Ushangi Bakhtadze

Affiliate Professor

Doctor of Law, Affiliate Professor

Professor of Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani University, Head of the Center for Crime and Criminal Justice of Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani University. In 2020 he defended his dissertation on the topic - "Criminological Analysis of the Criminalization." He is a Master of Science in Criminology at the University of Oxford. Since 2009 he has been a member of the Georgian Bar Association and is a founding and managing partner of the law firm Jorbenadze & Gatserelia Counsellors. Since 2013 he has been a lecturer in criminology and criminal law. He has been working at Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani University since 2015. Main areas of his research are: crime, causes of crime, crime prevention and control, crime and media.

Courses

Criminology
Crime and the Media
Crime Prevention
Victimology
Criminal Law – General Part
Criminal Law – Private Part

Publications

Books

Sentencing Guidelines: Main Principles, Supreme Court of Georgia Publishing, 2017
Handbook of Media Law, Prince David Institute for Law Publishing, 2014

Articles

Is prohibition of criminalisation a human right? Konstantine Korkeliea (ed), Protection of Human Rights and Responsibility of the State, Ivane Javakhisvhili Tbilisi State University, 2019.
Moral limits of Criminalisation, Essays in Honor of Sergo Jorbenadze, Prince David Institute for Law Publishing. 2019.

Bakhtadze, Ushangi, Does Sentence Reduction for a Guilty Plea Undermine Proportionality in Sentencing and Should It Be Abolished? (July 1, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3412959 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3412959
Adolescent Violence Towards Parents: Is it More Complex Form of Family Violence? (July 18, 2016). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2811095 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2811095
Penology and its main directions, Journal of Criminology, 1 (2016), Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Law, Institute of Criminology.
Investigating Adolescent Violence Towards Parents, South Caucasus Law Journal: Right to a Fair Trial, 06/2015.
Investigating Adolescent Violence towards Parents, South Caucasus Law Journal: Right to a fair trial, 2015.
Alternative Dispute Resolutions: Is it Possible to Combine Mediation and Arbitration? Private Law Review, Prince David Institute for Law Publishing, 2015.
Critical Analyses of the Relationship between the Police and the Media in England and Wales, Essays in Honor of Lado Chanturia, Prince David Institute for Law Publishing, 2014.
Is Prostitution a Victimless Crime? (May 26, 2013). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2372009 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2372009

Translations

Preventing Crime: A Holistic Approach, Preventing Crime: A Holistic Approach Book by Tore Bjørgo, The Georgian-Norwegian Rule of Law Association, 2019.
Limits to Pain: The Role of Punishment in Penal Policy, Limits to Pain: The Role of Punishment in Penal Policy,1981. Book by Nils Christie. The Georgian-Norwegian Rule of Law Association, 2017.