On March 17, 2011 at Guram Tavartkiladze Teaching University was held a presentation of a lawyer Levan Darbaidze’s monographic work “Legal Opinions of Alexander Amilakhvari”. Modern researchers’ purpose was to give clear insights into legal knowledge accumulated for centuries, its objective assessment and use of this knowledge for solving the problems, existing today. The author, took into consideration such views and responsibilities and offered the reader excellent book. As the author said, the book is the result of scientific analysis of the basic issues in the history of Georgian Law that has a great role in problem solving of Constitutional, Administrative or Criminal Law. The main purpose of the monographic research is scientific substantiation of Alexander Amilakhvari’s legal opinions and how he formed his opinions about the legal basis of state and society arrangement, election related issues of the King, the questions about power distribution, the relations between church and state, the protection of rights of religious confessions, also the issues connected with legislative and criminal justice, importance of creation of fair trial, death penalty, equality before law and the human rights. In his monographic work the author speaks about the following topics: the social-political situation of the 18th century of Georgia, the main institutions of the state law, spread and influence of European educator’s ideas, which left their mark on the formation of Alexander Amilakhvari’s legal opinions, the Royal government and legal frameworks, legal aspects of religious beliefs and law making. The book is published for lawyers, historians, political analysts and the readers interested in the history of legal thinking of Georgia.
