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Jamlat Gvidiani

Gvidiani completed his bachelor's degree in law at the Law Faculty of Ivane Javakhishvili State University in 2010. 

After graduation, Gvidiani attended the Master's programme of the Georgian Technical University in the fields of public and constitutional law until 2013 and continued with a Master of Law (LL.M. in Cologne), which in turn lasted until 2014. 

In February 2022, Gvidiani began his doctoral studies at Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani University and has been continuing this work at the Academy for European Human Rights Protection since October 2023. As part of his stay at our academy, Gvidiani is being funded by the DAAD as a scholarship holder, which previously supported him in 2014 as part of an exchange programme. 

Gvidiani has been a lawyer and member of the Georgian Bar Association since 2017 and a member of the Human Rights and International Law Committee of the Georgian Bar Association since 2022. 

In 2022, Gvidiani founded the law firm JG - Law Office, where he is the managing director. Gvidiani is also a researcher at the Davit Batonishvili Institute of Law.

Areas of Research

  • Research areas
  • Public Law
  • Comparative law
  • Fundamental Rights
  • Constitutional procedural law
  • Human Rights Law
  • Procedural law

Past professional positions

  • Assistant at the public school in Tbilisi (2010-2011)
  • Intern in the National Enforcement Agency at the Ministry of Justice (2012)
  • Chief Specialist for Naturalisation and Migration Affairs at the Ministry of Justice, State Services Agency, Tbilisi (2015-2021)
  • Consultant of community centres for the Ministry of Justice, State Services Agency (2018)
  • Founder and Director of the Law Office "JG - Law Office" (since 2022)

Current research project

"Legal qualification of offence to religious feelings and its connection with freedom of expression."

Publications

Articles
  • PREJUDICATION IN THE CIVIL PROCEDURE LAW (FOR THE HERMENEUTICS OF THE ARTICLE 106 OF THE CIVIL PROCEDURE CODE OF GEORGIA), VOL. 7 NO. 1 (2023): LEGAL METHODS
  • The upper limit of the limitation period for the reopening of concluded proceedings and the standard set by the Constitutional Court", journal "Themida", 2022.
  • Reasons for the cancellation of a final court decision/judgment court decision/judgement ", Journals "ORBELIANI", 2023 (Submitted for publication)
Book chapters
  •  "Scope of protection of freedom of action in the practice of the Constitutional Court of Georgia", in the book: "Lado Chanturia 60" (anniversary edition), 2023. 
  •  "Constitutional Standard of Expression of Opinion: Georgian and European Perspective", in the book: "Giorgi Kverenchkhiladze 50", 2022.
Speeches
  • Conference "Challenges of Modern Public Law", report on the topic: "Political-legal aspects of the constitutional dispute between state bodies", International Society of Public Law ICON-S Georgia, Batumi, 2023
  • Conference "20 Years of Constitutional Agreement", Report on the topic: Church Property Rights to the Forests Around Churches and Monasteries, Institute for Religious Freedom, University of Georgia, Tbilisi, 2022.