RUSUDAN MCHEDLISHVILI - Member of the Board

Rusudan Mchedlishvili has been working at the position of a lawyer at "Rights Georgia (then "Article 42 of the Constitution") since 2004. On July 2, 2021, Ms. Mchedlishvili was elected to the organization's board for a two-year term. 

Education:

2000-2005 graduated Tbilisi State Institute of Business, Faculty of Law; academic degree equivalent to Master.

From 2017 to July 2018, the Council of Europe Training Program (ILIA / HELP 2017) on the complaints criteria filed in the European Court of Human Rights. "International Law on the Protection of Public Interest" (ILIA Program).

Work experience:

Rusudan is mainly employed in civil and administrative law, although she has experience working with strategic, constitutional, and taxation proceedings.

From March 2014 till March 2018, she worked as a lawyer in the NED project of the Human Rights House Tbilisi, which provided support for activists expelled from Azerbaijan.

Since March 2019 she has been working as a Legal Consultant on the UNHCR project – “Protection and strengthening of refugees, persons with humanitarian status and asylum seekers in Georgia".

She co-authored:
"Procedures for granting refugee and humanitarian status";
Monitoring of the amount of money spent and mobilized for the elimination of damages caused by the disaster in Tbilisi on 13-14 June 2015; Research "Aggressive State Property Privatization Policy or “Georgian-style Privatization"; "Research on existing legislation and practices in the business sphere"; "Use of preventive measures in criminal proceedings” - legislation and practice research; “Research of Legislation and Practice in the Procedural Agreement in Criminal Procedure;" Women's Legal Guide; Report on  “Activities of the Constitutional Court of Georgia and the constitutional control in Georgia."

Languages: Georgian, English, Russian