Member Profile

Education: Taron Simonyan graduated from Yerevan State University (Department of Law) with Honorary Distinction in 2007, has a Master’s degree on European Law from YSU (2009). In 2009 he graduated from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (International Legal Studies), Tufts University (Boston, USA), and in 2012 he did his PhD on Theory and History of State and Law at YSU.

Professional trainings, memberships and publications: Taron was elected as a member of the Parliament at the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia from Lori region - 2019-2021, was a member at the Commission of the Legal and State Affairs, the Co-Chairman at the Committee on Economic Integration, Legal Approximation and Convergence with EU Policies (ECON) at the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly. He was appointed as the National Correspondent of the Republic of Armenia in the UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW (UNCITRAL) ֊ 2017֊2021, was elected as a member of the Council of the Chamber of Advocates of the Republic of Armenia 2017-2021, is a co-founder, a member of the Council of the Asociation of Arbitrators of the Republic of Armenia since 2017, a co-founder, a member of the Council of the Mediators of Armenia Self-governing organization since 2016, is an Arbitrator at the European Arbitration Chamber since 2014 (Brussels, Belgium); the Executive Director of the Bar Association of the Republic of Armenia (since 2012); the Director and founding member of International and Comparative Law Center (since 2010); member of Chamber of Advocates of RA (since 2010); the Big Council of the Department of Law (since 2005); and the Council of YSU (2007-2011) and is an author of several scientific articles on international, comparative law and theory of state and law, as well as monographs.

He is a lecturer and associate professor (Docent) at the Faculty of Law; Center on European Studies (Yerevan State University); a lecturer at the French University in Armenia and at the International Accountancy Training Center.

Taron has participated in several professional trainings in Russia, Greece, Belgium, USA and France.

Practice Areas: Taron has provided all-inclusive legal services to IT, media, mining corporations, local casinos etc. He has acted as a program expert for IBF International Consulting, Council of Europe project “Support for Access to Justice in Armenia”, assisting the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia in drafting of the new Code for Civil Procedure. Taron has also acted as an expert for OSCE, Protection of Human Rights without Borders, Armenian UN NGO, the Asian Development Bank, EuropeAid etc.

Negotiation and Mitigation, International Law, EU Law, Human Rights, Investment Law, Arbitration, Litigation, Constitutional Law, Civil Law and Procedure, Administrative Law and Procedure, Competition Law, Corporate Law, Labor Law, Mining Legislation, Intellectual Property Law, Legal Due Diligence.

Languages: Armenian, English, Russian

Negotiation and Mitigation, International Law, EU Law, Human Rights, Investment Law, Arbitration, Litigation, Constitutional Law, Civil Law and Procedure, Administrative Law and Procedure, Competition Law, Corporate Law, Labor Law, Mining Legislation, Intellectual Property Law, Legal Due Diligence.

Ø  AlSoor Investments LLC (UAE)

Ø  Sari Investments LLC (UAE - Armenia)

Ø  BrainFights Inc. (USA)

Ø  CodeSignal Inc. (USA)

Ø  Public Administration International (UK)

Ø  BIOFARM, Societ’e’ par actions simplife’e (France)

Ø  SWATCH, The Swatch Group AG (Switzerland)

Ø  HABANOS S.A, Corporacion Habanos Sociedad Anonima (Cuba)

Ø  ZARA Industria De Diseno Textile S.A. (Spain)

Ø  LEXGARANT Insurance Company (Russian Federation)

Ø  Extron Development Ltd (British Virgin Islands)

Ø  World Vision International IBO (Armenian branch)

Ø  French University in Armenia Foundation (Armenia)

Ø  Yerevan State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsi (Armenia)

Ø  Yerevan Chocolate Company CJSC (Armenia)

Ø  EU Delegation to Armenia (European Commission)

Ø  Central Bank of Armenia (Armenia)

Ø  Ginosi Apartels and Hotels (Armenia)

