Council of Europe

Ismayılov, Rövşən

I. Education and academic and other qualifications

• 1994 – Baku State University (Azerbaijan), Diploma in Laws with Honours of the First Class
• 2000 – Candidate of Legal Sciences (equivalent to PhD); Dissertation title: The Institution of Citizenship of the Republic of Azerbaijan Defended at Odessa National Law Academy, Ukraine
• September-November 1997 – participant in the Human Rights Law and Practice Programme organised by the Council of Europe at the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom)
• February-June 2002 – visiting scholar at Indiana University, USA, Fellow of Baku State–Indiana University Linkage Program; Research title: Use of American Experience in the Sphere of the First Amendment in Azerbaijan
• January-August 2005 – visiting scholar at Indiana University, USA, Fellow of Fulbright Program Research title: Political Rights in a Transition State and in a Failed State

II. Employment

• June 2010 to present – Judge, Constitutional Court of the Republic of Azerbaijan
• February 1997 to 2003 – Khazar University (Baku, Azerbaijan), School of Law, Adjunct Professor of Constitutional Law (Courses taught: Comparative Constitutional Law)
• September 1994 to present – Baku State University, Department of Constitutional Law, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Adjunct Professor of Constitutional Law (Courses taught: Constitutional Law, Human Rights Law, Constitutional Adjudication)

III. Other activities

•  January 2008 to present – Member, European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI)
•  February 2006 to June 2010 – Member, Central Election Commission of the Republic of Azerbaijan
•  September 2000 to 2009 – Baku State University, Legal Clinic, Human Rights Section Coordinator
•  1995 – Member, Working Group for drafting a new Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan

IV. Main publications

• The Institution of Citizenship of Republic of Azerbaijan. Baku, 2004 (monograph)
• Role of Constitutional Courts in Guaranteeing European Standards of Reasonable Length of Judicia Proceedings, 3 Herald of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Azerbaijan (2016)
• Problems of Realization of a Constitutional Right to Free Legal Aid, 1 Herald of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Azerbaijan 88 (2014)
• The Notion and Classification of Fundamental Principles of the Administration of Justice, 12 Actual Problems of Azerbaijani State and Law in Transition Period 67 (2005), [Baku]
• Principle of Public Judicial Proceedings in the Legislation of the Republic of Azerbaijan, 11 Actual Problems of Azerbaijani State and Law in Transition Period 67 (2005), [Baku]
• The Constitutional Principle of Independence of Judges in the Republic of Azerbaijan, 4 Azerbaijan Law Journal 4 (2004), [Baku]
• The Problem of Recognition of Azerbaijani Citizenship, State and Law, 165-172, (Kiev, 2000)
• The Principle of Equality in the New Azerbaijani Legislation on Citizenship, 5-6 Law 74 (1999), [Baku]
• International Concept of Nationality and Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 4 Law Herald, 80 (1998), [Odessa]
• Acquisition of a Citizenship by Descent: ius sanguinis or ius soli, 15-16 Law 80 (1998), [Baku]