Tamar Dekanosidze
LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex (Colchester, UK).

Tamar Dekanosidze is a Lawyer and a Project Coordinator at the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association. She does strategic human rights litigation and focuses on women’s rights, non-discrimination and health rights. She currently litigates femicide and gender-based violence cases at the European Court of Human Rights and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. Her major research interest is the feminist critique of the law.

Tamar has worked at various human rights organizations in Georgia, Kosovo, UK and US. She is an attorney of general specialization and works as an invited lecturer in human rights at local universities.

Research Interests: Feminist legal theories, femicide, gender-based violence, reproductive rights, marginalized women, health and human rights, discrimination, European Convention on Human Rights.