LASHA LURSMANASHVILI

Predoctoral Research Fellow 

E-mail: lasha.lursm@gmail.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4937-4022

 

Main research areas:

Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Law, Human Rights Philosophy, International Human Rights Law.

 

Ongoing research projects:

Globalization and Georgian democracy

The Peremptory Nature of Non-Refoulement Obligation: Juridical Argument for Humanity

Education:

2019-present – LL.M. (Lund University, SI Scholar) in International Human Rights Law. LL.M. Thesis Title: The Peremptory Nature of Non-Refoulement Obligation: Juridical Argument for Humanity (Supervisor: Assoc. Professor Valentin Jeutner)

2015-2019 – LL.B. hons in Law (University of Georgia). Main field of study: law

Selected Publications:

Papers

• “Certain Skeptical Considerations on International Human Rights Law,” Law and World, (15) 2020, Volume 6, Issue 2, pp. 27-43.
• “Climate Change and Human Rights: Taking Things Seriously,” Jus Humanis Journal of Human Rights, (2) 2020, pp. 1-5.
• “Examining COVID-19 Implications in the Complex Human Rights Debate,” Jus Humanis Journal of Human Rights, (3) 2020, pp. 8-13.
• “The Role of the Friend of the Court (AMICUS CURIAE) in the process of legal proceedings”, Justice and Law, Vol. 1, 61, 2018, pp. 16-59 (with M. Kvachadze, N. Jugheli, E. Ghvindjilia).
• A standard of the national security in the asylum law on the basis of ECtHR: Access on the secret information according to the caselaw of ECtHR, Georgian and International Law Review, (1) 2019, pp. 122-168.
• “The problem of conducting a search and a seizure when indicated the consent of a co-owner in the context of a Criminal Procedural Law (Preferably on the basis of US Supreme Court Precedents)”. Legal Journal of Young Lawyers, 9 (6) (2018), pp. 69-80 (with I. Badzaghua).
• “Utilitarian analysis of Attorney-Client privilege in the context of Human Rights Protection Journal of Legal Ethics”, Georgian Law Review, 1 (1), 2018, 178-231.

Translations (in Georgian):

• Wolfgang Friedman, “Gustav Radbruch”, in: Journal of Legal Methods, (3) 2019, pp. 1-38 (with T. Janikashvili).
• Handbook on European law relating to access to justice, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights and Council of Europe, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2016. – Tbilisi: GIZ, 2018.
• Handbook on European law relating to the rights of the child, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights and Council of Europe, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2015. – Tbilisi: Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani University Press (Forthcoming).
• Ross Powell A. & Babcock G. (Eds.), Arguments for Liberty, Washington: Cato Institute, 2016. – Tbilisi: Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani University Press, edited by G. Tavadze and K. Goshadze (Forthcoming).
• Carlo Lottieri, “Natural Rights and Evolutionary Law” – Tbilisi: Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani University Press (Forthcoming).
• Ronald Dworkin, “Hard Cases,” in: Journal of Legal Methods (Forthcoming).
• Valentin Jeutner, “The Concept of a Legal Dilemma”, in: Journal of Legal Methods (Forthcoming).