Professional Experience Record
2015 to date: Deputy Minister of Justice of Republic of Armenia
2015 to date: Yerevan State University, Faculty of law, Associate Professor
2006 to 2015 - Yerevan State University, Faculty of law, Head of Chair of European and International Law
1996 - 2006: Yerevan State University, Faculty of law, Associate Professor
2008 to date: Bar Association of the Republic of Armenia, Vice-President
1997 to 2008: Bar Association of the Republic of Armenia, Executive Director
2001 to 2015: European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (Council of Europe), Member in respect of Republic of Armenia
2004 to 2008: Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (Council of Europe), Member
1999 - 2001: Presidential Commission on Drafting Constitutional Amendments, Member

Education and professional development

Yerevan State University, Department of Law
(Yerevan, Armenia), 1988 – 1993
Diploma with Honor in Law

St-Petersburg State University
(St-Petersburg, Russia), 1993 – 1996
PhD (International Human Rights)

University of California/Berkeley
(Berkeley, USA), 1999
Junior Faculty Training Program in Public International Law

Central European University
Constitutional and Legal Policy Institute, (Budapest, Hungary) 2000
Courses on European Human Rights

University of Cambridge
(Cambridge, UK) 2001
Visiting Scholar

Membership in Professional Associations
Member of the Board of Bar Association of the Republic of Armenia (BARA)
Member of the Board of Armenian Association of International Law
Member of the Editors Board of the “Moscow Journal of International Law” (Moscow, Russia)
Member of the Editors Board of the ”State and Law” law review (Yerevan, Armenia)
Member of the Editor’s Board of the “Eurasian Legal Journal" (Moscow, Russia)

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