Faculty of Law and Social Sciences

Department of Law and Public Governance

Bsu
Adam Makharadze
Academic position: Professor
Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, Department of Law and Public Governance
Personal information
E-mail: adam.makharadze@bsu.edu.ge
      
Education
  • 18.03.2006 -  Doctor of Law , Law, Criminal Law, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
  • 28.06.1997 -  , ,
Field of scientific interests
Problems of Complicity in Crime, Aspects of the Subjective Elements of Crime, Trafficking, Domestic Violence, Conflict of Duties.
Work experience
  • 02.09.2019 - 16.09.2025 Professor , Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University;
  • 24.09.2018 - 24.09.2019 იურიდიული და სოციალურ მეცნიერებათა ფაკულტეტის დეკანის მოვალეობის შემსრულებელი , Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University
  • 01.10.2015 - 16.09.2019 Professor , Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University
  • 12.12.2014 - 24.09.2018 Dean of the Law Faculty , Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University
  • 01.10.2011 - 01.10.2015 Professor , Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University;
  • 03.03.2011 - 15.09.2014 Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Law , Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University
  • 28.10.2009 - 01.10.2011 Senior teacher , Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University
  • 02.09.2006 - 28.10.2009 Associate Professor , Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University
  • 20.09.2004 - 01.09.2006 Teacher , Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University
Published scientific works
  • Analysis of the Georgian legislative reform on domestic violence 
    Pravni Vjesnik, 3, 2025, 20
    Indexing: Scopus

  • , -, 2025, 36
    Indexing: other
  • Collision and Competition of Duties (Judicial and Scientific Preferences) 
    Journal of Kyiv University of Law, 4, 2024, 179-183 (Co-author(s): L.-G. KUTALIA )
    Indexing: Google Scholar
  • Conflict and Competition of Duties in Georgia: Judicial and Scientific Aspects 
    Pakistan Journal of Criminology , 15 (4), 2023, 293-310
    Indexing: Scopus
  • The Analogy of Law and Competition of Duty as a Circumstance Precluding Wrongfulness 
    Materials of International Scientific and Practical Conference "Russian-Ukrainian War: Law, security, World, 2022-06-10, 2022, 180-184
    Indexing: Google Scholar
Participation in scientific events
  • The Istanbul Convention and the Status of Its Implementation in the South Caucasus Countries;
    New Horizons: Strengthening Regional Cooperation Across EaP, South Caucasus and Central Asia, NGO "Youth Supreme Council" in collaboration with BSU, 2025, Georgia, Batumi
    Indexing: other
  • Georgian Criminal Law on Domestic Violence Against Women 
    The 9th International Conference on Research in Social Sciences (RSSCONF), RSSCONF, 2024, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (Co-author(s): Irakli Abashidze)
    Indexing: other
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    , , 2023,
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  • The Analogy of Law and Competition of Duty as a Circumstance Precluding Wrongfulness 
    International Scientific and Practical Conference "Russian-Ukrainian War: Law, security, World, Ternopil, Ukraine, 2022, Ternopil, Ukraine
    Indexing: Google Scholar
  • Преступление торговли людьми и его элементы в законодательстве Грузии 
    Online Scientific Roundtable "Human Trafficking" , Union of Law Scientists and Criminal Law Chair of Law Faculty of the National Aviation University of Ukraine, 2021, UKRAIN
    Indexing: other
Research grant projects
Ongoing/Completed
  • 04.2025 - 12.2026 -
    , project staff
  • 01.2025 - 12.2026 - Networking Conference
    University of St.Gallen, Center for Governance and Culture in Europe ( GCE-HSG), project staff
Other (non-scientific) grant projects
  • 03.2024 - 02.2027 - Austrian Development Agency’s Project „ Countering Violent Crime against Women and Girls“ (COVIOCRIM) , OeAD project no. 337  
    Austrian Development Agency’s Project , OeAD project no. 337 , other project staff
Other scientific activities
  • Involvement in international grant projects, 2026
  • Supervision of bachelor theses, 2025
  • Supervision of master`s theses, 2025
  • Master thesis review, 2025
  • Other activity, 2025 
  • Reviewing/editing the monograph, 2024
Internship, trainings, scholarship/award
Trainings
  • 17.02.2025 Research Ethics, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University
  • 30.09.2024 - 01.10.2024 COUNTERING VIOLENT CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS Interactive and interdisciplinary designed training with first responders to improve their ability to respond appropriately to incidents of VAWG. Including: Legal perspectives, Forensic medical knowledge, Criminological risk assessment , Specific aspects of VAWG, Austrian Development Agency and implemented by a consortium consisting of New Vision University, the University of Graz and Medical University of Graz . Conducted in Batumi
  • 28.09.2024 - 28.09.2024 Artificial Intelligence Tools in Education, Faculty of Education Sciences, Telavi State University named after Iakob Gogebashvili
  • 02.12.2019 - 07.12.2019 KA2- Special Mobility Strand, certificate of atandance, Canterbury Christ Church University, United Kingdom
  • 16.04.2018 - 21.04.2018 Innovation Pedagogy and Entrepreneurship, Taraz, Kazakhstan;
  • 05.07.2016 - 07.07.2016 Law teaching methodology and legal writing, Georgia, Batumi
  • 18.04.2016 - 22.04.2016 Young Research Seminar, Graz, Austria;
  • 25.07.2013 - 27.07.2013 Introducing Justice for Children Course in Georgian Universities” , Workshop is organized within the framework of the partnership project – “establishment of prevention and diversion services and increased professional specialization for juvenile offenders in Georgia,, supported by the embassy of the royal kingdom of the Netherlands,
  • 14.09.2011 - 14.09.2011 ტრენინგი ინტელექტუალური საკუთრების უფლებების შესახებ (IPR),, Economic Prosperity Initiative, USAID/GEORGIA, National Intellectual property Center of Georgia, Sakpatenti,
  • 06.07.2011 - 07.07.2011 “Master class on teaching methods-assessing beyond the final exams” , Judicial Independence and Legal Empowerment Project (JILEP), EAST WEST Management Institute
  • 11.05.2011 Master Class on Creating Law Practice Simulations in Large Classes, Judicial Independence and Legal Empowerment Project (JILEP), EAST WEST Management Institute, Tbilisi
Scholarship/Award
  • 04.10.2023 Honorary award for outstanding contribution to the development of legal education at BSU., BSU
  • 18.04.2018 - 18.04.2018 Title/Diploma of Honoured Doctor by the Academic Board Decision N5 fro April 18th, 2018 of Kyiv University of Law of the National Academi of Science of Ukraine, National Acadmy of Sciences of Ukraine Kyiv University of Law
  • 08.04.2015 - 08.04.2015 , National Acadmy of Sciences of Ukraine Kyiv University of Law
  • 27.07.2012 - 27.07.2012 Inclusion in the , Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University