Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov is Professor of International Law, Candidate of Juridical Science, Vice-President of the Russian Association of International Law, Member of the Committee Against Torture for the 2018 – 2021 term. From 1992-2016 he was a senior staff member of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. He was a judge at the Appeals Chamber of the UN International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and for the former Yugoslavia from 2012-2015, prior to which from 2009-2012 he was a trial judge at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
He is a graduate of Moscow State Institute of International Law and Harvard Law School.
At various times he served as adviser with his country’s delegations to the United Nations Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and the Ad Hoc Committee on the Indian Ocean, Civil Affairs Officer with the United Nations Peace Forces in the former Yugoslavia, member of a group of experts of the UN Institute for Disarmament Research, member of the group of experts on the ICRC-sponsored Study of Customary Norms of International Humanitarian Law, member of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons Group of Governmental Experts on lethal autonomous weapons, etc.
His professorial experience includes teaching at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague Academy of International Law, University of Virginia School of Law, other universities in Russia and elsewhere.
He is a member of the American and European Societies of International Law, member of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, a founder and a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Law in the 21st Century Competition and Award, member of several other professional associations.
He has written extensively on international legal matters of international peace and security, international law in constitutional jurisdiction.
