European Constitutional Judges – Albania
- Dr. Vitore Tusha, President of the Constitutional Court of Albania
She is the co-author of the Civil Law textbook and has participated as a legal expert in the drafting process of several laws. In March 2008 she has been appointed member of the Constitutional Court. From January 2019 until December 2020, she has performed the duty of the Deputy Chief of Justice Appointments Council, and the duties of Acting President of the Constitutional Court. Since January 2021, being the most senior judge in office, she has been authorized to perform the function of the President of the Constitutional Court.
Secretary of the President
Tel: +355 04 2228357
Email: sekretar.kryetar@gjk.gov.al
http://www.gjk.gov.al/web/Cabinet_of_the_President_641_2.php
- Dr. Elsa Toska, member of the Constitutional Court of Albania
During the period 2007-2019 she has served as legal adviser at the Constitutional Court. From 2005 and onwards she has been a lecturer of Administrative and Constitutional Law at several universities, as well as a Human Rights Trainer inside and outside the country. Since 2010 she has been engaged as an external legal consultant in several projects of international organisations related to human rights and judiciary. She has been a member of three working groups of the Justice System Reform regarding the constitutional amendments, amendments to the Law on organization and the functioning of the Constitutional Court of Albania and draft law on the President of the Republic. She is the author of many publications, textbooks or monographs, to be dinguished here the monograph “Review of administrative activity in the case law of Constitutional Court of Albania”, and the co-author of “Administrative Law – Control over Public Administration” 2013, an academic text approved by the Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Tirana. She is the author of numerous scientific papers and has played an active role in many national and international scientific conferences related to constitutional justice. In November 2019 she has been appointed member of the Constitutional Court.
https://www.gjk.gov.al/web/Composition_90_2.php
- Marsida Xhaferllari, member of the Constitutional Court of Albania
From 1999 until 2007 she has served as judge at Fieri Judicial District Court. From 2007 until 2013 she has served at the legal-professional structures of the Ministry of Justice as the Minister’s Advisor, General Director of Codification Department and General Director of Justice Affairs. Because of these duties, she has been a member of several commissions and steering committees such as the Ethics Commission of National Judicial Conference, Steering Council of the School of Magistrates, Administrative Council of Social Insurance Institute and Commission of Consumer Protection. In January 2013 she has been appointed as the Chief Inspector of the Inspectorate of High Council of Justice. Since 2015 and onwards she has been engaged in teaching activities, including the Initial and Continuing Training Programs at the School of Magistrates, and has been a legal expert in projects related to the justice system. From 2015 until 2016 has been part of the High Level Experts Group of the Justice System Reform, giving her contribution to the drafting of judiciary and financing of judiciary laws. She is the author of several working manuals for drafting of legislation and inspection issues. In November 2019 she has been appointed member of the Constitutional Court.
https://www.gjk.gov.al/web/Composition_90_2.php
- Dr. Fiona Papajorgji, member of the Constitutional Court of Albania
From 2009 until 2011 she has served as lawyer at the Department of Studies, Researches and Publications at the Constitutional Court. From 2011 until 2019 she has served as legal adviser at the Constitutional Court. Since 2007 and onwards she has been engaged in teaching activities as a lecturer of Public Law in some universities. She is the author of several scientific articles in the field of constitutional law. In 2019 she has been engaged by the School of Magistrates as available professor for the Initial Training Program. In November 2019 she has been appointed member of the Constitutional Court.
https://www.gjk.gov.al/web/Composition_90_2.php
- Altin Binaj, member of the Constitutional Court of Albania
From 2008 until 2010 has served as the Head of the Prosecution Office near Fieri Judicial District, and from 2010 until 2013 as the Head of the Prosecution Office near Durrësi Judicial District. From 2012 until 2014 has been member of the Prosecution Council, elected by the General Meeting of the Prosecutors of the Republic of Albania as representative of the prosecution offices near the first instance courts. In 2013 was appointed as Prosecutor at the General Prosecutor’s Office, where during the period 2014 – 2015 has served as the Head of Department against Economic Crime, Corruption and Serious Crimes. From 2016 until 2020 has exercised the duty of the Head of Prosecution Office near the Court of Appeal of Vlora.
