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Professor, Doctor of Science (DSc) in Philology

Shuhrat Norqizilovich Kuchimov

Professor, Department of Uzbek Language and Literature, Tashkent State University of Law. Member of the Terminology Commission under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Shuhrat Norqizilovich Kuchimov

Biography

Shuhrat Norqizilovich Kuchimov graduated from the Faculty of Uzbek Philology of Tashkent State Pedagogical Institute named after Nizami in 1990 and began his career as a lecturer at the same institute.

From 1993 to 1996 he was a senior researcher at the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan. In 1995 he defended his candidate (PhD) dissertation, “The Language of the Laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan”.

From 1996 to 2016 he served as head of department, dean and vice-rector at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy. In 2004 he defended his doctoral dissertation, “Scientific and Theoretical Problems of Expressing Legal Norms in the Uzbek Language (a Linguo-Legal Analysis)”.

He is currently Professor at the Department of Uzbek Language and Literature of Tashkent State University of Law and a member of the Terminology Commission under the Cabinet of Ministers. He lectures on Legal Discourse, Jurilinguistics and Foundations of Forensic Linguistic Expertise, and runs training seminars at the Higher Training Courses of the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Lawyers’ Training Centre of the Ministry of Justice.

He is the author of more than 150 publications, including textbooks, monographs and peer-reviewed articles on language and law.

Career path

  1. 1990

    Graduated in Uzbek Philology, Nizami Tashkent State Pedagogical Institute

  2. 1993–1996

    Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs — senior researcher

  3. 1995

    Candidate dissertation: “The Language of the Laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan”

  4. 1996–2016

    UWED — head of department, dean, vice-rector

  5. 2004

    Doctoral (DSc) dissertation defended

  6. 2017

    Founded the Yurislingvistika digital platform

  7. Now

    Professor at TSUL, member of the Terminology Commission

Research areas

Jurilinguistics

Theoretical and practical integration of linguistics into law-making and legal administration.

Forensic linguistics

Linguistic expertise in cases of verbal offences: defamation, insult, extremist speech and threats.

Legislative drafting

Analysing the precision, syntax and clarity of statutes, with a focus on the Constitution and the Codes.

Legal lexicography

Codifying standardised legal terminology in Uzbek and compiling legal dictionaries.

Commissions & memberships

  • Member of the Terminology Commission under the Cabinet of Ministers — reviewing, standardising and officially introducing new words and terms.
  • Member of the International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics (IAFLL).
  • Member of the Doctoral Council (10.00.01 — Uzbek Language) at the Institute of Uzbek Language, Literature and Folklore of the Academy of Sciences; PhD supervisor and DSc consultant.
  • Founder and editor-in-chief of the Yurislingvistika digital research platform.

Selected publications

  • 2025«Sud lingvistik ekspertizasi» — Tashkent State University of Law Textbook
  • 2024«Yurislingvistika va lingvistik ekspertiza asoslari» Textbook
  • 2024«Yurislingvistika» Monograph
  • 2022«Qonun tili lingvistikasi» Monograph
  • 2014«Ruscha-o‘zbekcha yuridik terminlar lug‘ati» — Co-authored with N. Sharipova. Tashkent: UWED, 233 pp. Dictionary
  • 2013«Yuridik til nazariyasi va amaliyoti» — Tashkent: UWED, 220 pp. Textbook
  • 2004«Huquqiy normalarni o‘zbek tilida ifodalashning ilmiy-nazariy muammolari (lingvo-yuridik tahlil)» — DSc in Philology. Author’s abstract. Doctoral dissertation
  • 2002«Diplomatik til asoslari» — Tashkent: UWED, 120 pp. Study guide
  • 2001«Qonunchilik texnikasi asoslari» — Co-authored with A. Saidov. Tashkent: Adolat, 228 pp. Study guide
  • 1997«Qonun va til» — Co-authored with A. Saidov, L. Saidova and M. Kasymova. Tashkent, 224 pp. Monograph
  • 1996«O‘zbekiston Respublikasida qonunchilik texnikasi (til, uslub, huquqiy atamashunoslik)» — Language, style and legal terminology. Tashkent: Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 100 pp. Monograph
  • 1995«O‘zbekiston Respublikasi qonunlarining tili» — Based on the Constitution, Criminal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure. Candidate (PhD) dissertation

plus more than 150 scholarly articles