Iakob Putkaradze
Iakob Putkaradze
Former Vice President of the Constitutional Court of GeorgiaHe was born on September 23, 1935 in the village of Inashauri, Vani region.
Graduated from the Faculty of Law of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, postgraduate studies at the Georgian Academy of Sciences.
He is a Doctor of Law.
Since 1959, he has worked in the system of the Georgian Academy of Sciences. He was the head of the department of the Institute of State and Law; deputy director and later director; member of the State Constitutional Commission; Chairman of the Constitutional Legislation Subcommittee of the State Commission for Legal Reform; Senior Scientific Editor of the Law Department of the Georgian Encyclopedia. He lectured at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. He researched the problems of Georgian law and statehood.
He is the author of about a thousand publications (monographic studies, articles in scientific collections, legal journals, and various volumes of the Georgian Encyclopedia).
On June 25, 1996, the Parliament of Georgia elected him as a member of the Constitutional Court of Georgia.
On August 15, 1996, he was elected as a Vice President of the Constitutional Court and at the same time as the Chairman of the First Collegium for a term of 5 years.
In 1999, by the decree of the President of Georgia, he was awarded the class rank of judge of the highest qualification class.
Since 2002, he has been a Doctor of Laws.
On November 25, 2004, he was elected Secretary of the Constitutional Court of Georgia.
He has a wife, two children, and five grandchildren.