraging blockchain technology for enhancing financial monitoring : main challenges and opportunities. European Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 15 (2). pp. 134-151. 17. doi:10.24818/ejis.2023.21 ISSN 2067-3759.
Bondarenko, Olha and Utkina, Maryna (2024). Martial law and smuggling of goods : the search for the optimal model of legal liability. Journal of Financial Crime, 31 (1). pp. 63-75. doi: 10.1108/JFC-01-2023-0014 ISSN 1359-0790. (In Press)
Reznik, Oleg, Bondarenko, Olha, Utkina, Maryna, Klypa, Olena and Bobrishova, Liliia (2023) Anti-corruption transformation processes in the conditions of the judicial reform in Ukraine implementation. International Journal for Court Administration, 14 (1). 2. doi:10.36745/ijca.400 ISSN 2156-7964.

Teaching Research

Social Sciences School of Law

Maryna Utkina

Researcher, Associate Tutor

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