Avakyan, Suren Adibekovich

Born in the family of a migrant from the city of Gavar, Adibek Avakyan. In 1963 he graduated with honors from the Law Faculty of Moscow State University. He studied at the correspondence graduate school of the same university. In 1970 he defended his thesis “Issues of legal regulation of the activities of local Councils”; in 1980 - doctoral dissertation "Legal regulation of the activities of representative authorities in the USSR (problems of theory and practice)."

Since 1971, he worked at the Faculty of Law of Moscow State University as a senior researcher , associate professor . Since 1983 - professor, since 1994 - head of the department of constitutional law (since 2001 - constitutional and municipal law), Faculty of Law, Moscow State University.

S. A. Avakyan gives a course on constitutional law of Russia and special courses on the issues of judicial resolution of constitutional disputes, Russian parliamentarism, constitutional and legal foundations of modern political development of Russia.

He was a member of working groups on the preparation of a number of laws of the USSR, the RSFSR, the Russian Federation, and Moscow.

Currently, he is a co-chair of the Scientific and Expert Council on Constitutional Legislation under the Chairman of the State Duma, a member of the Scientific and Expert Council under the Chairman of the Council of the Federation, Scientific and Methodological Councils at the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation and the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation.

S. A. Avakyan is one of the leading Russian scholars in the field of constitutional and municipal law. She has more than 225 scientific publications, including 7 monographs , 9 scientific brochures, chapters in 9 collective monographs, 2 textbooks, 3 study guides, 106 scientific articles, 11 teaching aids; He took part in the preparation of 5 legal directories and commentaries, etc. A number of his works were published in German, English, Dutch, Hungarian, and Uzbek.

The most famous publications of recent years: “Political pluralism and public associations in the Russian Federation: constitutional and legal foundations” (M., 1996); “The Federal Assembly - the Parliament of Russia” (M., 1999); “The Constitution of Russia: nature, evolution, modernity” (M., 1997, 2000); "Constitutional law. Encyclopedic Dictionary ”(author, leader of the team.) (M., 2000); “Bibliography on constitutional and municipal law” (M., 2002); “Russia: citizenship, foreigners, external migration” (St. Petersburg, 2003). In 2010, the updated course "Constitutional Law of Russia" was released.

Editor-in-chief of the journal “Constitutional and municipal law”.

Member of the editorial board of the journal State and Law and the Law series of Vestnik ChelGU ^[2] .

Member of the editorial board of the journal Law and State .

Married, has one daughter, two grandchildren, great-granddaughter.

• Honorary title “ Honored Worker of Science of the Russian Federation ” ( 2000 ) - for merits in scientific activity ^[3]
• Prize named after A. F. Kony RAS (2003) - for the monograph “The Constitution of Russia: nature, evolution, modernity”
• The honorary title “ Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation ” - for his merits in the development of legal sciences and the training of qualified specialists ^[4]