Sophie Chachava
Dean of School of Law
Professor in Private Law
Professor in Private Law
Ms. Sophie Chachava was awarded a Ph.D. degree (2010) and Master's Degree in European Law (2002) from Tbilisi State University. She is co-director of the NVU Center for Leadership and Effective Communications and since 2011 also an academic director of the National Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution – NCADR at the TSU. Ms. Chachava also served as the expert-lawyer for the European Union project of “Civil and Administrative Reforms in Georgia” (2007), as the legal reform project lawyer for the German Technical Cooperation Society (2002-2005) and as Robert Bosch Foundation lecturer (Stuttgart, Germany, 2002-2004).
Publications
- Global Clinical Legal Education, 2025
- Commentary on Labor Code, Commentator, Co- Editor and Co-Author 2023
- Consumer Definition, My Attorney – GBA annual journal, 2021, N5
- Support to Public Administration Reform in Georgia”, Key Expert, Baseline assessment of labour dispute management and resolution practices in public institutions of Georgia UNDP/CSB 2018
- Exclusion of Conflicts of Interests by the Attorney while Preserving Confidentiality and Prioritizing Client Interests, (PROLoG/Ethics Chair/New Vision University) 2018
- Commentary on Constitutional Court’s Decision – “Presumption of Correctness of public register entries different standards for movable and immovable property justified?” (IDFI) 2017
- CCG – Commentary, Commentator of: Contract of Sales (Paragraph’s 477 – 520), Benevolent intervention in others affairs (Paragraph’s 969-975), Exercise of Rights (Paragraph’s 115-120), 2014 (GIZ/JILEP)
- “Necessity – Ground for Exclusion from Responsibility or Specific Ground of Claim?”, Besarion Zoidse Anniversary Edition, TSU, 2014
- “Case Study method in Civil Law”, Co-Author, (GIZ, IRZ, GYLA)
- “Termination of Labor Agreement (Termination of Labor Agreement by Intention and without party’s intention) – New Classification Embodied in Changes of 12 June, 2013”
- Labor Law Journal, Editor and Co-Author, (GIZ), 2014 Legal Aspects of Recent Changes to the Labor Law
- Labor Law Journal III, Editor and Co-Author of Case Analysis 2014
- Labor Law Journal I, TSU, Co-Author, “Regulation of Termination of Labor Law Contract in Georgian Law and Recommendations for Development of Case Law” 2011
- Management and efficient resolution of labor disputes in civil service, situational analysis and needs assessment, Sophie Tkemaladze, Sophio Chachava, 2018
- Competition of Claims in Civil Law, 2011 (212 pgs., PHD Work)
- Re-vindication (Restoration) of a Property from Illegal Possession, Case Law Review, Georgian Law Review, 7/2004-4, 761
- Motor Vehicle Sales Contract, Georgian Law Review, 7/2004-1, 115
- Comparative Analysis of Remedies, Georgian Law Review, Special Edition, 2004, 35
- Court Decisions Entered in to Force and their Revision, Georgian Law Review, 5/2002-4, 441
- Author of the Georgian Labor Law Gap Analyses and Recommendations, GYLA/EU 2011
- Editor and Co-Author of Teaching Videos in Mediation (NCADR, JILEP, STCL) 2014
- Co-Editor of Teaching Manual in Mediation (NCADR, JILEP, STCL) 2014