Curriculum Vitae, Prof Igor Gräzin

Biographical

Born in 1952, in Tartu, Estonia. Citizen of Estonia, resident of Estonia, USA and Australia.

Current Professional Affiliations

Member of Estonian National Parliament, Committee of Economic Affairs

Member of the Board of EBC (Estonian Broadcasting Corporation)

Attorney at Law (Bachmann and Partners)

Documentary Scenarist (Eesti Kultuurfilm LLC)

Professor and Chair of Private Law, Academy Nord

Senior Fellow of International Association of Strategic Studies (Alexandria, Virginia)

Senior Associate, FDI think tank (Perth, Western Australia)

Academic Biography

1988 – Professor of Law and Jurisprudence, University of Tartu

1987 – awarded the degree of Doctor of Sciences in Law and Legal Theory (Moscow)

1984 – Docent of Philosophy, Economics and Law

1979 – awarded PhD (Candidate of Sciences) in Law and legal Sciences (Moscow)

1975 – graduated from University of Tartu Law School, summa cum laude

1970 – graduated from MHG (Miina Härma Gymnasium), with diploma honoris

Former Professional Associations (selected listing)

2005 – Visiting professor of Roman and European Law, University of Adelaide

2004-2005 – senior public policy scholar, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center

1999-2003 – senior legal advisor to the President of Estonian National Parliament

1999-present – Dean, Vice President of Academy Nord

1999 – Council to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (accession to the EU)

1995-1999 – Member of Estonian National Parliament

1994-2001 – adjunct fellow, Herman Kahn Center, Hudson Institute

1992-1997 – special advisor (NATO and security issues) to the President of Estonia

1990-2000 – professor, senior professional specialist, program director at Law School, Mendoza College of Business, Kellogg Institute and London program at University of Notre Dame, Indiana

1990-1992 – Paul Schierl/Fort Howard Corporation Distinguished Professor of legal Ethics, Notre Dame Law School

1989-1991 – Member of the Supreme Soviet, USSR; Pepole’äs deputy of the USSR

Including memberships in “Gorbachev Commission” (on drafting the new Constitution); “Yakovlev Special Commission” (House select commission on Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact), Commission on Constitutional Oversight (“Kerimov Jury”) and others.

1988-1989 – Director of the Law Department of the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law, Academy of Sciences of Estonia

1975-1988 – lecturer, senior lecturer, docent, senior research fellow, professor, Associate Dean, Head of the Chair, editor-in-chief etc – at University of Tartu Law School and in the Department of Philosophy

Subjects Taught (selected listing):

International Business Law and Transactions

International Law

Roman Law and European Legal System

EU

EU Business Law

Philosophy of Law

Jurisprudence

Theory of Law

Law and Literature

Economics of Law and Legal Actions

Economics of Market Transitions

Economics of Property Law

Comparative Constitutional Law

Introduction to the Post-Communist Markets

New Markets’ Entries

Policies of Macroeconomics