Ushangi Bakhtadze
Affiliate Professor
Doctor of Law, Affilate Professor
E-mail: u.bakhtadze@sabauni.edu.ge
Affilate 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.