Lado Chanturia

Section IV President at the ECHR

Lado Chanturia has been a judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg since January 2018. In 2024, he was elected President of Section IV.

Before his election to the ECHR, he was Ambassador of Georgia to the Federal Republic of Germany (2014-2018), President of the Supreme Court of Georgia (1999-2004), Minister of Justice of Georgia (1998-1999), member of the State Commission which drafted the Constitution of Georgia (1992-1995) and member of the Private Law Reform State Commission which drafted the Civil Code of Georgia with the active participation of Bremen University professors (Professor Rolf Knieper) (1991-1997).

Since 1995, he has been Professor of Private and Comparative Law at Ivane Javakhishvili Universität in Tiflis. He had a DAAD fellowship at Georg-August-University, Göttingen (1991-1993) and a research fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Hamburg Max Planck Institute of Foreign and International Private Law (2004-2006). From 2004 to 2006 he was Director of the Project “Civil and Economic Law in the Countries of the Central Asia and Caucasus” at the University of Bremen. He was Visiting Lecturer at the Institute for Eastern European Law, Christian-Albrechts-Univertiy in Kiel (2011-2014) and Senior Advisor of the German International Cooperation (GIZ) in field of Legal and Judicial Reforms (2009-2011).

Since 2015 he has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. Since 2023 he has been a member of Academia Europeae.