Congratulates 2018 TEI EMEA Chapter Award Winner.

• Position: EMEA CHAPTER

The twentieth academic year of the Advanced LL.M. Program in International Tax Law at the International Tax Center at Leiden University (the Netherlands) came to a close on August 25,2018, with a graduation lecture and presentation of awards in the Great Auditorium of the Academy Building. An Theeuwes, past president of the EMEA Chapter, was in the audience for the graduation lecture, "Taxation and Democracy," presented by Wolfgang Schon, director of the department of business and tax law at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, honorary professor at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and vice president of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (the German Research Foundation). Following the lecture, Theeuwes presented the 2018 TEI EMEA Chapter Award to graduating student llya Meshcheryakov of Ukraine.

Prior to coming to Leiden, Meshcheryakov earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in law at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev, where he earned excellent grades and was awarded his diploma with honors. In addition to taking part in moot court and debate club activities, he participated in the university's pro bono law clinic where he rendered free legal services to some 600 clients. Additionally, he participated in a USAID program, completing a twelve-month internship as a Budget Committee head assistant at the Supreme Council of Ukraine. Following these studies, Meshcheryakov worked for five years at the...