2022 Fellow Spotlight Series — This talk was recorded for the Draper Hills Summer Fellows Program at Stanford University in 2022.
Tatevik Matinyan is an Armenian human rights lawyer and licensed advocate. She is currently the president of the Institute of Liberal Politics, a nonprofit organization and liberal think tank providing independent expertise to institutions and State agencies as well as organizing non-formal education for different groups of society, aiming to promote liberal and democratic values and the principles of the rule of law, pluralistic democracy through non-formal education. She has 12 years of professional experience in conducting strategic litigations on both local and international levels, in particular up to the European Court of Human Rights, where she won several cases. As a board member of the Center for Strategic Litigations, Tatevik mainly works on documenting war crimes, representing prisoners of war, and providing legal assistance to victims of armed conflicts.
