Iryna Zaverukha is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law. She is also an adjunct associate professor of law at Southwestern Law School.

She earned her JD from Ivan Franko L’viv National University (LNU); LLM from USC Gould; PhD from Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University; and SJD from the Institute of Legislation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

She has taught at LNU, Ukrainian Catholic University and Southwestern Law School, including the subjects of Public International Law and International Criminal Law. In addition to teaching, she served as deputy dean of the law school, and later, as head of the Administrative and Financial Law Department at the L’viv National University in Ukraine. During her 20 years of teaching experience, she has taught in Ukraine, Poland, Kuwait and the U.S.