Konstantine Vardzelashvili
Konstantine Vardzelashvili
Former Vice President of the Constitutional Court of GeorgiaBorn on July 26, 1972 in Tbilisi.
Graduated with honors from the Faculty of History of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (1994). Received a Master of Science (MA) degree in History from the Faculty of History of the Central European University in Budapest (1994-1995).
In 1996-1997, he conducted scientific research at the University of Edinburgh as part of a doctoral course in social sciences.
In 1997, he lectured at the Summer School for the Study of Nationalism at the University of Edinburgh.
Graduated with honors from the Tbilisi Law Institute (2002). He worked at the Liberty Institute as the head of the Human Rights Protection, Legal Education and Media Development Program (1998-1999). He was a member of the Analytical Group of the Reform Support Agency of the Open Society Foundations - Georgia Program (2000-2001).
In 2000-2002, he was a member of the Supervisory Board of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia, and in 2002-2003, a member of the Working Group on Legal Reform of Communications and Broadcasting.
In 2001-2004, he was the head of the British Council's legal reform (criminal justice reform) and legal education programs, training courses on international and national human rights instruments, and curator of the Georgian Prosecutor's Office Reform Project.
In 2004-2006, he worked as the Deputy Minister of Justice of Georgia.
On July 14, 2006, he was appointed as a member of the Constitutional Court of Georgia by the President of Georgia, and on September 30, 2006, from the day of taking the oath, he began to exercise his powers.
On October 2, 2006 and September 21, 2011, he was elected Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Court and Chairman of the First Chamber by the Plenum of the Constitutional Court of Georgia.
In 2009, he was appointed as an Ad Hoc Judge of the European Court of Human Rights. Since 2007, he has been a substitute member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission).
Since October 2012, he has been a member of the UN Human Rights Committee, in 2014-2015 he was the Deputy Chairperson of the UN Human Rights Committee, and since March 2015 he has been the Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Committee.
From 2010 to 2013, he was a visiting lecturer at the Free University. Since 2012, he has been a professor at Ilia State University, and since 2013, he has been an associate professor at the Free University.
From 2008 to 2011, he also lectured on “Constitutional Rights in Criminal Procedural Legislation”; “Freedom of Expression and Religion”; “Right to Property”. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal “Constitutional Court Review” (a quarterly law journal). He is the author of several scientific works.
Speaks English and Russian.
Has a wife and one child.