Scientific Collection Dedicated to 30th Anniversary of Constitutional Court Published

A scientific collection has been published marking the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Constitutional Court of Georgia. The initiator of the publication and author of the foreword is the Chairman of the Court, Revaz Nadaraia. The information was disseminated by the Constitutional Court.

Materials and illustrations for the book were collected, an extensive scientific study was added, and it was prepared for publication by Beka Kantaria, Deputy Head of the Court's Department of Legal Support and Research, scientific journal editor, and professor.

The collection presents archival materials on constitutional control from the 1990s, publicistic articles, scientific articles by Georgian lawyers, interviews and illustrations. The publication also includes constitutional draft proposals submitted by political organizations, the initial versions of laws on the Constitutional Court, and materials on the formation of the Court's first composition and the judges' oath-taking on July 24, 1996.

In Beka Kantaria's study, the stages of the development of constitutional control in Georgia are consistently presented. It examines reports on constitutional control published in the Georgian press of the 19th century and views existing in the First Democratic Republic of Georgia, including the opinions of Giorgi Gvazava, a member of the Constituent Assembly and one of the authors of the Act of Independence of May 26, 1918. The book argues that Gvazava was the first Georgian lawyer who supported the introduction of constitutional control.

The study also describes the discourse on constitutional control in 1990-1996, examines the constitutional status of bodies exercising constitutional control and the peculiarities of their activities, including during the Soviet period. Special attention is paid to the activities of the Plenum of the Constitutional Court in 1996.

The second part of the collection contains works by well-known lawyers on current problems of law. Among them are Matthias Guyomar, President of the European Court of Human Rights, Lado Chanturia, judge of the same court and President of Section IV, Eva Gotsiridze, member of the Constitutional Court, and professors Merab Turava, Levan Izoria, Giorgi Khubua and Zurab Dzlierishvili.

According to the Constitutional Court, the aim of the collection is the scientific understanding of the history of constitutional control in Georgia, the presentation of the national legal heritage, and contributing to the development of Georgian legal science. An electronic version is available at the Ivերieli platform of the Ilia Chavchavadze National Parliamentary Library of Georgia.