Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov

Bakhtiyar R. Tuzmukhamedov
Tuzmukhamedov in 2014
Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
In office 18 August 2009 – 21 December 2015
Appointed by	Ban Ki-moon
Personal details
Born	(1955-03-30) March 30, 1955 Moscow, Soviet Union
Parent	Rais Tuzmukhamedov (father)
Education	Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Harvard Law School
Occupation	lawyer, judge

Bakhtiyar Raisovich 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 from 18 August 2009 until 21 December 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

He was a longtime professor of international Law at the Diplomatic Academy in Moscow. Prior to that, from 1977 to 1984, he was a Research Fellow, at the Law of Sea Division, Institute of Merchant Marine.