Kherson State University
West Ukrainian National University
Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University
Riga Nordic University
Сollective monograph
CYBERCRIME AND DIGITAL EVIDENCE: CROSS-DISCIPLINARY
CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS IN CONTEMPORARY LAW
Deadline – February 20, 2025
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Scientists, academic staff, and postgraduate students specializing in the relevant field are invited to take part in the preparation of a collective monograph.
The future publication will be a result of the activities of the authors’ team united by a common idea to present achievements
of their researches.
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Head of the Editorial Board – Stratonov Vasyl Mykolaiovych – Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine, 
Academician of the National Academy of Higher Education Sciences of Ukraine, Professor at the Department of National, International Law and Law Enforcement, Kherson State University;
Djakons Romans – Doctor of Engineering, Professor, Academician, Chairman of the Board of Riga Nordic University;
Havlovska Alina Oleksandrivna – PhD in Law, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of National, International Law and Law Enforcement, Kherson State University;
Dziurbel Andrii Dariiovych – PhD in Law, Assistant Professor at the Department of Criminal Law and Process, West Ukrainian National University;
Koval Alla Anatoliivna – Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor, Head of the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law and Process, Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University.
The monograph is published by the European publishing house “Izdevnieciba “Baltija Publishing” (Riga, Latvia) and recommended for printing by the institution’s academic council.
Reviewers, who are mentioned in the monograph’s output data, guarantee an independent review. The monograph is awarded ISBN that permits authors to participate in developing the collective scientific paper published in the country of the EU.
DOI is assigned to every article included in the collective monograph that allows the authors to find their scientific work on the Open Ukrainian Citation Index (OUCI) site, which was developed by specialists of the State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine on behalf of the Collegium of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
The monograph will be available on the website of the European publisher “Izdevnieciba “Baltija Publishing” at the link.
The authors of the collective monograph’s section receive an electronic layout of the collective monograph and a certificate.
Why is the publication of the monograph section valuable?
(for fulfilling the licensing conditions, to obtain the degree
of Doctor and Candidate of Sciences, for awarding the degree
of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), for young scientists)
MONOGRAPH’S TARGET SUBJECT:
- Criminal law and criminal procedure (digital evidence in cybercrime investigations (system hacking, unauthorized access, phishing, malicious software); mobile forensics: extraction and analysis of data from mobile devices; formation of electronic evidence bases in criminal proceedings; international cooperation in the field of cybercrime (Budapest Convention and EU practice); ensuring the authenticity and admissibility of digital evidence in court proceedings; features of recording digital traces during investigative (search) activities; features of investigating unsolved cybercrimes).
- Civil law and civil procedure (use of electronic correspondence, electronic signatures, blockchain records as evidence in civil cases; disputes over intellectual property in the digital environment (plagiarism, digital copies, deepfakes); digital evidence in corporate conflicts, contractual legal relations, online fraud).
- Commercial law and commercial arbitration (the role of digital evidence in the consideration of disputes between businesses (B2B), particularly in international arbitration; the use of Big Data, transaction records, and digital traces in commercial disputes; the problem of preserving and authenticating evidence in the field of e-commerce).
- Administrative law (cyber incidents in public administration (personal data protection, leaks from registries); digital evidence in administrative offense cases (e.g., cyberbullying, online advertising); the role of cyber police and state control bodies in collecting and using digital evidence).
- Labor law (use of digital evidence in disputes between employers and employees (e-mail correspondence, data from corporate chats); monitoring remote work: balance between evidence and the right to privacy; use of algorithms to evaluate employee performance and the possibility of challenging such data in court).
- International law (cyberattacks as a threat to national security: digital evidence in international criminal courts; the role of digital evidence in cases before the International Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights (e.g., in cases of human rights violations through surveillance and censorship); evidence of cyberaggression in the context of war crimes).
- Constitutional law and human rights (challenges to the right to privacy and confidentiality of communications when collecting digital evidence; the balance between national security and freedom of speech on the Internet; the issue of the legality of access to digital data (decisions of the Constitutional Courts of the EU, the US, and Ukraine)).
- Other branches (environmental law: using data from digital sensors and satellite monitoring as evidence of violations; tax law: digital traces in tax evasion investigations, cryptocurrency transactions; medical law: data from medical devices, eHealth as evidence in court).
REGISTRATION PROCEDURE:
To publish contributions in the collective monograph, authors should act as follows:
- fill in an application form and send a manuscript to law@cuesc.org.ua for peer-review before February 20, 2026;
- send a copy of the payment confirmation following the manuscript’s approval for publication.
Re: Monograph on cybercrime and digital evidence.
KEY DATES:
The submission of application forms and articles for publishing in the monograph: before February 20, 2026 (inclusively).
Feedback on papers acceptance: within 3–4 working days after papers receipt.
E-mail distribution of the monograph’s layout and the certificate: after May 8, 2026.
PROHIBITION TO REFER TO THE AGGRESSOR STATE’S SCHOLARLY PAPERS:
We kindly note that the monograph languages are Ukrainian, English, and Latvian. It is prohibited citing and including in the reference list russian-language contributions published in any country, incl. papers written in other languages but published in russia and belarus.
ARTICLE REQUIREMENTS:
An article should be a holistic document of scientific content that involves the results of the author’s original researchers.
The volume of the monograph subsection should be at least 15–30 pages. A4 paper format, line space – 1,5; Times New Roman, 14 size; all margins – 20 mm.
The maximum number of authors is three.
Languages: Latvian, English and Ukrainian.
PROHIBITION TO REFER TO THE AGGRESSOR STATE’S SCHOLARLY PAPERS:
We kindly note that the monograph languages are Ukrainian, English, and Latvian. It is prohibited citing and including in the reference list russian-language contributions published in any country, incl. papers written in other languages but published in russia and belarus.
ARTICLE GENERAL STRUCTURE:
Monograph section name; author’s surname and initials in the publication’s language.
A paper should have the following structure: a short introduction (1–2 pages), 2–3 equally weighted sections and conclusion (1 page), summary: 7–10 sentences in the article’s language (to indicate a range of problems and research results).
The article must have per-page citations as well as References at the end. Citations should be indicated with a number without brackets and dots using Microsoft Word references.
To improve the quality level of scientific citations in the scientometric database Open Ukrainian Citation Index (OUCI), it is important to indicate DOI for every source which it has.
Attention! References are in a source language and executed taking into account the National Standard of Ukraine DSTU 8302: 2015 “Information and documentation. Bibliographic reference. General principles and rules of composition”.
Author’s full name and information: scientific degree and rank, post, affiliation; address of employment place (in English regardless of the publication’s language).
Attention! In case of submitting a non-English article, an author should additionally submit an English name of the section and its structural elements (subsections) (see a design sample).
REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE IN UKRAINE:
Center for Ukrainian and European Scientific Cooperation
(according to the signed international cooperation agreement with Riga Nordic University)
Contact person: Tiutiunnyk Tetiana Mykolaivna – Monograph coordinator.
Telephone: +38 (068) 473 07 28
E-mail: law@cuesc.org.ua
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