Rahim Hakimov

By the Presidential Decree No. PP-5156 of June 21, 2021, he was appointed as a Deputy Minister of Higher and Specialized Secondary Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan for Science and Innovation.

In July 2021, he became an honorary professor at Tashkent State Law University.

opening of the center for German law and comparative legal research aimed at training qualified legal personnel with knowledge of German language, in cooperation with the University of Regensburg (Federal Republic of Germany) in 2020;

In 2020, he was awarded the academic title of Professor in the specialty of "Constitutional law. Administrative law. Financial and customs law".

By the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated September 2019, he was appointed as the Deputy Minister of justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan – rector of Tashkent State University of Law and thus, he prematurely resigned from the Legislative Chamber.

He is also included in the members of the commission for the implementation of the concept of normative activity approved by the decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated August 8, 2018.

In 2018, he successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on: "Improvement of legal mechanisms to ensure balance between the branches of state power" and received the degree of DSc of law.

Being a Deputy, from December 2017, he also headed the Institute of legislative problems and parliamentary research under Oliy Majlis.

He is a member of the commission for the implementation of priority areas for improving the system of state and public construction, established in accordance with the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated February 7, 2017 "On The strategy of actions for further development of the Republic of Uzbekistan". As a member of this commission, he was directly involved in the development of a number of laws, including the constitutional law "On the constitutional court of the Republic of Uzbekistan", the laws "On parliamentary control” and "On public control".

Actively participated in the creation of the parliamentary research Institute. He became the first Director of the Institute of Legislative Problems and Parliamentary Research under Oliy Majlis. While serving as Director of this Institute (December 2017 – September 2019), he supervised the preparation of 64 draft laws and more than 185 analytical materials aimed at solving problems of law enforcement practice.

In November 2014, he was nominated as a candidate for Parliament from the liberal democratic party of Uzbekistan, according to the results of the election, he was elected as a deputy to the legislative chamber of Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan. He was a member of the Committee on Security and Defense, and then he headed it

In 2014, he was awarded the academic title of associate Professor in the specialty of  "Constitutional law. Administrative law. Financial and customs law".

In 2009, he successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Parliament in the system of state power: problems of theory and practice" and received a PhD in law.

From 2008 to 2010, he combined being an Associate Professor of legal Sciences at Tax Academy under the State Tax Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan. In 2012-2015 – an Associate Professor of "Fundamentals of state-building and governance" Department at Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan (APA).

From 2005 to 2015, he worked in various positions at the Institute for Monitoring Current Legislation under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, having made his way from a specialist to the head of the department for monitoring legislation in the field of state and public construction.

In 1997, R. Hakimov graduated from Lomonosov school No. 3, and in 1999 he graduated from the boarding school for talented children of Chust District. In 2003, he graduated the law faculty of Namangan State University with honors (bachelor's degree), in 2005 — Tashkent State Institute of Law (master's degree). In the same year, he was awarded with the state scholarship of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the field of "Law and international relations".

Rahim Rasuljonovich Hakimov (uzb. Xakimov Rahim Rasuljonovich) was born on January 2, 1983, in Chust, Namangan region) — Uzbek legal scholar, politician, Deputy of the Legislative chamber of Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan (2015-2019). By the decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated September 19, 2019, he was appointed as a Deputy Minister of justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan – rector of Tashkent State University of Law. According to Presidential Decree No. PP-5156 of June 21, 2021, he was appointed as a Deputy Minister of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Science and Innovation and he is a first class Justice Advisor.

Rahim Hakimov was born in 1983 in the city of Chust in the Namangan region of Uzbekistan. His father, Rasuljon Hakimov, is retired and has a higher education in the specialty of zoo technician. Before retiring, he has worked for many years in the field of agriculture. Underwent the way from an ordinary veterinarian to the Chairman of the farm cooperative "Galaba" (Victory) in Karakurgan village of Chust district. Mother, Hakimova Rokhatkhon, worked many years as a teacher in a preschool, and now, she is a pensioner.

While he was a rector, Tashkent State University of Law for the first time entered the top 500 universities in the world according to the British magazine The Times Higher Education, taking 401st place (the best place among the universities of Uzbekistan and Central Asia) among thousands of universities from 94 regions and countries