Direction:Public Law
Position:Associate Professor
Tamta Mikeladze has Master’s degree in Public law. She graduated law school at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University in 2008 (2002-2006 Bachelor of Law, 2006-2008 Master of Public Law).
Tamta Mikeladze is founder and Equality Policy Programme director at the local Civil Society Organization – Human Rights Education and Monitoring Center (EMC). Her working topics are: antidiscrimination policy, religious freedom and issues related secularism, Ethnic minorities, LGBTI rights, Freedom of expression, Freedom of assembly.
Since 2015 to present Tamta Mikeladze is Associate Professor at Ilia State University.
In 2009 – 2013 she worked as a strategic litigation lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights and as a human rights researcher at Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA). In 2009 she worked as Advisor to the National Security Council. In 2005-2009 she was advisor at the Department for State Representation at the European Court of Human Rights of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia.
In 2008 – 2011 she was working as invited lecturer in Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Caucasus School of Law (CSL), Agricultural University of Georgia.
Scientific interests / research interests
Report 26 May – analysis of Human Rights Violations during and related to the Dispersal of the May 26 Assembly, Supervisor and co-author, Georgian Young Lawyers Association, 2011, available at: http://gyla.ge/uploads/publications/2011/26_maisi_geo.pdf
Crisis of secularism and Loyalty towards the dominant group (The role of the Government in the 2012-2013 religious conflicts in Georgia), Author, Human rights Education and Monitoring Center (EMC), 2013, (available at: http://emc.org.ge/2013/12/05/25/ )
Crisis of secularism and loyalty towards the dominant group, Author, “Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe” (OPREE), George Fox University | Christian College in Oregon, USA, 2014
Non-recognition, inactivity and repression substituting a home (An Analysis of state policy and the human rights situation of vulnerable homeless families occupying state owned property), Supervisor and co-author, Human rights Education and Monitoring Center (EMC), 2014 (available at: http://bit.ly/XmOi5S );
Legal situation of LGBTI persons in Georgia – editor, Human rights Education and Monitoring Center (EMC), 2016, available at: https://emc.org.ge/2016/06/03/emc-78/
Financing of religious organizations in Georgia in 2014-2015, Supervisor, Human rights Education and Monitoring Center (EMC), Tolerance and Diversity Institute (TDI), 2016, available at: https://emc.org.ge/2016/07/16/emc-101/
Freedom of Religion – Critique of Discriminatory and Nonsecular state policy, Supervisor and co-author, Human rights Education and Monitoring Center (EMC), 2017, (available at: https://emc.org.ge/2017/03/26/emcr/ )
Public Defender as an equality mechanism, Supervisor and co-author, Human rights Education and Monitoring Center (EMC), 2017, (available at: https://emc.org.ge/2017/08/01/emc-343/ )
Repression Beyond Borders: exiled Azerbaijanis in Georgia, coordinator, Human rights Education and Monitoring Center (EMC), International partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), Freedom Now, 2017, available at: https://emc.org.ge/2017/09/26/emc-360/
Current Courses |
Course Catalog |
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| Human Rights Law; Freedom of Religion and Secularism – Legal Perspective; Integration politics of ethnic minorities in Georgia – paradigms, contexts and challenges Introduction to Jurisprudence |
Iv. JAVAKHISHVILI Tbilisi State University, Theory of law, 2008-2009 (Bachelor’s degree); Caucasus School of Law (CSL), Introduction in constitutional and administrative law, 2009 (Master’s degree); Foundation for the Support of Legal Education, Georgian Young Lawyers Association, philosophy of law, 2010-2011, (Master’s degree); Agricultural University of Georgia, Theory of law and methods of law, 2013-2014 (Master’s degree); Additional Information |