Zumrud Zahir gizi Alizade was born on 6 December 1989 in Baku. In 2010, she graduated from the Faculty of Law of Baku State University with a bachelor’s degree in law, and in 2013, she obtained a master’s degree in the same field.

From 2012 to 2015, she served as a lawyer at the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan. In 2015-2016, she pursued her professional career as a lawyer in Istanbul, Republic of Türkiye. In 2019, she began her academic career as a lecturer at the UNESCO Chair on Human Rights and Information Law at the Faculty of Law of Baku State University. From 2021 until February 2025, she worked as a lecturer at the Justice Academy of the Ministry of Justice.

Since February 2025, she has been working at the public legal entity “Institute of Law and Human Rights”, where she initially held the position of trainer-expert at the Human Rights Training and Expertise Department. She currently serves as Acting Head of the Legal Research Department of the Institute.

At the same time, she is a doctoral student at the Faculty of Law of Baku State University and the author of dozens of scholarly articles in the field of human rights.

She is fluent in Azerbaijani, Russian, English and Turkish.   

Department of Legal Studies has 11 employees.

The Department operates in the following areas:

·      To carry out fundamental and applied scientific researches in particular areas of Law, including human rights and freedoms, and to prepare scientific and practical recommendations;

·      To participate in the development and improvement of legislation;

·      To participate in the assessment of the impact of normative legal regulation;

·      To participate in the process of raising public legal literacy;

·      To contribute to the development of legal education;

·      To analyse and summarize the decisions and reports of international human rights institutions and international non-governmental organizations related with Azerbaijan.