Ø  Enterprise Incubator Foundation (Armenia)

Ø  South Caucasus Railway, CJSC (Armenia)

Ø  Mira Trans LLC (Armenia)

Ø  Mikro Kapital LLC (Armenia)

Taron was elected as a member of the Parliament at the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia from Lori region - 2019-2021, was a member at the Commission of the Legal and State Affairs, the Co-Chairman at the Committee on Economic Integration, Legal Approximation and Convergence with EU Policies (ECON) at the EuroNest Parliamentary Assembly. He was appointed as the National Correspondent of the Republic of Armenia in the UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW (UNCITRAL) ֊ 2017֊2021. He was the General director of ELL Partnership Law Firm in 2011-2019, Director of a think-tank center - Armenian Center of International and Comparative Law. 

Taron has provided all-inclusive legal services to IT, media, mining corporations, local casinos etc. He has acted as a program expert for IBF International Consulting, Council of Europe project “Support for Access to Justice in Armenia”, assisting the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia in drafting of the new Code for Civil Procedure. Taron has also acted as an expert for OSCE, Protection of Human Rights without Borders, Armenian UN NGO, the Asian Development Bank, EuropeAid etc.

He is a lecturer and associate professor (Docent) at the Faculty of Law; Center on European Studies (Yerevan State University); a lecturer at the French University in Armenia and at the International Accountancy Training Center.

Taron Simonyan graduated from Yerevan State University (Department of Law) with Honorary Distinction in 2007, has a Master’s degree on European Law from YSU (2009). In 2009 he graduated from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (International Legal Studies), Tufts University (Boston, USA), and in 2012 he did his PhD on Theory and History of State and Law at YSU.

Taron is an author of several scientific articles on international, comparative law and theory of state and law, as well as monographs.

Ø “Legal Symbolism and Constitutional Policy in Contemporary Reality օf Changes”, Studia Politologiczne (Political Science Studies), published by the Institute of Political Science of Warsaw University, Warsaw,  2021, Vol, 61, (Co-Author with Manasyan A.), pp. 152-185

Ø “Social Science” school manual for 11^th class, Konrad Adenauer Foundation – Armenia, Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Diaspora, Center of European Studies, YSU, Yerevan, 2020, Co-author, Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4

Ø “The Evolution of the Principle of Self-Determination and the ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Declaration of Independence of Kosovo”, 2019, Article, State and Law, N 1 (83), Yerevan, 2019, pages: 35-43

Ø “Controlled Reality and the Fiction of Freedom: Synergy Algorithms”, 2018, Article, Materials of the Conference Devoted to the 85th Anniversary of the Faculty of Law at Yerevan State University, Yerevan, YSU Press, 2018, p. 25-35

Ø Civilitarian social order in the context of the civilizational maturity of the Armenian Nation, Article, “Banver of Yerevan State University, Law, Yerevan, 2018 № 3 (27), pages: 55-59

Ø  “Practical Challenges of a Lawyer in XXI century: Artificial Intelligence”, Articles of the annual conference of the Faculty of Law YSU, 2018, Yerevan, pp. 35-45

Ø “ARBANE: lao’s awakening”, Book, Monography, Yerevan, 2018.

Ø “Social Science” school manual for 11^th class, Konrad Adenauer Foundation – Armenia, Center for European Studies – YSU, 2017, Chapter 1 and 2.

Ø “Changing nature of Freedom in the complexity of the XXI century Law”, Articles of the annual conference of the Faculty of Law YSU, 2017, Yerevan, pp. 29-41

Ø “Legal Dynamics in Social Systems out of Equilibrium: the Problem of Random Interventions”, Articles of the annual conference of the Faculty of Law YSU, Yerevan, 2016, pp. 33-43.

