Summer School Students Award Ceremony

On  July 17, 2010 the summer school students award ceremony was held at the Constitutional Court of Georgia.

The president of the Constitutional Court of Georgia, George Papuashvili and the representative of the European Law Academy, Malte Beyer awarded the participants of the Summer School with certificates and books.

Summer school on "Constitutional and Human Rights Law" was held at the Constitutional Court for two weeks.  30  law students of Bachelor and Master Studies and recent graduates of law faculties were lectured  on Constitutional Law, General Principles of the European Convention on Human Rights; Standards of the Constitutional Court of Georgia related to Criminal Procedure;  Rights and Freedoms under ECHR and International Law; Right of Fair Trial;  Prohibition of  Undue Pressure and Torture; ECHR and International standards of Crime Investigation..

The lectures were  conducted by Georgian and international experts in Constitutional and Human Rights Law, including judges of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court of Georgia, European Court of Human Rights, US Federal Court judges, as well as professors and lecturers from Queen's University of Belfast, University of Sussex, Utrecht University, Columbia Law School, etc.

Summer School was held by the Constitutional Court of Georgia and Academy of European Law (ERA), in cooperation with Ilia State University and Public Defender's Office of Georgia, The project was sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg and supported by British Council of Georgia