Since 2002 and onwards has been engaged in several training programs inside and outside the country, including the Continuing Training Programs of the School of Magistrates, playing the role of expert in some training sessions. From 2008 until 2011 has been lecturer of the Criminal Law at several non-public institutions of higher education. In December 2020 has been appointed member of the Constitutional Court.
https://www.gjk.gov.al/web/Composition_90_2.php
- Përparim Kalo, member of the Constitutional Court of Albania
From 1990 until 1993 he has worked as Inspector at the Ministry of Justice, after its re-introduction to the Albanian justice system. From 1993 until 1994 has worked at the Insurance Institute (INSIG) as Legal Advisor for the Green Card System – Albanian Insurance Bureau. In 1994 he has started working as lawyer and for 26 years has headed the Law Firm ‘KALO & ASSOCIATES’, known as provider of legal services in various fields of commercial law in Albania and Kosovo. In this context, he has personally provided legal services to the development agencies, international, public, private and financial institutions, embassies and multinational societies. He has provided special legal services in a number of privatization projects of strategic state-owned enterprises, as well as in private transactions very important to the Albanian economy. He has actively participated in the drafting of several laws in the field of commercial law, in the framework of legal and institutional reforms and of the Acquis Communautaire, funded by the World Bank, IFC, EBRD, KFW, COUNCIL OF EUROPE, EU, GIZ, etc. He is the author of many articles on legal issues published in several Albanian and foreign legal journals and expert in the training programs at the School of Magistrates. In December 2020 he has been appointed member of the Constitutional Court.
https://www.gjk.gov.al/web/Composition_90_2.php
- Sonila Bejtja, member of the Constitutional Court of Albania
From 1999 – 2004 she practiced law at the Law Firm “Boga & Associates”. From 2004 until 2011 she worked as a lawyer and legal consultant in several projects of the World Bank, the Italian-Albanian Bank, the Savings Bank during its privatization, the National Bank of Puglia, the Italian Development Bank, as well as at the Ministry of Economy and Albanian Radio Television. Since 2011 and onwards she has practiced the profession of notary. She is a member of the National Chamber of Notaries and the Chamber of Notaries Tirana, as well as a former member of the National Chamber of Advocates. In December 2020 she has been appointed member of the Constitutional Court.
https://www.gjk.gov.al/web/Composition_90_2.php
Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Phone: +387 33 251 226
Fax: +387 33 561 134
Email: info@ustavnisud.ba
www.ustavnisud.ba
- Mato Tadić, president of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina
In May 2002, he was appointed to the office of Judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He took the office in May 2003 following the constituting session of the Constitutional Court. At the same time, he took the office of the President of the Constitutional Court of BiH and served to 2006. From 2015 to 2021, he served as the Vice-President of the Constitutional Court of BiH. He took the office of the President for the second term in June 2021. He is also a lecturer in the organization „OKO“ (Criminal Defence Section) and the OSCE Mission to BiH. As a legal expert, he participated in many international conferences on Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Federation of BiH, including the conference held in Dayton. He is also a participant of numerous national and international conferences on the constitutional law and role of the Constitutional Court in protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms and the rule of law.
https://www.ustavnisud.ba/en/mato-tadic
- Miodrag Simović, vice-president of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina
He took the office of Judge of the Constitutional Court of BiH in May 2003. He served as the Vice-President of the Constitutional Court of BiH from May 2003 to May 2009, serving two consecutive terms. He served as the President of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina from May 2009 to May 2012. From 2012 to 2015, he served as the Vice-President again. He was re-elected the Vice-President of the Court in 2021. He was appointed to the office of Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republika Srpska in December 1998. He remained in office until May 2003. He is a full professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Law, University of Istočno Sarajevo and Faculty of Law, University of Bihać. He was mentor and a member of several commissions for the defence of master theses and doctoral dissertations. As of 2011, he is an international member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. As of 2012, he is a corresponding member and as of 2018 a full member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2014, he is a full member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is the Secretary of the Department for Social Sciences, member of the Presidency and President of the Legal Sciences Board of the Department for Social Sciences of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He presented over 500 papers to the scientific and professional community. He is an author of 84 books (23 as an author and 61 as a co-author). As a speaker, he participated at over 250 scientific and professional events, in the country and abroad. He also participated in 11 international projects.
