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Lyudvig Davtyan
PhD in Law, Advocate
Professional Membership
Since 2012 Dr. Lyudvig Davtyan is a member of the Chamber of Advocates of Armenia. He also coordinates the Scientific Analytical Centre of the Chamber since 2014.
Since August 2011 Dr. Davtyan is a member-expert at Swiss Comparative Law Institute of Lausanne.
Since 2014 Lyudvig Davtyan is a member of the board of the School of Advocates of the Republic of Armenia.
Education
Dr. Lyudvig Davtyan has graduated from the Law Faculty of Yerevan State University (YSU) in Armenia both Bachelor’s and Master’s degree with diplomas with honors. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Law by the Council at YSU in 2010.
2008-2009 Dr. Davtyan was an international doctoral researcher at the Forensic Science Institute of the Faculty of Law and Criminal Sciences of Lausanne University, Switzerland.
2011-2012 he was doing postdoctoral research at Lausanne University as an invited professor.
He is also an Alumni of the German-Caucasian Summer School “European Commercial Criminal Law”, DAAD, Humboldt University of Berlin, Batumi, Georgia (September 7-14, 2014).
Experience
Since July 2019 Lyudvig Davtyan is a partner lawyer of “Zohrabyan և Partners” Law Office
September 2017 – March 2018 – Deputy of the Head of the Public Defender’s Office of the Chamber of Advocates of the Republic of Armenia
October 2016 – September 2017 – Senior Lawyer at “Catherine Group” Co Ltd
February 2014 – October 2016 – Senior Legal Adviser at the Chief Compulsory Enforcement Officer of Armenia
November 2012 – February 2014 – Director of ““Femida” Law Office” LLC
Since 2014 – Professor at the European Regional Academy of Armenia
2011-2012 – Professor at the Yerevan Northern University
2010-2011 – Lawyer of the National Bureau of Expertises of NAS
2007-2009 – Lawyer at the European Integration Division of the Central Bank of Armenia
Publications and trainings
Books and manuals
2012
Davtyan, L., Yengibaryan, V., Chakhoyan, A. (2012). Theory of Forensic Expertise: Etymology, Actual Problems and Development Perspectives. Scientific Manual, Yerevan: Antares. (in Arm.).
Davtyan, L. (2012) Forensic Authorship Expertise: Analyze of Armenian Texts. Monograph. Saarbrücken (Germany): Lambert Academic Publishing. (in Russ.).
2005
Davtyan, L., Zadoyan, K., Abgaryan, D. (2005). Alternative Means of Solving Legal Problems. Yerevan: Lusakn (in Arm.)
Scientific articles
2012
Davtyan, L. (2012). Gathering and Admissibility of Cross-border Evidence in the European Union: Current Procedures of Cooperation in Criminal Matters. Judicial Power, Yerevan, No. 2 (151), pp. 13-15. (in Arm.).
Davtyan, L. (2012). Gathering and Admissibility of Cross-border Evidence in the European Union: Free Movement of Evidence in the EU. Judicial Power, Yerevan, No. 3-4. (152-153), pp. 61-67. (in Arm.).
Davtyan, L. (2012). Gathering and Admissibility of Expert Evidence in the European Union. Journal of Legality, Yerevan, No. 71, pp. 27-33. (in Arm.).
Davtyan, L. (2012). Free Movement of Cross-border Expert Evidence and its Mutual Admissibility in the European Union. Library of Forensic Scientist: Scientific Journal, Moscow, N3(4) 2012, pp. 353-364. (in Russ.).
Davtyan, L. (2012). Peculiarities of the Object of Forensic Authorship Expertise. Library of Forensic Scientist: Scientific Journal, Moscow, No. 2(3), pp. 118-129. (in Russ.).
Yengibaryan, V., Davtyan, L., Titanyan, E. (2012). The Role of Specialized Knowledge in Expert Evidence Acquisition in the Framework of International Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters. Judicial Power, Yerevan, No. 1 (150), pp. 48-55, Part 2. (in Arm.).
2011
Yengibaryan, V., Davtyan, L., Titanyan, E. (2011). The Role of Specialized Knowledge in Expert Evidence Acquisition in the Framework of International Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters. Judicial Power, Yerevan, No. 10-11 (147-148), pp. 86-95, Part 1. (in Arm.).
Yengibaryan, V., Davtyan, L. (2011). The Concepts of Forensic Expertise and Expert’s Report in the Republic of Armenia. Judicial Power, Yerevan, No. 9-10 (146-147), pp. 89-98. (in Arm.).
Davtyan, L. (2011). Coo-relation between Forensic Authorship Identification and Forensic Phonetic Expertise. Library of Forensic Scientist: Scientific Journal, Moscow, No. 1, pp. 109-116. (in Russ.).