Ø “Issues of Military Law”, 2015, Yerevan, OSCE, Co-author

Ø "Accessible Law: questions and answers", 2015, Yerevan, ELL Partnership Law Firm, Ministry of Justice of the RA, School of Advocates of the RA, Co-editor, Co-author. 

Ø “Law for All” (Street Law) a manual for learners, 2015, Yerevan, GIZ, Co-author.

Ø “The complexity of law determination and some discernible patterns within it in transitional and unstable societies”, Articles of the annual conference of the Faculty of Law (YSU), 2015, pp. 56-68.

Ø “Legislative issues of a child’ right to be heard before the Court in the Republic of Armenia”, - “State and Law”, 2014, The Bar Association of RA, N 1(63), pp. 44-53.

Ø “Nash Equilibrium as a mean for the determination of rules of law (for sovereign actors)”, 2013, Journal of Scientific Articles dedicated to the 80^th anniversary of the Faculty of Law (YSU).

Ø “State-Legal Complexity and Synergetics: Part 1, Complexity of Transitional and Unstable Social-State Systems: Synergetic Vision”, Monograph, 2013, Yerevan, YSU Press

Ø “Historical backgrounds for the Development of the Concept on Synergy of Law”, 2013, Journal of Scientific Articles dedicated to the 100^th anniversary of Professor Sh. Petrosyan.

Ø “Complexity and Management of the Development of Unstable and Transitional Statehoods: Choice in Bifurcations.”  -   “State and Law”, 2012, The Bar Association of RA, N 4(58), pp. 4-17.

Ø “The Legitimation of State Authority in Unstable Statehoods acting in Transitions” -  “Bulletin of Yerevan University”, “Social Sciences”, “Jurisprudence”, YSU, 2012, N. 137.3, 24-39.

Ø “The Complexity of Contemporary Law: Synergetic Approach”, - Journal of Scientific Articles dedicated to the 20^th Independence of the Republic of Armenia, 2012, pp. 181-199. 

Ø “The applicability of the social synergetic’s main concepts and principles in the research of unstable social systems” -   “State and Law”, 2011, The Bar Association of RA, N 3 (53), pp. 66-83.

Ø “The role of time perceivement and social initial and current memory in unstable and transitional societies” - “State and Law”, 2011, The Bar Association of RA, N 1 (51), pp. 56-67.

Ø “Synergetics as an interdisciplinary path of postclassical science” – “State and Law”, 2010, The Bar Association of RA, N 1 (47), pp. 81-91.

Ø “The features of the impact of Civil and Common Law traditions vis-à-vis the sources of International Law” (English version) – “Bulletin of Yerevan University”, “Social Sciences”, “Jurisprudence”, YSU, 2010, N. 131.3, pp.64-79.

Ø “The problem of the end of history and its interpretation through the liberal law-understanding” - “State and Law”, The Bar Association of RA, 2008, N. 1-2 (43-44), p. 80-90.

Ø “The elements of customary international law” – “State and Law”, The Bar Association of RA, 2008, N. 3 (41), p. 58-69.

2017-2019                        Founding-member of Arbitrators’ Association of the Republic of Armenia NGO, Member of the Council 

2017-2019                        Member of the Council of the Chamber of Advocates of the RA

2016-2019                        Member of the Commission on Military Issues of Human Rights Defender of Armenia

2016-2019                        Founding-member of Mediators of Armenia NGO,                                               Member of the Council 

2014-2019                      Arbitrator and Member at the European Arbitration Chamber (Brussels, Belgium)

2012-2019                       Executive Director of the Bar Association of the RA.

Since 2010         Co-Founder (Director – from 2013-2017) of the International and Comparative Law Center (ICLaw- Armenia) www.iclaw.am

2010-2012                       Member of the USAAA www.usaaa.am

Since September, 2010  Member of the Chamber of Advocates of the RA www.advocates.am

2010 - 2013                     Young expert of the “Luys” Foundation of the RA

Since December, 2008    Member of the Bar Association of the RA.