Doctor of Laws, Head of the Legal Department of the Office of the National Assembly of the Republic of Azerbaijan.  Awarded with the Order of Merit for the Motherland, 2nd degree, and Medal «For Distinction in Public Service» of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Expert, Terrorism Prevention Branch, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (Vienna, Austria), Member of the Rome International Criminal Court Study Group (Rome, Italy), Expert of the International Committee of the Red Cross (Geneva, Switzerland), and Special Rapporteur of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-speaking States on Terrorism (TÜRKPA).

Author of the monographs “European arrest warrant: law and practice”, M.: Norma, 2018, “Extradition in the international criminal law: problems of theory and practice”, M.: Wolters Kluwer, 2005, and “The Rome Statute and Domestic Legal Orders”, Vol. I. Constitutional Issues, Cooperation and Enforcement. Baden Baden: Nomos, 2005.

Education

1977-1982. Law Faculty of Baku State University

1985-1988. Graduate School of Law, Moscow State University

2005-2007. Doctorate programme in international law at the MGIMO University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Career:

1982-1985 - research intern at the Research Institute on the causes of crime and the development of crime prevention (Moscow)

1985-1988 - Graduate School of Law, Moscow State University (early defence of the thesis, September 1988)

1989-1991 - Head of the Sector of Criminal Law and Procedure Theory and Practice problems

1991-1992 - Vice-rector of the Institute for Advanced Training of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Azerbaijan

1992-1994 - Head of the International Legal Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Azerbaijan

1994-1998 - Deputy Head of the Department for Constitutional Law of the Office of the National Assembly of the Republic of Azerbaijan

For the period 1995-2000. Member and Deputy Chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Azerbaijan

1998 to present - Head of the Legal Department of the Office of the National Assembly of the Republic of Azerbaijan

International projects / work in international organizations

Since 2005 - Expert, Terrorism Prevention Branch, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (Vienna, Austria)

Member of the Rome International Criminal Court Study Group (Rome, Italy)

Expert of the International Committee of the Red Cross (Geneva, Switzerland)

Special Rapporteur of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-speaking States on Terrorism (TÜRKPA)

Invited lecturer at the MGIMO University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Moscow State Law University O.E. Kutafin.

Membership (professional organizations membership and membership to editorial boards)

Member of the editorial board of the Moscow Journal of International Law (publisher - MGIMO, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation).

Founder and editor of the Azerbaijan-Russian Journal of International and Comparative Law

Publications

Over 100 publications on various aspects of international and European law, international humanitarian law, international human rights law

Fields of Interest

• International law
• European Union law
• International humanitarian law
• International human rights law