ZAZA NAMORADZE

Zaza Namoradze, Director of the Budapest office of the Justice Initiative, oversees programs on legal aid reforma, access to justice and legal capacity development. Established in 2002, the Open Society Justice Initiative, an operational program of the Open Society Institute (OSI), pursues law reform activities grounded in the protection of human rights, and contributes to the development of legal capacity for open societies worldwide. Zaza previously served as staff attorney and, later, Deputy Director of OSI's Constitutional and Legal Policy Institute (COLPI), where he designed and oversaw projects in legal clinics, constitutional and judicial reforms, and human rights litigation capacity building throughout the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Zaza has worked for the legal department of the Central Electoral Commission in Georgia and was a member of the State Constitutional Commission. Zaza graduated from Law Faculty of Tbilisi State University, studied in the comparative constitutionalism program of the Central European University in Budapest and earned an LL.M from the University of Chicago Law School.