Chair of Constitutional Law

The Chair of Constitutional Law was founded in 1968. It used to have different names: state law and Soviet construction, state and administrative law, as well as constitutional and international law. On June 8, 2006, it was renamed the Chair of Constitutional Law.

Candidate of legal science, associate professor S. A. Osipyan, an honored figure of the science of ASSR, professor A. A. Yesayan, candidate of legal science, associate professor A.S. Lalayan, doctor of legal science, professor V.R. Nazaryan, Doctor of legal science, Professor N.A. Ayvazyan, Doctor of legal science, Professor G.B. Danielyan led the Chair during different years. YSU Academic Council chose Professor N.A. Ayvazyan as the honorary head of the chair for his significant contribution during his long tenure as the head of the Chair of Constitutional Law.

The chair includes theorists, as well as well-known and experienced jurists of the judicial and executive authorities, and law enforcement agencies, including those with teaching experience.

Scientific research activities are mainly carried out in the framework of constitutional and legal regulation, identification of systemic conflicts, systematization of constitutionality, structuring of transitional statehood, the constitutionality of the economy, adequate understanding and realization of the fundamental principles of the Constitution, constitutional justice, domestic structures of human rights protection, improvement of the status and activity of public authorities, administration, and administrative proceedings, as well as in the direction of improvement of local self-government.

The chair is, in fact, an all-university chair, as it also carries out educational activities in the faculties of International Relations, Political Science, Journalism, and Economics of YSU.

The chair has done significant work in the direction of creating educational literature in the mother tongue. In particular, the textbooks "Constitutional Law of the Republic of Armenia", and "Administrative Responsibility in the Republic of Armenia", as well as "Administrative Law in the RA Legal System" (lecture course), "Administrative Law of the Republic of Armenia", "Human Rights", "Constitutional Control", "Administrative Litigation and Procedure", "Municipal Law", and  "Financial Law of the Republic of Armenia" educational manuals were published.

The members of the chair regularly speak at international and national conferences and seminars and have published a number of monographs and many scientific articles. At the same time, they participate in legal comparative studies initiated by various international scientific and educational institutions.

The chair performs constitutional monitoring of the political and legal global processes taking place in the republic.

The chair offers the "Human Rights and Constitutional Justice" Master's educational program.