Biography

Mindia Ugrekhelidze is a legal scholar, Doctor of Law and professor. He was Chairman of the Supreme Court of Georgia in 1990–1999 and the first Georgian judge at the European Court of Human Rights in 1999–2009. At Georgian Technical University he was Vice-Rector from 1986 and head of the Chair of Modern Law from 1995. In May 2021 he was appointed Special Adviser to the Minister of Justice of Georgia. He is a member of the GTU Supervisory Board.

Education

• Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Law – 1963

Scientific degree and rank

• Candidate of Legal Sciences, 1974
• Doctor of Law
• Professor

Work experience

• 1963–1976 – Institute of Economics and Law of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, junior, then senior research fellow
• Since 1975 – Tbilisi State University, associate professor (docent) at the Chair of Criminal Law
• Since 1986 – Georgian Technical University, Vice-Rector
• 1990–1999 – Chairman of the Supreme Court of Georgia
• Since 1995 – Georgian Technical University, head of the Chair of Modern Law
• 1999–2009 – Judge of the European Court of Human Rights
• Since 2009 – expert of the Tbilisi School of Political Studies operating within the Council of Europe system
• Since 2021 – Special Adviser to the Minister of Justice of Georgia

Awards, prizes

• Prize of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, 1991
• Title of Judge of the Highest Qualification, 1991
• Order of State Building, 1999
• Honorary Citizen of Tbilisi, 2022