Lado Chanturia#
© ECHR-CEDH Council of Europe
| Membership Number: | 6400 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LAW |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.echr.coe.int |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8256-6483 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 - present Judge of the European Court for Human Rights, Strasbourg, France
- 1995 - present Full Professor of Private and Comparative Law at the Tbilisi State University,Tbilisi, Georgia
- 2014 - 2018 Ambassador of Georgia to Germany
- 2011 - 2014 Visiting Professor (DAAD-Gastdozent) at the Christian-Albrechts-University to Kiel, Institute for Eastern European Law, Kiel, Germany
- 2009 - 2011 Senior Advisor of the GIZ (German International Cooperation), Eschborn, Germany
- 2006 - 2009 Director of the Project “Civil and Economic Law in the Countries of the Central Asia and Caucasus” at the University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
- 1999 - 2004 President of the Supreme Court of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia
- 1998 - 1999 Minister of Justice of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia
- 1997 - 2004 Member of the Council of Justice of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia
- 1993 - 1997 Advisor to the Minister of Justice of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia
Fields of Scholarship
- Comparative law
- International human rights law
- Law
- Private law
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Doctor h.c. of the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (Germany)
- 2012 Doctor h.c. of the David-Agmashenebeli-University of Georgia
- 2009 Award “Best Author” of the Kazakh Legal Journal “Jurist”
- 2006 Awarded from the President of the Federal Republic of Germany with “Das Grosse Bundesverdienstkreuz of the Federal Republic of Germany”
- 2004 Award from ABA/CEELI a Reformer’s Award in Recognition of Extraordinary Efforts in Promoting the Rule of Law
- 1996 George Shultz Award for Young Scientists
