Sophie Chachava | New Vision University

Sophie Chachava

Dean of School of Law
Professor in Private Law

Ms. Sophie Chachava was awarded a Ph.D. degree (2010) and Master's Degree in European Law (2002) from Tbilisi State University. She is co-director of the NVU Center for Leadership and Effective Communications and since 2011 also an academic director of the National Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution – NCADR at the TSU. Ms. Chachava also served as the expert-lawyer for the European Union project of “Civil and Administrative Reforms in Georgia” (2007), as the legal reform project lawyer for the German Technical Cooperation Society (2002-2005) and as Robert Bosch Foundation lecturer (Stuttgart, Germany, 2002-2004).

Publications

Global Clinical Legal Education, 2025
Commentary on Labor Code, Commentator, Co- Editor and Co-Author 2023
Consumer Definition, My Attorney – GBA annual journal, 2021, N5
Support to Public Administration Reform in Georgia”, Key Expert, Baseline assessment of labour dispute management and resolution practices in public institutions of Georgia UNDP/CSB 2018
Exclusion of Conflicts of Interests by the Attorney while Preserving Confidentiality and Prioritizing Client Interests, (PROLoG/Ethics Chair/New Vision University) 2018
Commentary on Constitutional Court’s Decision – “Presumption of Correctness of public register entries different standards for movable and immovable property justified?” (IDFI) 2017
CCG – Commentary, Commentator of: Contract of Sales (Paragraph’s 477 – 520), Benevolent intervention in others affairs (Paragraph’s 969-975), Exercise of Rights (Paragraph’s 115-120), 2014 (GIZ/JILEP)
“Necessity – Ground for Exclusion from Responsibility or Specific Ground of Claim?”, Besarion Zoidse Anniversary Edition, TSU, 2014
“Case Study method in Civil Law”, Co-Author, (GIZ, IRZ, GYLA)
“Termination of Labor Agreement (Termination of Labor Agreement by Intention and without party’s intention) – New Classification Embodied in Changes of 12 June, 2013”
Labor Law Journal, Editor and Co-Author, (GIZ), 2014 Legal Aspects of Recent Changes to the Labor Law
Labor Law Journal III, Editor and Co-Author of Case Analysis 2014
Labor Law Journal I, TSU, Co-Author, “Regulation of Termination of Labor Law Contract in Georgian Law and Recommendations for Development of Case Law” 2011
Management and efficient resolution of labor disputes in civil service, situational analysis and needs assessment, Sophie Tkemaladze, Sophio Chachava, 2018
Competition of Claims in Civil Law, 2011 (212 pgs., PHD Work)
Re-vindication (Restoration) of a Property from Illegal Possession, Case Law Review, Georgian Law Review, 7/2004-4, 761
Motor Vehicle Sales Contract, Georgian Law Review, 7/2004-1, 115
Comparative Analysis of Remedies, Georgian Law Review, Special Edition, 2004, 35
Court Decisions Entered in to Force and their Revision, Georgian Law Review, 5/2002-4, 441
Author of the Georgian Labor Law Gap Analyses and Recommendations, GYLA/EU 2011
Editor and Co-Author of Teaching Videos in Mediation (NCADR, JILEP, STCL) 2014
Co-Editor of Teaching Manual in Mediation (NCADR, JILEP, STCL) 2014