Prof. Anna Dolidze
Former Deputy Minister of Defence, Former Chief Lawyer to the President, former Member of Parliament
Over 20 years, she has worked on the frontlines of rule of law, judiciary reform, international law and security-from post-war zones to protest movements and election campaigns.
Dr. Dolidze has served as Deputy Minister of Defence of the Republic of Georgia and Chief Lawyer to the President of Georgia. In 2018, she was appointed to the High Council of Judiciary, serving until 2020. In October 2024, she was elected to Parliament but recused her mandate in protest of Georgia’s authoritarian turn-choosing resistance over power when her
country’s democracy was at stake.
She has been recognized as one of twelve Women on the Barricades by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, named a Young European Leader by Atlantik-Brücke Germany, and honored as Global Woman Leader 2023 by the Middle East Institute for Excellence. She testified before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the US Congress in 2012 and serves on the Advisory Council of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy and the Expert Council on Leadership Excellence in Politics at Apolitical Foundation.
Dr. Dolidze is the author of three books and numerous scholarly articles. Her book Speaking the Language of International Law: Russia as a Non-Native Speaker is forthcoming with Edward Elgar (2026). New York Times featured a profile about Anna Dolidze. She has been quoted by CNN, BBC, Sunday Times, The National Interest, and Nikkei, among others.
Qualification
JSD in Law, Cornell University, LLM in International Law, Leiden University, LLB Tbilisi State University
Research Interests
International law, international security, geopolitics, Law and technology
Publications
Anna Dolidze, Speaking the Language of International Law: The Case of Russia as a Non-Native Speaker (under contract with Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2027)
Anna Dolidze, Who Is the System? Informal Governance in the Judiciary, Tbilisi, 2024
Anna Dolidze, First Steps: Georgian Judiciary during the First Democratic Republic (1918–1921), 2019
Anna Dolidze, Academic Writing in Law, 2017
Articles
Anna Dolidze, Russia's Approach to International Law: The Three Discourses of the Non-Native Speaker, in The Cambridge Handbook of Global Crisis and Global Legal Order (Takao Suami, Keisuke Kondo & Kaoru Obata eds., forthcoming 2026)
Anna Dolidze & Valerie Hans, Legal Pluralism and the Reception of Jury Trials in the Republic of Georgia, Boston Review of International Law, Vol 1. 2026
Anna Dolidze & Tamar Oniani, Is Transparency Enough? Informal Governance Networks and the Selection Process of a Georgian Judge to the European Court of Human Rights, Review of Central and East European Law, Vol. 49, 2024
Anna Dolidze, International Dispute Resolution as Polyphony: Amicus Curiae Participation in International Tribunals, Georgetown Journal of International Law 54, 2023
V. Akchurina & Anna Dolidze, The Impact of Sanctions against Russia on Central Eurasia: A New Great Game through a Feminist Lens, Journal of International Women's Studies, 2023
Anna Dolidze, Repatriation of Muslim Georgians: Mission Accomplished? Religions, 2023
Anna Dolidze, Bridging International and Comparative Law: Amicus Curiae Participation as a Vertical Legal Transplant, 26(4) European Journal of International Law, 2016
Anna Dolidze, Promise and Perils of the International Human Right to Property, 47 University of the Pacific Law Review, 2016
Anna Dolidze, The Non-Native Speakers of International Law: The Case of Russia, 15 Baltic Yearbook of International Law, 2015
Sara Seck & Anna Dolidze, ITLOS Case No. 17 and the Evolving Principles for Corporate Responsibility under International Law, in Responsibilities of Non-State Actors in Armed Conflict and the Marketplace (Cedric Ryngaert, Math Noortmann & Noemi Gal-Or eds., 2015)
Anna Dolidze, Beyond the Binary of Exogenous and Endogenous Transitions: The International Governance of Transitional Justice in Georgia, in Transitional Justice in a Reunified Korea: Peace-Building and Reconciliation (Ruti Teitel & Buhm-Suk Baek eds., 2015)
Anna Dolidze, Jury Trials in Georgia and Their Compatibility with the European Convention on Human Rights, in European Standards of Human Rights and Their Influence on Georgian Legislation and Practice (Konstantin Korkelia ed., 2014)
Anna Dolidze, Advisory Opinion on Responsibility and Liability for International Seabed Mining (ITLOS Case No. 17) and the Future of NGO Participation in the International Legal Process, 19 ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law, 2013
Anna Dolidze, Making International Property Law: Amici Curiae in International Dispute Resolution, 40 Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce, 2013
Anna Dolidze, Lampedusa and Beyond: Recognition, Implementation, and Justiciability of Stateless Persons' Rights under International Law, 6 Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Rights Law, 2011–2012
Anna Dolidze, The European Court of Human Rights and Non-Governmental Organizations, in Globalization and Governance 207, 207–231 (Laurence Boulle ed., 2011)
Anna Dolidze, Recognizing Differences in Dynamics of Recognition – Can Kosovo Serve as a Precedent for South Ossetia and Abkhazia? 2 Cornell International Affairs Review 42, 42–46 (2009)
Anna Dolidze, Internet Governance in Georgia, in Governing the Internet: Freedom and Regulation in the OSCE Region 133, 133–147 (Christian Moller & Arnaud Amouroux eds., 2007)
Zurab Burduli & Anna Dolidze, Housing and Property Restitution in Georgia, in Returning Home: Housing and Property Restitution Rights of Refugees and Displaced Persons 317, 317–335 (Scott Leckie ed., 2003)