Professional activities::
(a) Work at national level:
since 2006 Yerevan State University / Faculty of Law
- Head of the Chair of European and International
Law
1997 to 2009 Bar Association of the Republic of
Armenia (BARA) - Vice-President
1997 to 2009 Bar Association of the Republic of
Armenia (BARA) - Executive Director
1998 to 2006 Public Centre for Legal Aid - Founder &
Director
1999 to 2002 Presidential Commission on Drafting
Constitutional Amendments - Member
1996 to 2006 Yerevan State University / Faculty of
law - Associate Professor
(b) International work:
since 2001 European Commission against Racism and
Intolerance (Council of Europe) - Member in respect
of the of Armenia
2004 to 2008 Advisory Committee of Framework
Convention on National Minorities - Member in
respect of the Republic of Armenia
Education and professional development:
1988 -1993 Yerevan State University, Faculty of Law
(Yerevan, Armenia) - Diploma with Honor in Law
1993 – 1996 St-Petersburg State University
(St-Petersburg, Russia) - Candidate of Law (PhD) -
Ph.D. thesis title "International Legal Protection
of National Minorities"
1999 University of California/Berkeley (Berkeley,
USA) - Junior Faculty Training Program
2001 University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK) -
Visiting Scholar
2001-2003 Civic Education Project (Yale University,
USA) - Eastern FellowPublications on Human
Rights:
“Case Law of ECHR”, Textbook for Law Schools,
Yerevan, 2007
“The Guarantees of Access to Justice in Armenia”,
Yerevan, 2007 (co-author)
“Court Monitoring of Armenian Courts: results,
analysis, recommendations,” Yerevan, 2006
(co-author)
“Access to Justice: European Standards and Armenian
Issues”, Yerevan, 2005 (co-author)
“Human Development”, Textbook, Yerevan, 2004
(co-author)
“Public International Law”, Textbook for Law
Schools. Yerevan, 2002
“Human Rights and Human Development”, Contribution
for the UNDP National Report, 2000 (co-author)
“Implementation of Norms of International
Humanitarian Law” in Russian Yearbook of
International Law, 2000
“International Law and National Minorities”, Yerevan
State University Press, Yerevan, 1999
“Basics of the State and Law”, textbook, Yerevan,
1998 (co-author) (in Armenian),
“National Minorities and National
Self-Determination”, National Academy of Science,
Yerevan, 1996
“National Minorities and Their Protection in
International Law” in Jurisprudence, St. Petersburg
University, No. 2, 1995
Membership to professional associations:
President of Armenian Institute for Development
Vice-President of Bar Association of the Republic of
Armenia
Member of the Board of Armenian Association of
International Law
Member of the Board of Armenian Association of
European Studies
Member of the Editorial Council of the “Moscow
Journal of International Law”
Member of the Editor’s Board of the “State and Law”
Law Review
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