For the contributions to freedom and liberty, the Laissez-faire Fraternity, an economic society of the United States of America, on August 12, 2011 awarded posthumously the founder and the former Rector of Tbilisi State University of Economic Relations and Law, later the founder and the Professor of Guram Tavartkiladze Teaching University Mr. Guram Tavartkiladze with the order and the medal of freedom.
The above mentioned association awards only four people annually with the Medal of Freedom and the order. Awardees can only be the people, public persons with special contribution in economic and political situation of the World. Professor Guram Tavartkiladze was nominated among the laureates of 2011. Among them was Ronald Reagan, an ex president of the USA.
The Society award was brought to Georgia by Zviad Kliment Lazarashvili, the graduate of Tbilisi State University of Economic Relations and Law, currently the vice president of the economic society, Master of Strayer University, and Lincoln University Master and Professor Emeritus .
In 2011 the book ‘American Heroes: Thoreau and Brown’ came out. The book is devoted to Professor Guram Tavartkiladze. The book will be nominated as the principal manual in several HEI.
This manual is kept in the USA Congress Library and is available to any interested person.