Was born in the village of Voskevan, Tavush Marz on 8 August 1962.
EDUCATION
1981 Graduated from Yerevan Industrial-Pedagogical Technical College, Workshop and Sketching Department.
1991 Graduated from the Faculty of Law of Yerevan State University.
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1982-1985
Lectured at the Secondary School of Koti village, Noyemberyan district (currently, Noyemberyan sub-district of Tavush Marz).
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1988-1990
Inspector at the Social Security Department of Nor Nork District Executive Committee of Yerevan.
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2006-2007
Accredited Advocate at the Cassation Court.
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2008-2010
Member of the Qualification Commission of the Chamber of Advocates.
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2009-2010
Member of the Fact-Finding Group established by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Armenia No. NK-183-N of October 23, 2008 tasked to establish and reveal the factual events that took place in Yerevan on March 1 and 2, 2008.
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Since 1991
Member of the Chamber of Advocates (the license was suspended immediately upon assuming the office as a Justice of the Constitutional Court in 2022).
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2015-2022 (prior to assuming the office as a Justice of the Constitutional Court)
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Armenian Institute of International and Security Affairs, Head of "Crime, Justice and Internal Security" Project, Head of "Judicial Reforms" Project, Senior Specialist on Constitutional and State Legal Issues.
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16 December 2022
Assumed the office as a Justice of the Constitutional Court by taking the oath at the Sitting of the National Assembly on December 16, 2022.
OTHER INFORMATION
Representative of interests of more than a dozen political figures and persons in the Republic of Armenia as well as at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), who were subjected to political persecution due to the events of March 1, 2008. Co-author of 4 reports on the events of March 1, 2008, as well as co-author of 2015 Report on "The legality of the police use force against the ‘Electric Yerevan’ civil movement".
Seda Safaryan is married and has a son and daughter.
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