Nona Zozoria

Nona Zozoria ( Georgian ნონა წოწორია , often in English transcription Nona Tsotsoria ; born April 13, 1973 in Batumi , Georgian SSR ) is a Georgian lawyer and legal scholar .

Life

Zozoria studied at the Law Faculty of Tbilisi State University from 1990 to 1996 . She then worked for three years as a judicial assistant at the Georgian Constitutional Court . In 1999 she returned to her alma mater and held lectures there on constitutional law and constitutional jurisdiction until 2004. In addition, between 1999 and 2000 she worked briefly as a lawyer at the law firm Kordsadze & Swanidze.

From 2000 to 2004 she worked first as a legal advisor and then as head of the Georgia Rule of Law Project, which was carried out by the IRIS Center of the University System of Maryland on behalf of the United States Agency for International Development and pursued the goal of To strengthen the authority of the law in Georgia. She gave up this position to take over the post of Deputy Attorney General, which she held until 2007. She obtained a Master of Governmental Administration from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007. On February 1, 2008, Zozoria succeeded Mindia Ugrechelidze at the European Court of Human Rights .

She was a member of a working group set up by the president to fight corruption and sat on the board of a foundation that campaigned for free elections in Georgia.

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• Georgian candidate proposal for the ECHR (PDF; 145 kB)
• Short biography with photo on the ECHR website
• Short biography on the Georgia Rule of Law Project website ( July 20, 2011 memento on the Internet Archive )