Jaanus Tehver is a defence lawyer and member of the Board of the Estonian Bar Association. From 1998-1999, he belonged to a team of experts drafting the new Estonian Penal Code. In 2005-2007, he took part in the project ‘The International Criminal Court from the perspective of defence lawyers’ at the Academy of European Law (ERA).    

Jaanus has acted as a national expert in several EU-wide research projects in the field of criminal law and procedure, including the European Arrest Warrant procedure, and has lectured on issues of defence rights and criminal procedure at various seminars and conferences all over Europe.