Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov

Bakhtiyar R. Tuzmukhamedov (Russian: Бахтияр Раисович Тузмухамедов; born March 30, 1955) is a Russian international lawyer, who served as a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda until its closure on December 31, 2015.

Biography

Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov is the son of Rais Tuzmukhamedov, who was a leading Soviet international lawyer, specializing in national liberation and decolonization issues throughout the 1950s–1960s. Tuzmukhamedov attended the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, graduating in 1977. In 1983, he was conferred with a degree of the Candidate of Juridical Science. His candidate dissertation covered UN work with regard to the Indian Ocean peace zone proposal. In 1994, he received an LL.M. from Harvard Law School.

Professional life

A longtime professor of international Law at the Diplomatic Academy in Moscow, he has also served as a research fellow, senior research fellow, and associate professor of international Law at the academy.

He is a member of the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative Advisory Council, a project of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis to establish the world’s first treaty on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity.

References

• Harvard Law School. Bakhtiyar R. Tuzmukhamedov LL.M. ’94 named judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
• International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Judge Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov Sworn In