https://www.ustavnisud.ba/en/miodrag-simovic
- Mirsad Ćeman, vice-president of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina
He took the office of Judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in October 2008. He served as the President from 2015 to 2018. He was elected the Vice-President of the Constitutional Court in 2018 and re-elected in 2021 for another three-year term. From 1990 to 2006 he served as a representative in the legislative bodies of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Assembly of S/RBiH, etc.), actively involved in expert/legal working bodies. He was a member of regular or ad hoc commissions dealing with constitutional matters. He has taken part in many conferences on the topic of constitutional issues in Bosnia and Herzegovina. From 2007 until his appointment to the office of Judge of the Constitutional Court of BiH, he practised as a lawyer in Sarajevo. He is also an authorised mediator. He pursued his professional development in the country and abroad in the following subject areas: judicial reform, application of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, law drafting, criminal, civil and other proceedings, international humanitarian law, etc. He is a co-author of the Law Drafting Manual as a part of the Judicial Development Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was engaged as a consultant in drafting a number of systemic laws and other regulations. He is a long-standing member of the Committee of Bar Examiners at the level of Bosnia and Herzegovina and examiner in the subject of Constitutional System and Organisation of Judiciary (earlier for the subject of Administrative and Labour Law).
https://www.ustavnisud.ba/en/mirsad-ceman
- Valerija Galić, judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina
In 2002, she was appointed to the office of Judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in May 2002. She took the office following the constituting session of the new composition of judges of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Between 2006 and 2012, she served as the Vice-President of the Constitutional Court of BiH for two terms. She served as the President of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2012 to 2015. She was a member of a number of working commissions tasked with drafting systemic laws in various fields. As a representative of BiH from FBiH and a member of the Commission for Harmonization of the Legal System with the European Legislation, she participated in several international programs held in USA and France (Strasbourg).
https://www.ustavnisud.ba/en/valerija-galic
- Seada Palavrić, Bosnia and Herzegovina
She took the office of Judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in January 2006. She held the office of the President of the Court from 2008 to 2009 and in that capacity signed the Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation with the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Turkey. In 2009, she took the office of the Vice-President of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina serving two terms until 2015. From 2002 to 2005, she was a representative in the House of Representatives of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly, where she discharged the duties of a member of the Parliamentary Delegation to OSCE, Committee on Foreign Affairs and Committee for Defence and Security Policy thereby taking an active part in the BiH defence reform. She was a member of the FBiH Team involved in the Arbitration Award for Dobrinja in accordance with the Decision of the High Representative for BiH. She published a number of professional. She attended a great number of conferences, both in the country and abroad, dealing with the topics of human rights and fundamental freedoms, namely the jurisdiction and decisions of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
https://www.ustavnisud.ba/en/seada-palavric
- Zlatko M. Knežević, Bosnia and Herzegovina
He took the office of Judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in July 2011. He served as the President of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina from May 2018 to May 2021. In his capacity as a member of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe since 2013, he has participated in the work of the sub-commissions for judiciary system, fundamental rights and minority rights. From 2015 to 2017, he held the office of the Deputy President of the Sub-Commission for Minorities and Minority Rights and since 2017 the office of the Deputy President of the Sub-Commission for Constitutional Judiciary. He is a regular Rapporteur in the Venice Commission in the field of sub-commissions run by him. He is fluent in English and Russian.
https://www.ustavnisud.ba/en/zlatko-m-knezevic
- Angelika Nussberger, Bosnia and Herzegovina
She took the office of international judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in June 2020. She was a Visiting Researcher at Harvard University (1994 to 1995), a Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Social Law in Munich (1993 to 2001) and a Legal Adviser at the Council of Europe. She was also holding a position of a Member of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations of the International Labour Organisation (2003 to 2010) and Substitute Member of the Venice Commission (2006 to 2010) and Member of the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences (2008 to 2010). In 2009, she was Member of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia (IIFFMCG). In 2011, she was elected Judge on behalf of Germany for the European Court of Human Rights. In 2012, she was appointed to the position of the Vice-President of Section V and in 2015, the President of the same Section. She was elected to a position of the Vice-President of the European Court in 2017. As of 2002, she is Full Professor of Law at the University of Cologne where she held a position of the Vice-Rector of the University in 2010. The title of Doctor honoris causa was conferred to her by the State University of Tbilisi (2010), the Academy of Advocacy of Ukraine (2018) and the University of Sibiu, Romania (2019). She was awarded the Schader Prize (2015), the Arthur-Burkhardt Prize (2019), a Honorary Certificate of Japan (2019) and the Officier de la Legion d’honneur (2019). She is a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, the German member of the Venice Commission, the Vice-President of the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and the member of the Association of German Constitutional Law Professors. She is a member of the Board of the German Lawyers’ Association and of the Board of the Institute for Legal Policy.
