Conference dedicated to 85th anniversary of YSU Professor Norik Ayvazyan

Harutyun Khachikyan, Dean of the YSU Faculty of Law, noted that throughout his career, Professor Ayvazyan has been a mentor to tens of thousands of legal professionals, including the dean himself. He emphasized that the professor's academic journey took place during a challenging era when defending a doctoral dissertation in Moscow was an exceptional achievement; Professor Ayvazyan was among the first to be awarded the degree of doctor of law.

"Professor Ayvazyan's contribution to the field of jurisprudence and the education of legal professionals is invaluable. Alongside his strictness and high standards, he remained exceptionally kind and benevolent toward his students," Khachikyan highlighted.

Hasmik Yengoyan, Associate Professor at the Chair of Constitutional Law, congratulating the professor, stating: "Today we gather to summarize an entire era. Eighty-five is not merely an age of wisdom; it represents a lifetime of service to national science, university education, and numerous students. Most importantly, it reflects a commitment to viewing law as the supreme value for regulating state and social life. Your path is that of an individual for whom constitutional law was never just an academic subject. In your lectures, it resonated as a philosophy of freedom. By heading the Chair of Constitutional Law for many years, you fostered a collective mindset and a scientific school characterized by freedom of thought, respect for reasoned argument, and intolerance toward superficiality. It is for this reason that those who developed under your guidance became not only expert specialists but well-versed individuals."

The conference featured a series of scholarly reports by legal experts: Gevorg Danielyan, Doctor of Law, Professor ("Internal and External Aspects of the Legitimacy of State Power"); Ruzanna Hakobyan, Doctor of Law, Professor ("Forms of Constitutional Responsibility in a Rule-of-Law State"); Artur Vagharshyan, Doctor of Law, Professor ("The Need to Reconsider the Constitutional Concept of the State"); Anahit Manasyan, PhD in Law, Associate Professor ("The Exceptional Role of Human Rights Education in Ensuring the Rule of Law: Challenges and Solutions"); Karen Hakobyan, PhD in Law, Assistant ("Trends in the Development of the Right to Good Administration"); Kristine Aleksanyan, PhD in Law, Assistant ("Issues of Protecting Legitimate Expectations in the Case of the Revocation of Favorable Administrative Acts"); and Tigran Naghdalyan, PhD in Law, Assistant ("The Issue of Assessing the Constitutionality of Legislative Gaps").

The anniversary event was attended by members of the scientific community, representatives of state bodies, the judiciary, and various YSU faculties, as well as postgraduate and undergraduate students.