Lado Chanturia

Lado Tschanturia (2015)

Lado Tschanturia ( Georgian ლადო ჭანტურია ; English transcription Lado Chanturia ; born April 14, 1963 in Jvari , Georgian SSR ) is a Georgian legal scholar and diplomat . From 2014 to 2018 he was the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Georgia to the Federal Republic of Germany . He has been a judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg since January 8, 2018 .

He has been a professor at the State University of Tbilisi since 1995 and visiting professor at the Institute for Eastern European Law at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel since April 2011 .

Life

In addition to his academic work, Lado Tschanturia's career includes many years of experience in politics and the judiciary. Tschanturia studied law at the State University of Tbilisi , received his doctorate in 1989 at the Institute for Legislative and Comparative Law in Moscow and completed his habilitation in 1994. From 1998 to 1999 he was Minister of Justice of Georgia, then until 2004 President of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

From February 19, 2014 to 2018, he was the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Georgia to the Federal Republic of Germany . During this time he was on the road a lot in Germany, among other things he took care of town twinning such as Biberach - Telawi . On January 8, 2018, he was appointed judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

Stations

1980–1985 studied law at the State University of Tbilisi
1985–1990 assistant at the Law Faculty of Tbilisi State University
1989 doctorate on a subject of contract law at the Institute for Legislation and Comparative Law, Moscow
1989–1995 lecturer at the Law Faculty of Tbilisi State University
1991–1993 research fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the University of Göttingen for the preparation of the habilitation thesis
1994 Habilitation at the State University of Tbilisi on ownership of immovable property using the example of German law

1995 - Professor of Private Law at Tbilisi State University

1997–2004 member of the Supreme Judicial Council of Georgia

1998–1999 Minister of Justice of Georgia

1999–2004 President of the Supreme Court of Georgia

2004–2006 research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg

2006–2009 head of the research project civil and commercial law in the states of the Caucasus and Central Asia at the University of Bremen

2009–2011 Senior Advisor of the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) for questions of legal reform in the states of the Caucasus and Central Asia

2011-2013 DAAD guest lecturer at the University of Kiel (Institute for Eastern European Law)

2014–2018 Ambassador of Georgia to Germany

Since 2018 judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg

Private

Lado Tschanturia is married to Dali Tschanturia. You have two children. Tschanturia speaks Georgian as his mother tongue as well as German, English and Russian. Tschanturia's interests are broad. His hobbies include: literature, soccer and traveling. He is also a passionate wall plate collector.

Awards

1996 George Shultz Prize for Young Scientists

2004 Recognized by the American Bar Association with the “Reformer's Award in Recognition of Extraordinary Efforts in Promoting the Rule of Law”

2006 Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

2012 Honorary Doctorate from David-Agmashenebeli University of Georgia

2013 Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Law at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel

Publications

Ownership of immovable property. A comparative law analysis using the example of German law (in Georgisch, Tiflis, 1994, habilitation thesis)
Introduction to the General Part of Georgian Civil Law (in Georgian, Tbilisi, 1997)
Property as a means of securing a loan (in Georgian, Tbilisi, 1999)
Judicial Reform. The Georgian Experience (in English, Tbilisi, 2002)
Commentary on the Law on Commercial Entrepreneurs (in Georgian, Tbilisi, 2003)
Freedom and responsibility. Law and Jurisdiction of the Post-Soviet Era (in Russian, Tbilisi, 2004)
Corporate Governance and Ladder Liability in Company Law (in Georgian, Tbilisi, 2006)
Introduction to the General Part of Civil Law (in Russian, Moscow, 2006)
Private law in the Caucasus and Central Asia: inventory and development (Berlin, 2010)
Commentary on the Civil Code of Georgia in 6 volumes (in Georgian, Tbilisi, 1999-2000)
The Europeanization of Georgian Law - A Mere Wish or a Big Challenge? in Rabel's magazine 2010, 154
Georgia: Corporate governance of business corporations , in Fleckner / Hopt (ed.), Comparative Corporate Governance. A Functional and International Analysis, Cambridge University Press 2013, pp. 504-520 (with George Jugeli)
Civil law in the countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia , in WiRO - Economy and Law in Eastern Europe, 3/2013, pp. 74–77.
Model Law on Joint Stock Companies for CIS Countries and Corporate Governance , in South Caucasus Law Journal, Vol. 03/2012, p. 198-205.
Commentary on the CIS 2010 Model Law 'On Joint-Stock Companies' , October 2010, Chapter VII. Corporate Bodies. in Review of Central and East European Law, Volume 36, 2011, pp. 246-264.
Requirements for successful legal cooperation from the point of view of the transformation societies . In: Herbert Küpper, Wolfgang Brenn (Ed.): Legal transfer and international legal cooperation. German and Japanese experience in cooperation with Eastern Europe and Central Asia . Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Vienna, 2010. pp. 117–133. Studies of the Institute for Eastern Law Munich, Vol. 64 .

Web links

Commons : Lado Chanturia - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ ECHR: Composition of the ECHR - Judges, Sections, Grand Chamber. Retrieved July 17, 2018 .
↑ Promotion of the town twinning between Biberach and Telawi was the topic in Berlin . on biberach-riss.de (January 1, 1970); accessed on November 16, 2018.

personal data
SURNAME	Tschanturia, Lado
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Chanturia, Lado; ლადო ჭანტურია (Georgian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Georgian legal scholar and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	April 14, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jvari , Georgian SSR

[1] ECHR: Composition of the ECHR - Judges, Sections, Grand Chamber. Retrieved July 17, 2018 .

[2] Promotion of the town twinning between Biberach and Telawi was the topic in Berlin . on biberach-riss.de (January 1, 1970); accessed on November 16, 2018.