https://www.ustavnisud.ba/en/angelika-nussberger
- Helen Keller, Bosnia and Herzegovina
She took the office of Judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in December 2020. She was a Visiting Researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for International Law of Heidelberg (Germany) in 2000. Worked as a Professor of International Law, Constitutional Law and European Law at the University of Lucerne, from 2001 to 2004, and from 2004 to 2011 at the University of Zurich. She was a Board Member of the International Law Commission, Swiss Section, from 2008 to 2011, and a Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, in the same period. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Oslo (Norway), in 2010. She served as Judge of the European Court of Human Rights from 2011 to 2020.
https://www.ustavnisud.ba/en/helen-keller-21
Constitutional Court of Croatia
tel: +385 1 6400 250
fax: +385 1 4551 055
e-mail: Ustavni_sud@usud.hr
www.usud.hr
- Miroslav Šeparović, Croatia
President of the Constitutional Court of Croatia.
He is a Croatian lawyer who serves as the 5th President of the Constitutional Court of Croatia since 13 June 2016, had previously served as a 5th Minister of Justice in the Cabinet of Zlatko Mateša from 1995 to 1998. He was member of the Association of Defence Counsel Practising before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague and was for a time an attorney at this Tribunal. He was also member of the Council for the Civil Control of Security and Intelligence Agencies and external member of the Committee for the Judiciary of the Croatian Parliament. He is a regular member of the Croatian Academy of Legal Sciences. She was member of the Council for Monitoring the Implementing the Justice Reform Strategy, coordinator of the Croatian Government for succession issues and head of the Croatian delegation in the Joint Permanent Committee for Implementing the Agreement on Succession Issues. Since 2005 she has been member of the Negotiating Team for Accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union.
https://www.usud.hr/en/president
- Snježana Bagić, Croatia
She is the deputy-president of the Constitutional Court of Croatia. She was appointed Secretary of the Ministry in 1995, and in 1997 she became Deputy Minister of Justice and Head of the Office for Cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice. From 2000 to 2003 she was head of the Office for Legislation of the Croatian Government. She was elected judge of the Zagreb County Court in 2003, and in 2004 she became State Secretary of the Ministry of Justice, which she remained until her election as judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia. She was member of the Croatian delegation for resolving property rights disputes with the Republics of Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia; member of the negotiation team with the Republic of Slovenia on resolving the commitments of the Republics of Croatia and Slovenia towards the Republic of Italy deriving from the Osim Agreements.
https://www.usud.hr/en/judges
- Andrej Abramović, Croatia
Judge of the Constitutional Court since 7 June 2016. From 2007 to 2012 he was judge at Zagreb Municipal Civil Court, where for a certain time he headed the group for media lawsuits. From 2012 until he was elected judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia, he was judge at Zagreb Administrative Court, and acted as its President. He was member of the Ministry of Justice working group for monitoring and implementing the Administrative Disputes Act. He is the author of several professional papers in civil and civil procedural law as well as in administrative and constitutional law.
https://www.usud.hr/en/judges
- Ingrid Antičević Marinović, Croatia
From 2001 to 2003, she performed the function of Minister of Justice, Administration and Local Self-government and participated in the drafting of many legislative proposals. n her last term of office, from 2015 until her election as judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia, she was member of the Committee for the Constitution, Standing Orders and the Political System, the Legislation Committee, the Inter-parliamentary Co-operation Committee, the delegation of the Croatian Parliament to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and the National Council for the Implementation of the Anti-corruption Strategy. She also performed the function of observer at the European Parliament and of substitute member of the Assembly for the Election of Judges of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
https://www.usud.hr/en/judges
- Mato Arlović, Croatia
Judge of the Constitutional Court of Croatia since 21 July 2009. He was elected Member of the Croatian Parliament for five terms from 1990 to 2008. In the term of 2004-2007 he was vice-president of the Croatian Parliament, head of the permanent delegation of the Croatian Parliament to the Assembly of the WEU, member of the extended presidency of the Assembly of the WEU, member of the Constitution, Rules of Procedure and Political System Committee and member of the Agriculture Committee.