2010
Davtyan, L. (2010). The Evaluation of Scientific Justification and Trustworthiness of Expert Report on Forensic Author Identification by the Body in Charge of Criminal Proceedings, Journal of Legality, Yerevan, No. 60, pp. 23-30. (in Arm.).
Davtyan, L. (2010). The Notions of Forensic Authorship Identification and Forensic Phonetics and their Coo-relations, Judicial Power, Yerevan, No. 10-11 (135-136), pp. 98-106. (in Arm.).
Davtyan, L. (2010). Definition, Components and Criteria of Expert Report Evaluation on Forensic Author Identification, Journal of Legality, Yerevan, No. 58, pp. 19-25. (in Arm.).
Davtyan, L. (2010). The Tasks of Forensic Authorship Identification of Armenian Texts and their Contents, Journal of State and Law. Yerevan, No. 1 (47), pp. 40-48. (in Arm.).
Davtyan, L. (2010). Notion of Forensic Authorship Identification and its Place in Forensic Science in the Republic of Armenia, International Legal Scientific Journal of Law and Reality, Yerevan, No. 4 (174), pp. 21-28. (in Arm.).
2009
Davtyan, L. (2009). Definition and Peculiarities of the Methodology of Forensic Authorship Identification, Journal of State and Right, Yerevan, No. 4 (46), pp. 47-52. (in Arm.).
Davtyan, L. (2009). The Coo-relation Between Forensic Authorship Identification and Handwriting Examination, International Legal Scientific Journal of Law and Reality, Yerevan, No. 10 (168) , pp. 27-29. (in Arm.).
2008
Davtyan, L. (2008). Necessity of Realizing Forensic Authorship Identification. Tout droit: special 300e de la facultè de droit: bulletin des étudiants en Droit. UNIL, Lausanne, pp. 22-23. (in Eng.).
Davtyan, L. (2008). Forensic Authorship Identification in the Republic of Armenia, Legal Newsletter, Yerevan, 2008, No. 1 (20), pp. 22-23. (in Arm.).
Davtyan, L. (2008). Forensic Linguistic Expertise in the Republic of Armenia, Right Newsletter, Yerevan, No. 4 (156), pp. 17-18. (in Arm.).
Davtyan, L. (2008). The Right of Defense and Legal Assistance: European Criteria and Armenian Legislation, Journal for Justice, Vanadzor, Armenia, No. 1 (64), pp. 19-23. (in Arm.).
2007
Davtyan, L. (2007). The Principle of Humanism in Criminal Procedure, Legal Newsletter, Yerevan, No. 7-11 (14-18), pp. 9-10. (in Arm.).
Davtyan, L. (2007). Some Constitutional Regulations of Freedom and immunities of an Individual, Legal Newsletter, Yerevan, No. 2, pp. 6-7. (in Arm.).
2005-2006
Davtyan, L. (2006). Constitutional Guaranties and Basis of Freedom of Person, International Legal Scientific Journal of Law and Reality, Yerevan, No. 12 (134), pp. 33-34. (in Arm.).
Davtyan, L. (2005). Peculiarities of Criminal Liability for Pre-criminal Action in Accordance with the Criminal Code of RA. International Legal Scientific Journal of Law and Reality, Yerevan, No. 9 (119), pp. 17-21. (in Arm.).
Conference materials
Davtyan, L. (2006). Are ‘in Accordance with the Law’ and ‘Set by Law’ Authentic?” Materials of “Constitution and Right” Republican 6th olympiad organized by the Center of Constitutional Rights, Legal Newsletter, Yerevan, No. 2, p. 5. (in Arm.).
Davtyan, L. (2005). Taking into Hostage: Criminal Qualification in Accordance with Criminal Code of RA. Materials of Conference of “Integration of European Values into Armenia”. Journal for Justice, Vanadzor, 2005, No. 3 (53), pp. 2-5. (in Arm.).
Davtyan, L. (2004). Advocate’s Institute, Present Situation and Development Perspectives in Armenia. Materials of Every-year Scientific Competition, Yerevan, pp. 3-22. (in Arm.).
Certificates and Awards
March – April, 2017, Course on the Admissibility of Evidence in Criminal Proceedings, European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP), European Union, European Council, Yerevan, Armenia
9-11 June, 2017, VII International Scientific and Practical Conference on the Enforcement of Judicial Acts and Acts of other Authorized Bodies, Ufa, Russia
April, 2016, Course on the Legal Methodology and Administrative Law, “Gevorg Gyozalyan” Law Office, Yerevan, Armenia
September 7-14, 2014, Alumni of the German-Caucasian Summer School “European Commercial Criminal
Law”, DAAD, Humboldt University of Berlin, Batumi, Georgia
Certificates and awards