Taron Simonyan

Taron Simonyan
Տարոն Սիմոնյան
Member of the National Assembly of Armenia
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 January 2019
Parliamentary group	Bright Armenia
Constituency	Lori
Personal details
Born	(1987-01-22) 22 January 1987 Kirovakan, Armenia SSR, Soviet Union

Taron V. Simonyan (Armenian: Տարոն Սիմոնյան; born 22 January 1987), is an Armenian politician, Member of the National Assembly of Armenia of Bright Armenia's faction.

Education and career

Simonyan studied at the Department of Law of Yerevan State University, graduating from it in 2007 with Bachelor's in Jurisprudence with Honorary Distinction. While studying at YSU, Simonyan served as President of its Student Council Department of Law and was also a member of its Scientific Council of the Department of Law as well as President of Committee by Law Matters of the Student Council of the Yerevan State University. He continued his studies at YSU, and while studying for his Master's, he served as a member of Council and Big Council of the Department of Law at the same alma mater. He was then promoted to the President of the Student Council, and after obtaining Master's degree in European Law in 2009, enrolled into Tavitian Scholarship Program at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University in Boston/Medford, Massachusetts. In 2010, he returned to Yerevan State University where he was awarded a Ph.D. in Theory of Law and State in 2012. Immediately after graduation, Simonyan started his career at the Department of Law of YSU, serving at first as a member of its council and chairman of the Theory and History of State and Law division.

Publications

• "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
• "Social Science" school manual for 11th class, Konrad Adenauer Foundation – Armenia, Center for European Studies – YSU, 2017, Chapter 1 and 2.
• "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
• "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.
• "Issues of Military Law", 2015, Yerevan, OSCE, Co-author
• "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.
• "Law for All" (Street Law) a manual for learners, 2015, Yerevan, GIZ, Co-author.
• "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.
• "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.
• "Nash Equilibrium as a mean for the determination of rules of law (for sovereign actors)", 2013, Journal of Scientific Articles, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Faculty of Law (YSU).
• "State-Legal Complexity and Synergetics: Part 1, Complexity of Transitional and Unstable Social-State Systems: Synergetic Vision", Monograph, 2013, Yerevan, YSU Press
• "Historical Backgrounds for the Development of the Concept on Synergy of Law", 2013, Journal of Scientific Articles, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Professor Sh. Petrosyan.
• "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.
• "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.
• "The Complexity of Contemporary Law: Synergetic Approach", - Journal of Scientific Articles, dedicated to the 20th Independence of the Republic of Armenia, 2012, pp. 181–199.
• "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.
• "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.
• "Synergetics as an Interdisciplinary Path of Postclassical Science" – State and Law, 2010, The Bar Association of RA, N 1 (47), pp. 81–91.
• "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.
• "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.
• "The Elements of Customary International Law" – State and Law, The Bar Association of RA, 2008, N. 3 (41), p. 58-69.