https://www.usud.hr/en/judges
- Branko Brkić, Croatia
Judge of the Constitutional Court of Croatia since 7 June 2016. From 1984 to 1991 he was judge at Obrovac Municipal Court, and from 1991 to 1996 at Zadar County Court. From 1992 to 1996 he was judge at the Split Military Court. From 2006 until he was elected judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia he was judge of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia. He is member of the Croatian Association for Criminal Law Sciences and Practice. From 2010 to 2012 he was member of the National Judicial Council.
https://www.usud.hr/en/judges
- Mario Jelušić, Croatia
Judge of the Constitutional Court since 7 June 2016. From 1991 he was research assistant at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb, and then assistant professor in the Department of Constitutional Law. From 1996 to 1999 he was external member of the Committee for Legislation and the Committee for the Constitution, Standing Orders and Political System of the House of Representatives of the Croatian Parliament, member of the working group for drafting the Constitutional Act on the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia in 1998, and in 1999 member of the working group for the Draft of the Principles and Basic Institutes of Croatian Electoral Legislation. From 2001 to 2004 he was local expert for European Union projects in Croatia (Support to the Judiciary in Legal Advice and Conducting Proceedings, and Public Administration Reform). He is the author of scholarly and professional works in constitutional law, the history of Croatian law and state, local and regional self-government and other fields of law.
https://www.usud.hr/en/judges
- Lovorka Kušan, Croatia
Judge of the Constitutional Court since 7 June 2016. In 1998 she was enrolled in the Register of Attorneys of the Croatian Bar Association and worked as an attorney at law until her election as judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia. As of 2000 she has represented clients before the European Court of Human Rights, and has been engaged in strategic litigation in the fields of hate crime, the right to a home, discrimination, the right to education and the rights of persons with disabilities. She has held many lectures on the applicaton of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and on the prevention of discrimination and has presented papers at numerous conferences, round tables and expert gatherings on human rights. She has published several expert articles on the case law of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
https://www.usud.hr/en/judges
- Josip Leko, Croatia
Judge of the Constitutional Court since 7 June 2016. He was elected Member of the Croatian Parliament for five consecutive convocations from 2000 to 2015, during which he performed and held various functions. In his last term of office, from 2015 until being elected Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia, he was member of the Committee on the Constitution, Standing Orders and the Political System, the Legislation Committee, the Judiciary Committee, the State Attorney Council, and the State Judiciary Council from the ranks of Members of Parliament.
https://www.usud.hr/en/judges
- Davorin Mlakar, Croatia
Judge of the Constitutional Court since 7 June 2016. From 2011 until his election as judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia, he was Member of Parliament of the Republic of Croatia, where he was president of the Foreign Policy Committee, vice-president of the Committee for the Constitution, Standing Orders and Political System, and member of the Committee for Legislation. He was representative of the Government of the Republic of Croatia and negotiator in the process of the reintegration of Eastern Slavonia in the constitutional and legal order of the Republic of Croatia. He has taken part in several international projects, including the Kingdom of Denmark project on the horizontal correlation of the central bodies of state administration and a World Bank project related to salaries and state and public administration. He is also co-author of several legal texts in the field of administration and the judiciary.
https://www.usud.hr/en/judges
- Rajko Mlinarić, Croatia
Judge of the Constitutional Court since 7 June 2016. From 2015 until being elected judge of the Constitutional Court, he was judge of the Higher Disciplinary Court of the Croatian Bar Association. He conducted practical exercises and workshops in the area of criminal and criminal-procedural law in the Department of Criminal Law and the Department of Criminal Procedural Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb. He is member of the Croatian Association for Criminal Law Science and Practice. He is the author of a number of professional and research papers, mainly in the field of criminal law. He has participated in a large number of domestic and foreign congresses and seminars.
