Education
1979 - 1983: Post - graduate student, Yerevan State University, Faculty of Law
1972 - 1977: Yerevan State University, Faculty of Law

Academic degree
1983: “Procedural and Tactical Bases for Checking, Assessment and Use of Evidence Received during Interrogation”, Diploma of Candidate of Law from the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of General Prosecutor's Office of the USSR, Moscow
2000: “Actual Problems of the Criminal Procedural Legislation of the Third Republic of Armenia (comparative-legal study)”, Diploma of Doctor of Law from the Scientific Research Institute of General Prosecutor's Office of Russian Federation, Moscow

Professional experience
2014: Academician of NAS RA
2006 - 2014: Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the RA
2002: Professor
2002: Chairman, Specialized Council for Awarding Scientific
Degrees in Jurisprudence
1996: Dean, Yerevan State University, Faculty of Law
1991 - 2000: Head of the Department of Criminal Law, Yerevan State University, Faculty of Law
1989 - 1991: Deputy Dean, Yerevan State University, Faculty of Law
1987 - 1989: Docent, Department of Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics, Yerevan State University, Faculty of Law
1983 - 1987: Lecturer, Department of Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics, Yerevan State University, Faculty of Law

Academic courses
Criminal Procedure, Theory of Evidence in Criminal Procedure

Scale of professional interests
Problems of effective criminal procedure legislation in the Republic of Armenia, theory of evidence

Languages
Armenian and Russian (fluent), English (conversational)

Professional membership
President, Bar Association of the Republic of Armenia
Vice-President, International Union of Lawyers

Awards received
«Mkhitar Gosh» medal, Honoured Lawyer of the RA

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