From 1997 to 2000 he worked in certain state bodies of Armenia, including the Yerevan City Council, the Ministry of Defense of Armenia, and the First Instance Court. He also taught human rights and administrative law at Secondary School N120 and the Armenian Police Academy. From 2001 to 2007 he taught constitutional law, human rights and media law at the Faculty of Law of Yerevan State University. From 2001 to 2003 he worked in a number of non-governmental organizations, including the Armenian Bar Association Center for pro bono legal services as a director, the "Civil Education Program" international organization as a project coordinator, and the NGO "Internews" as a lawyer. During this period he taught human rights in Abkhazia, South Ossetia and in seminars for journalists held in Nagorno-Karabakh. In 2003, he was a senior research fellow at the Center for Socio-Legal Studies at University of Oxford in the UK. From 2003 to 2004 he worked in a number of international organizations as an international expert and advisor, including "Article 19" in Great Britain, "Open Society Justice Initiative" in Hungary, and "Access to Information" in Bulgaria. From 2005 to 2008 Andreasyan worked at the
American Bar Association as a lawyer, then as a senior staff attorney and finally as a deputy director. From 2006 to 2007 he served as an advisor to the president of the Constitutional Court of Armenia. From 2008 to 2011 he founded and worked as a managing partner of "DEFENCE" Law Firm, which later merged with another company and renamed "AM" Law Firm. It is currently one of the leading firms in Armenia. From 2007 to 2010 he conducted a number of television and civic projects. In cooperation with European Journalism Center, he organized a competition on Information Law and Investigative Journalism for law and journalism students. He hosted programs for the TV companies Yerkir Media and Armenia TV. In 2011 Karen Andreasyan was elected by the National Assembly of Armenia as Human Rights Defender (ombudsman). In 2022, he was elected the Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council. == References ==