Gohar Simonyan
Head of Department for Prevention of Ill-treatment and Torture
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E-mail: gohar.simonyan@ombuds.am
Employees
EDUCATION
November 2012 to present - Ph.D. in Law (is expected by 2016), the Chair of Criminal Law, Law Faculty, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia
2010 – 2012 - Master of Laws in Criminal Procedure and Criminal Law (Master thesis: “Criminal and criminological features of robbery”), Law Faculty, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia
2006 – 2010 - Bachelor of Laws, Law Faculty, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia
WORK EXPERIENCE
September 2016 to present - Human Rights Defender's Office, Head of Department for the Prevention of Torture and Ill-treatment
September 2013 to present - Yerevan State University, Law Faculty, Criminal Law Chair, Assistant professor
March 2015 to present - Drafting New Penitentiary Code, Member of the working group appointed by the decree of the Minister of Justice of RA
March 2012 - September 2016 - Law Institute of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia State Non Commercial Organization, Legal expert
September 2015 - November 2015 - Drafting Law on Anti-discrimination by the initiative of Eurasia Partnership Foundation, Expert, member of the working group
December 2014 - September 2016 - Committee on "Legal awareness building and legal education system reform", Secretary of the committee appointed by the decree of the Minister of Justice of RA
June 2014 to present - Moot Courts with high school pupils from different regions of Armenia (Ijevan, Charentsavan, Masis) in the field of criminal law. National Centre for Legislative Regulation (NCLR), Instructor
October 2012 - December 2012, Judicial school of RA, Lecturer of the academic course ''Legal writing and analysis''
December 2012 -March 2013 - Project of the Armenian Representative Office of American Bar Association (ABA), The developer and implementer of the project (trainings with the students of the Yerevan State University Law Faculty on human rights-related institutes of the Draft New Criminal Procedure Code)
February 2009 - May 2010 - Yerevan State University, Law Faculty, Law Clinic, Legal adviser, judicial-representative