Biography

Irakli Shamatava, PhD in Law, is Editor-in-Chief of the Caucasus Law Journal and an Affiliated Associate Professor at Caucasus University. At International Black Sea University, he is a Professor and previously served as Dean of the School of Law and State Governance, Head of the Bachelor’s Programme in Public Administration and Governance, and Editor-in-Chief of the Contemporary Law Journal (2024–2025). Since 2026, he has also been a member of the International Editorial Team of the European Scientific Journal (ESJ).

He holds a PhD in Law from Caucasus University (2022). In 2024, he published a monograph on the proportional protection of parties’ rights and obligations in loan agreements. His scholarly work has appeared in academic journals and edited volumes in several countries. In 2025, he undertook research in Italy on a scholarship, and in 2026, he taught in Poland as part of the Erasmus+ programme. He has been a licensed attorney specialising in civil and administrative law since 2018 and is a member of the Georgian Bar Association and the Georgian Copyright Association.

Irakli Shamatava is a writer and the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the socio-literary journal Sokhumi. His short stories have been translated into Abkhaz, English, Armenian, Kazakh, and Azerbaijani. He is a recipient of the Giorgi Sharvashidze State Prize (2020) and was nominated for the Bertha von Suttner International Peace Prize. In October 2023, he spent a month at Residencia Literaria 1863 in Spain as part of an exchange programme with the Writers’ House of Georgia, where he worked on an autobiographical book.

Location: Tbilisi, Georgia
Personal e-mail: ishamatava@cu.edu.ge
Journal e-mail: csljournal@cu.edu.ge