Bakhtiyar Raisovich Tuzmukhamedov (; born March 30, 1955) is a Russian international lawyer, who served as a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda from 18 August 2009 until 21 December 2015.
Biography Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov is the son of , who was a leading Soviet international lawyer, specializing in national liberation and decolonization issues throughout the 1950s–1960s. Tuzmukhamedov attended the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, graduating in 1977. In 1983, he was conferred with a degree of the Candidate of Juridical Science. His candidate dissertation covered UN work with regard to the Indian Ocean peace zone proposal. In 1994, he received an LL.M. from Harvard Law School.
Professional life He was a longtime professor of international Law at the Diplomatic Academy in Moscow. Prior to that, from 1977 to 1984, he was a Research Fellow, at the Law of Sea Division, Institute of Merchant Marine.
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