Malkhaz Nakashidze is a Jean Monnet Chair (EUCONST) and Jean Monnet Module (TRIO.JOIN.EU) coordinator at the Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University (BSU), in Georgia. His areas of teaching and research are in the Comparative Constitutional law, Comparative Politics, European Constitutional Law and Government. He teaches classes in Public Law at the undergraduate and graduate level since 2000.
He holds a Master of Laws degree from Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University and a Doctor of Laws degree from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. In 2010 he defended his dissertation on the topic “Features of the President’s Relations with the Branches of the state powers in Semi-Presidential Systems of Government – (on the Example of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan)” and was awarded the academic degree of Doctor of Law. In 2012, as the Open Society Foundation (OSF, Budapest) post doctoral fellow (CARTI), visited Dublin City University, School of Law and Government and in 2013 completed a post-doctoral research on the parliamentarism in the South Caucasus countries under the supervision of Professor Robert Elge, a member of the Royal Irish Academy of Sciences. His post-doctoral research “Semi-Presidentialism in Georgia” as a book chapter was published by Palgrave Macmillan in Semi-Presidentialism in the Caucasus and Central Asia Editors: Elgie, Robert, Moestrup, Sophia (Eds.).
Currently, Malkhaz Nakashidze is a Professor of Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University. His areas of teaching and research interests are comparative constitutional law, constitutional justice, and EU constitutional law. Malkhaz Nakashidze began his academic career at Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University in 1999 as a visiting lecturer in law (1999-2006), and then went through all academic levels, holding the academic positions of Assistant Professor (2006-2011) and Associate Professor (2011-2021). Since 2020, as a result of winning the European Commission competition, he has become the founder, the first Jean Monnet Chair at BSU and the Jean Monnet Professor in EU Constitutional Law. In 2023, Malkhaz Nakashidze won the European Commission competition for the second time and was again awarded the status of Jean Monnet Professor for the implementation of the Jean Monnet Module (TRIO.JOIN.EU) on the Political Criteria of the Accession to the European Union and Europeanization of Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine. In addition to his academic position, Malkhaz Nakashidze has held administrative and elective positions at Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University. In particular, in 2007, he was elected by the Academic and Representative Councils of the University as the Head of Administration (Chancellor) of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University. In 2014-2018, Malkhaz Nakashidze was elected as a member of the Academic Council of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University by the Law Faculty Council.
Malkhaz Nakashidze has extensive experience in international research activities. In 2023, he won the European Union competition and received a Jean Monnet fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. As part of the fellowship, he conducted research on the European integration of Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies as a visiting fellow in the 2023-2024 academic year. In 2016, Malkhaz Nakashidze won the competition announced by the US government (Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program) and was the first representative from BSU and Georgian regional universities to receive one of the most prestigious Fulbright research scholarships. As part of the scholarship, he was a Fulbright scholar at Boston College School of Law in the 2016-2017 academic year, where he conducted research on the constitutional amendments. In October 2018, Malkhaz Nakashidze was a visiting scholar at the Department of Political Science at Sapienza University of Rome. In the same year, Malkhaz Nakashidze won the Latvian State Research Scholarship 2018/2019 and was a visiting researcher at the Law School of the University of Latvia in 2019. Malkhaz Nakashidze is a 2018 winner of the Mevlana Exchange Program funded by the Turkish government and lectured at the Law School of Ataturk University in Erzurum, Turkey. Malkhaz Nakashidze is also a winner of Erasmus+ exchange programs and lectured on European integration issues at the University of Siena, italy (2025), Faculty of Law of the Golce Delchev University of Stip in North Macedonia (November 2023) and at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bialystok in Poland (October 2022).
Malkhaz Nakashidze is one of the founders and co-chairs of the International Society of Public Law – ICON•S Georgia. Malkhaz Nakashidze has been collaborating with ICON•S since 2016, during a Fulbright research visit to the USA, and has been implementing various research projects with members of the society, as well as periodically participating in the society’s conferences. In 2021, while collaborating with ICON•S, the idea of creating ICON•S Georgia emerged, and under the leadership of Malkhaz Nakashidze, intensive preparatory work began to establish the organization in Georgia. Finally, on February 28, 2023, the inauguration of ICON•S Georgia was held in Tbilisi and the society was officially launched. The society unites professors, doctoral students and students from various universities in Georgia.
Malkhaz Nakashidze has presented papers at about 100 international conferences and forums in Europe (France, Great Britain, Belgium, Hungary, Poland, Austria, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Portugal, Norway, Spain, Turkey, Italy, Ukraine, Armenia, Ireland), the USA and South Korea. Malkhaz Nakashidze has published a textbook, book, monograph, book chapters and more than 100 scientific articles, blogs, reports in Georgia and abroad, in Georgian, English and Spanish languages, on current issues of constitutional law. His works have been published in high-impact journals, books and are indexed in Web of Science, Scopus and other international academic databases. Malkhaz Nakashidze is a member of the International Association of Constitutional Law, the International Society of Public Law, the Fulbright International Association, and a member of the Standing Committee of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR).
In addition to his academic career, Malkhaz Nakashidze has experience working in the public (2004-2011) and private sectors (2000-2004). He has held various positions in the Georgian civil service. In particular, he was the Head of the Legal Department of the Government of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara (2004-2005), the Head of the Department of Justice of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia (2005-2007), the Deputy Minister of Finance and Economy of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara (2009-2010), the Deputy Head of the Regional Center for Research and Promotion of Constitutionalism (2010-2011). Before entering the civil service, Malkhaz Nakashidze was the founder and managing partner of a private law firm (2003-2004), the founder and chairman of the independent professional association of professors and teachers of the Georgian State University “Dignity” (2004-2005), and the regional coordinator of the “Fair Elections” Foundation (2004) in the Adjara region.
Malkhaz Nakashidze as a legal expert was included in the list of experts for the provision of independent external expertise in various law branches and methodologies in the field of comparative law (2016/S 133-238952) managed by the European Parliament, Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Services.
For more information please visit University website and download CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal Profile at: Linkedin ORCID Google Scholar