Gagik
Harutyunyan born March 23, 1948, v. Geghashen, Kotaik reg.,
Armenia. Graduated with honors from Yerevan State University , major in
economics (1970). Teaching at the Institute of National Economy, Yerevan
State University, 1973 - 1990.
Candidate of economic sciences (Ph.D.) (1975), Assistant Professor (1978), Doctor of Legal Science (1999). Research at the Belgrade University (SFRY), 1977 - 1978. Lecturer, Head of Socio-economic Department of Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia.
1990-1991 - deputy Chair of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Armenia.
In 1991, elected Vice-president of the Republic of Armenia. Acting Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, December 1991 - July 1992.
Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia, February 1996 to present. Chair of the Board of the Center of the Constitutional Law, Republic of Armenia.
Elected full member of the International Informatics Academy, December 1997, member of the International Association of Constitutional Law, November 1998.
Defended a doctoral thesis on the subject: "The Constitutional Court within the System of State Authority (a comparative analysis)", March 12, 1999.
Awarded the highest-class judge qualification by the decree of the President of the Republic of Armenia, April 23, 1998.
Coordinator of the Permanent Conference of the Bodies of Constitutional Review of the Countries of Emerging Democracy and Chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal "Constitutional review".
Author of over 80 scientific publications on issues of regional development, macroeconomic management and state administration, democratic development of society, constitutional law and constitutional review.
Arne
Mavcic, D. Law (born 4 August 1948), completed his Bachelor
of Law at the University of Ljubljana Law School, Slovenia in 1970, from
which, after having completed his post-graduate studies in civil law at
the Universities of Zagreb and Ljubljana Law Schools, he was awarded a
Doctorate of Law in 1979.
From 1970 to 1973 he was legal advisor to the Slovenian Parliament, from 1974 to 1977 he was Head of the International Department of the Slovenian Health Insurance Association. Since 1978 he has been the Director of the Legal Information Centre of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia, a Senior Expert Councillor to the University of Ljubljana Law School, specializing in legal information systems and constitutional law, and a Senior Expert Councillor to the Institute on Labor Law of the University of Ljubljana Law School.
Dr. Mavcic is the liaison officer for Slovenia on constitutional law and legal information systems to the (Venice) Commission for Democracy through Law under the Council of Europe, the liaison officer for Slovenia on constitutional law and legal information systems to the ACCPUF Paris, and Secretary of the Slovenian Constitutional Law Society, Secretary of the Slovenian Jurists Commission, a member of the Slovenian Labor Law and Social Security Association, a member of the International Constitutional Law Association, a member and the national President for Slovenia of the World Jurist Association, a member of the Law Association for Asia and the Pacific, a member of the Slovenian Informatics Society, an editor of the Collected Slovenian Constitutional Case-Law series, a member of the Editorial Council of the Slovenian Human Rights Journal Dignitas, national editor of the East European Case Reporter of Constitutional Law and national author for Slovenia of Kluwer's Encyclopedia of Constitutional Law.
He is the editor and
author of several other publications in the field of constitutional law
as well as an author of over 100 papers and reports on national and international
conferences, seminars and workshops. Of late, Dr. Mavcic has predominantly
been engaged in practical and promotional activities in the fields of comparative
constitutional judiciary and legal information systems.