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Author (s): Levan Aleksidze

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Levan Aleksidze (Georgian: ლევან ალექსიძე) (born 5 July 1926) is a Georgian jurist and expert on international law. He is a Professor of Tbilisi State University and Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences.

Levan Aleksidze was born in Tbilisi on July 5, 1926. In 1964 he graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Tbilisi State University. Since 1964 Levan Aleksidze has been Doctor of Law; Professor (1965); Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (1996); full member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences (2001). In 1964-1969 Levan Aleksidze served as an Assistant, Docent, Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Tbilisi State University; in 1969-1970 he was the Head of the Department of International Law. In 1970-1977 – Senior Officer at the Department of Human Rights of the United Nations Secretariat (New York, Geneva); 1970-1975 – Secretary of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities; 1975-1977 – Head of the Department of Consultancy Service and Special Tasks; Personal Representative of the UN Secretary General and an organizer at the inter-state seminars arranged by the section. Since 1970 Levan Aleksidze has delivered lectures on the persisting problems of international law at famous scientific and educational institutions, including the Emory and Boston Universities (the United States); the Humboldt University (Germany); the Hague Academy of International Law; the State Universities of Kiev, Azerbaijan and Armenia; the Academy of Human Rights (Greece); the State University of Latvia, etc. Since 1977 Levan Aleksidze has been Professor at the Tbilisi State University in the direction of international law. In 1985-1993 Levan Aleksidze was the first Vice-Rector of the Tbilisi State University. 1990-1991 – member of the Parliament of Georgia In 1991, Aleksidze, then a member of the Parliament of Georgia, drafted a power-sharing agreement that helped temporarily defuse growing tensions in the separatist region of Abkhazia.Aleksidze served for years as the former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze's adviser on the international law, but explicitly expressed his support to the opposition protests at the height of the 2003 Rose Revolution. In the mid-1990s, he also chaired the Georgia State Committee for Investigation of Facts of Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing of the Georgian Population in Abkhazia.