The Department of International Law and Human Rights Protection promotes educational, research, analytical, and spiritual-enlightenment activities.

The department brings together scholars and practitioners with experience in protecting rights and serving the state.

Educational pursuits

The department ensures the provision of bachelor's, master's, and professional development courses for the staff of legal and regulatory bodies at all stages of the educational process.

The following subjects are taught within the framework of the master's program:

• System for the Protection of International Human Rights
• National System for the Protection of Human Rights
• Children's Rights
• International Criminal Law
• Personal Data Protection Law
• Combating Violence against Women

The department has established the first and only master's program in "International Human Rights" in Uzbekistan. This master's program, which is oriented towards practical activities, is part of the joint project of the Tashkent State Law University, the Institute of Judicial Administration, and the National Center for Human Rights in Uzbekistan.

The department aligns the activities of Uzbekistan's legal universities consortium on human rights.

The faculty members use innovative teaching methods such as project-based learning, clinical education, blended learning, the Socratic method, simulation, and other modern teaching technologies to teach International Public Law and Human Rights Law.

The curriculum for protection agency personnel includes courses on gender equality, combating violence against women and children, ensuring economic, social, and civil rights, fair trial rights, protection of victims of crime, and other related topics.

Research Activities

The research interests of the department's staff include ensuring and protecting human rights, international crimes, terrorism, corruption, combating human trafficking, and other relevant fields.

Regular scientific seminars, roundtable discussions, and conferences are held at the department. Its staff actively participates in international, national, academic, and educational projects.

The department prepares specialists and doctoral candidates in the field of international human rights and contributes to the activities of dissertation councils. Its members serve as editors of journals, publish the results of their research activities, and contribute to the activities of specialized professional associations.

DEPARTMENT COMPOSITION

Isoqov Luxmonjon Xolboyevich
		Head of the Department, Counselor of Justice, Doctor of Law, Professor. E-mail: l.x.isoqov@proacademy.uz

He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the French State University of Lyon and in 2018 from the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

He is a national consultant at the International Organization for Migration, ranked 13th in the world in the ARWU ranking for the quality of education, 1st in France according to the U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Ranking, and 30th in the world.

About 100 scientific articles have been published in Uzbek, Russian, French, and English.

He translated Jalaluddin Rumi's manual on human rights and the rule of law, more than 10 lectures by famous French lawyers into Uzbek. He carried out the first translation of the UN Convention "On the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families" into Uzbek.

Yesemuratov Alisher Izbasarovich
		Senior Lecturer of the Department, Junior Counselor of Justice, Doctor of Juridical Sciences (PhD). He defended his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Law on the topic "Issues of improving international and national mechanisms for the protection of migrants' rights."  E-mail: a.i.yesemuratov@proacademy.uz

Monographs, textbooks, and educational literature on human rights, international law, international migration law, and the protection of migrants' rights are widely used in pedagogical practice. More than 20 of his scientific articles have been published in Uzbek, Russian, and English.

Khalilov Shokhrukh Mirzo Boymurod ugli
		Department Teacher, 1st Class Lawyer. He is conducting a dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Law on the topic "Improving the Procedural Status of the Investigator." E-mail: sh.b.xalilov@proacademy.uz

More than 10 scientific articles and 2 textbooks in co-authorship have been published.

Kadirova Barno Turanboy qizi
		Department Lecturer, 2nd degree Lawyer, Doctor of Law. He successfully defended his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Law on the topic "Issues of Improving Prosecutorial Oversight of the Implementation of Legislation on Combating Torture." E-mail: b.t.kadirova@proacademy.uz

He participated in the Riga Graduate School of Law (Riga Graduate School of Law) 10 - "Intensive programme in European Law and Economics."

18 scientific articles have been published in Uzbek, Russian, and English.