Меню
Zhakayeva Leila Sultanovna
Born on 3 March 1960.
Graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University (1982) with a degree in Law.
Candidate of Legal Sciences (1988) and Doctor of Legal Sciences (2008). She defended both dissertations at Lomonosov Moscow State University.
She began her professional career as a lecturer at the Department of State Law of Karaganda State University (1988–1997). From 1984 to 1987, she pursued postgraduate studies at Lomonosov Moscow State University.
She worked at E.A. Buketov Karaganda State University as a Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Constitutional and International Law, Senior Research Fellow, and concurrently as Assistant to the Rector (1988–2009). From 1997 to 2000, she served as Senior Assistant to a District Prosecutor in the Karaganda Region.
She served as Chief Research Fellow at the Department of Legal Monitoring and Analysis of Legislation of the Institute of Legislation of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2009); Assistant to the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Kazakhstan at the Department for Supervision in the Sphere of Legislative Activity of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and Senior Assistant to the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Kazakhstan at the Secretariat of the Prosecutor General (2009–2011); Adviser to the Chairperson of the Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2011–2013); and Deputy Head of the Analysis and Planning Division of the Department for Court Administration under the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2013–2019).
She served as Head of the Research Center for the Study of Administrative and Criminal Justice Issues at the Research Institute of Judicial, Legal and Innovative Projects of the Academy of Justice under the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2019), and as Professor at the Scientific and Educational Center for State and Legal Disciplines of the Academy of Justice under the High Judicial Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2020–23.09.2026).
She was appointed Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan (since 23.09.2026).
She was awarded the Order of Qurmet (2026); the medals “20 Years of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan” (2011), “20 Years of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan” (2011), “15 Years of the Faculty of Law of L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University” (2014), “For Impeccable Service” (2018), “Excellence in the Judicial System” (2019), “For Contribution to Strengthening Constitutional Legality” (2019), “25 Years of the Constitution of Kazakhstan” (2020), “30 Years of the Judicial System of the Republic of Kazakhstan” (2022), and “30 Years of the Constitution of Kazakhstan” (2025); as well as Certificates of Honor from the Chairperson of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2015) and the Chairperson of the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2023).