https://www.usud.hr/en/judges
- Goran Selanec, Croatia
Judge of the Constitutional Court since 13 October 2017. From 2001 to 2009 he worked at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb, first as a junior research assistant in the Department of Constitutional Law, then as senior assistant in the Department of European Public Law. In 2010 he worked as an expert advisor in the EU PHARE project “Harmonisation and Publication of Case Law” at the Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia. From 2009 to 2012 he acted as a national gender equality expert in the European Network of National Legal Experts in Gender Equality of the European Commission. Since 2012, he has been an occasional guest lecturer at the Europäische Rechtsakademie (Academy of European Law – ERA). He has also acted as a legal expert in the following EU Progress projects: “EU Charter of Fundamental Rights” (2014) and “Support for the Implementation of the Anti-discrimination Act” (2009) at the Office for National Minorities and Human Rights of the Government of the Republic of Croatia.
https://www.usud.hr/en/judges
- Miroslav Šumanović, Croatia
Judge of the Constitutional Court since 7 June 2016. In 2002 he was enrolled in the Register of Attorneys of the Croatian Bar Association and worked as an attorney at law until his election as judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia. From 2001 to 2002 he coordinated and headed the group for drafting the Act on the Liability of the Republic of Croatia for Damage Caused by Terrorist Acts and Public Demonstrations, the Act on the Liability of the Republic of Croatia for Damage Caused by Members of the Croatian Armed Forces and Police During the Homeland War, the Act on the Liability of the Republic of Croatia for Damage Caused in the Former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) for which the Former SFRY was Responsible.
https://www.usud.hr/en/judges
Supreme Court of Cyprus
Tel: (+357) 22865741
Fax: (+357) 22304500
E-mail: chief.reg@sc.judicial.gov.cy
- Persefoni Panayi, Cyprus
She has served as President of the District Courts of Larnaca, Limassol and Nicosia and as Administrative President of the District Court of Larnaca-Famagusta and has also presided over the Permanent Assize Court. Justice Panayi was appointed to the Supreme Court on the 29th August 2012 and took up appointment as President of the Court on 10th November 2020. She is the chairperson of the Rules Committee, appointed by the Supreme Court to collaborate with an Expert Group under the guidance of the Rt. Hon. Lord Dyson for the purpose of reviewing and modernizing the Civil Procedure Rules. She is also on the list of ad hoc judges of the European Court of Human Rights.
http://www.supremecourt.gov.cy/Judicial/sc.nsf/All/4D772CA619851773C22584390027FEE7?OpenDocument
- Leonidas Parparinos, Cyprus
He has served in every District Court and Assize Court of Cyprus. He presided over the Assize Court of Paphos between 2003 – 2005 and he also served as Administrative President of the District Court of Larnaca in 2008 – 2009. In 2009, he was appointed Administrative President of the District Court of Nicosia, until October 2012, when he was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court. Between 2008 – 2010, he acted as President of the Cyprus Judges Association and took part in a large number of conferences in Cyprus and abroad.
http://www.supremecourt.gov.cy/judicial/sc.nsf/All/BC1BF91D9F481CDBC225843900280A19?OpenDocument
- Antonis R. Liatsos, Cyprus
He acted as President of the Larnaca Permanent Assize Court and as the Administrative President of the Nicosia/Kyrenia District Courts. He is, since September 2013, Justice of the Supreme Court of Cyprus. In 2010 he was elected as President of the Cyprus Judges Association, and served this position until his appointment as Justice of the Supreme Court. As a representative of the Judiciary, he was a member of the Reformatory Policy Committee, and as a member of the Delegation of the Republic of Cyprus, he attended for many years, at the United Nations´ offices in Vienna, the programme of the United Nations Committee for the Prevention of Crime and Criminal Justice.
http://www.supremecourt.gov.cy/judicial/sc.nsf/All/E68115A00995E1F3C22584390028321F?OpenDocument
- Katerina Stamatiou, Cyprus
She served for one term in the committee of the Limassol Bar Association. In 1993 she was appointed District Judge, in 2000 she was promoted to Senior District Judge and in 2004 she was promoted to District Court President. She served as President of the Assize Court of Paphos and Limassol and Administrative President of the Paphos and Limassol District Courts. She was appointed to the Supreme Court on 16th September 2013.
