Aiman
Omarova

Professional interests

• Theory of civil law
• Business law
• Contract law
• Corporate law
• Housing law
• Intellectual property
• Protection of civil rights

Practical experience

• present — acting professor at the Department of Civil Law, Civil Procedure and Labour Law, Faculty of Law, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
• July 2015 — present — consultant at Dogovor24 LLP
• October 2015 — present — expert of the Independent Agency for Accreditation and Rating (IAAR) (part-time)
• 2013 — 2015 — director of the Kazakhstan Centre for Legal Analysis LLP (part-time)
• 2012 — 2013 — research expert at the Institute of State and Law (part-time)
• September 2001 — September 2013 — associate professor at the Department of Civil and Business Law, Faculty of Law, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
• September 2010 — present — Arbitrator of the Kazakhstan International Arbitration (KIA), a permanent arbitration court (part-time)
• September 2004 — August 2006 — associate professor at the Department of Civil Law Disciplines of the Judicial Academy under the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan (part-time)
• July 2005 — August 2006 — research consultant at KazInYurCollegia LLP (part-time)
• September 2003 — September 2005 — lawyer at KazInYurCollegia LLP (part-time)
• September 1998 — September 2001 — senior lecturer at the Department of Civil and Business Law, Faculty of Law, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
• September 1996 — 2000 — lecturer at the Kazakh Academy of Labour and Social Relations (part-time)
• September 1997 — September 1998 — lecturer at the Department of Civil and Business Law, Faculty of Law, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
• September 1995 — October 1997 — assistant at the Department of Law, Ryskulov Narxoz University (part-time)
• September 1995 — September 1997 — research trainee in speciality 12.00.03 at the Department of Civil and Business Law, Faculty of Law, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University

Education

1990 — 1995 — Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (specialisation: jurisprudence, qualification: lawyer, with honours)

Qualification

21 October 2002 — defence of the thesis "Civil Law Issues of the Institution of Trade Secrets in the Republic of Kazakhstan" for the degree of Candidate of Legal Sciences in speciality 12.00.03 — civil law; business law; family law; private international law; civil procedure; arbitration procedure. Academic supervisor: Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Professor M. K. Suleimenov

Academic degree

Candidate of Legal Sciences

Academic title

• Associate Professor
• Professional mediator (first level) under the programme "Mediation in Social and Labour Relations" (trained at Almaty Management University)
• Expert in accreditation and rating of higher education institutions
• Arbitrator of the KIA (permanent arbitration court)

Seminar and training experience

Regularly delivers seminars and trainings for practising notaries on "Applying Civil Legislation in Notarial Practice", "Transactions in Notarial Practice: Formalisation and Invalidation of Transactions", "Contract Law. Practical Application" and others, organised jointly by Al-Farabi Kazakh National University and the Almaty Regional Chamber of Notaries

Seminars on "Current Issues in Applying the Civil and Civil Procedure Legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan", "Reforms of the Civil Procedure Legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan", "Intellectual Property Legislation: Court Practice and Current Legal Issues" for judges, court specialists and prosecutors, organised by Al-Farabi Kazakh National University jointly with the courts and the prosecutor\'s office of Almaty

Seminars on current issues in applying housing legislation for the staff of Almaty Turgyn Uy LLP under the advanced training programme of the research centre "Legal Support for the Innovative Development of Kazakhstan" of Al-Farabi KazNU

Online advanced training seminars for university lecturers in civil law disciplines under the programme of the Institute of Advanced Training of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, programmes "Civil Law" and "Intellectual Property Law"

Seminars and trainings on "Consumer Protection in Healthcare", organised by the Higher School of Public Health of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Seminars and trainings on "Concluding, Amending and Terminating Contracts: Legislation and Practice", "Specifics of Contract Work in Organisations", "Corporate Law", "Claims and Litigation Work" for company executives, heads and specialists of legal departments and civil practice lawyers

Seminars on "Registering and Protecting Rights to a Trademark and Trade Name", "Contractual Relations in the Use of Intellectual Property", "Legislative Regulation of Copyright Agreements", "Specifics of Concluding Licence Agreements", "Legal Issues of Trade Secret Protection", "Drafting, Concluding and Terminating Copyright Agreements"

Seminars and trainings on civil law for professional accountants

Participation in grants and projects

Researcher on the projects "Criminal Policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Ensuring Information Security and Countering Computer Crime" and "Criminal Law and Criminological Measures to Prevent the Criminal Consequences of Illegal Migration" under the grant funding programme for scientific research of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan — 2014-2017

Expert on the draft Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Legal Regulation of Intellectual Property", 2013

Research expert on grant-funded research projects of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2011

Research expert of the investigation service of the National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan on civil law issues within a criminal case, 2010

Holder of the certificate "Teacher Training: Interactive Methods" under the European Union\'s Bistro programme "Institutional Development of the Judicial Academy under the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan", supported by the OSCE Centre in Almaty and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)

Holder of the certificate under the programme "Promoting the Development of Judicial Systems in Central Asia", USAID/IRIS project, IRIS Center of the University of Maryland (USA)

Recipient of the state research scholarship for talented young scientists (2004-2006)

Publications

• Over 60 academic and practical publications in law, including monographs, textbooks and teaching manuals
• Author of a series of articles on concluding, performing and terminating contracts, loan agreements and debt recovery on the Dogovor 24 LLP website dogovor24.kz/