http://www.supremecourt.gov.cy/judicial/sc.nsf/All/815BFE14807979E8C225843900283E90?OpenDocument
- Yiasemis N. Yiasemis, Cyprus
He practised as an advocate from 1985 until 1992, as a member of the Bar Council of Ammochostos and in January 1993 he was appointed as District Judge. As a first instance Judge, he served in all jurisdictions, including that of the Permanent Assize Court and at all levels of the first instant hierarchy. He served for a term as the Vice President of the Cyprus Judgesʼ Association. He was appointed to the Supreme Court of Cyprus in January 2014, where he still serves.
http://www.supremecourt.gov.cy/Judicial/sc.nsf/All/B8D3B0DD4E61456EC225843900284C88?OpenDocument
- Tefkros Th. Economou, Cyprus
He practiced Law at Larnaca from 1987 until 1997. On 11.1.1993 he was appointed District Judge and οn 19.11.2001 he was appointed Senior District Judge. On 11.2.2008 he was appointed President of District Court serving as President of the Assize Court and as Administrative President of the District Court of Nicosia. On 1.9.2014 he was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court.
http://www.supremecourt.gov.cy/judicial/sc.nsf/All/5CD5227A394D8ACBC2258439002864F2?OpenDocument
- Tasia Psara-Miltiadou, Cyprus
She served for two terms as a Senior District Judge of the Assize Court of Paphos and for one term as President of the Assize Court of Limassol.
She has been appointed as a Supreme Court Judge on the 15th of January 2015.
http://www.supremecourt.gov.cy/judicial/sc.nsf/All/3735B63F3EB66987C22584400027ECFF?OpenDocument
- Androula Stylianidou Pouyourou, Cyprus
She practiced as a lawyer for 14 years, between 1977 and 1991, when she was appointed as a District Judge. She initially served at the District Court of Nicosia and later at the District Courts of Paphos and Limassol. In 2000 she was promoted to the post of Senior District Judge and in 2009 was appointed President of the District Court. She served as Administrative President of the District Courts of Limassol and Paphos and as President of the Assize Court of Paphos. She is a member of the Supreme Court of Cyprus from 4.1.2017.
http://www.supremecourt.gov.cy/Judicial/sc.nsf/All/37123F02715BDD43C22584400020F072?OpenDocument
- Charis Malachtos, Cyprus
He served as President of the Paphos Permanent Assize Court and the Limassol Permanent Assize Court and as Administrative President of the District Court of Larnaca-Famagusta and of the District Court of Limassol. He was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court on the 15th of October 2019.
http://www.supremecourt.gov.cy/Judicial/sc.nsf/All/913E021CEE30ABB6C22584C7001D24DB?OpenDocument
- Dora Socratous, Cyprus
She served as President of the Assize Court of Paphos and as Administrative President of the District Court of Paphos from 2015 until the 7th of December, 2020 when she was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court.
http://www.supremecourt.gov.cy/Judicial/sc.nsf/All/D42A8FF98D9C9D6EC225863400392687?OpenDocument
- Lena Demetriadou-Andreou, Cyprus
She was appointed in the Judicial Service as acting District Judge on November 1995 and as a District Judge on November 1996. Since that date until February 2004 she was holding the position of District Judge. • Since 2001 until 2015 she was an Examiner on the subject of Criminal Procedure, which is one of the subjects in the examinations that are held by the Cyprus Legal Council for acquiring the right to practice as a lawyer in the Republic of Cyprus. Since October 2018 until today she is a Trainer in the Group of Trainers of the National School of Judges. Since October 2020 she is a member of the Permanent Monitoring Committee for Judicial Conduct and Ethics. On 7/12/2020 she was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court.
http://www.supremecourt.gov.cy/Judicial/sc.nsf/All/4431D772B719591DC22586340039378E?OpenDocument
- Ioannis Ioannides, Cyprus
He graduated from the Pancyprian Gymnasium and of the Law School of the University of Athens. He practiced Law at Nicosia from 1988. On the 20.11.1995 he was appointed District Judge serving at the District Court of Nicosia. On 15.2.2004 he was appointed Senior District Judge. On 12.11.2012 he was appointed President of District Court. He served as President of the Limassol Permanent Assize Court and as Administrative President of the District Court of Nicosia and of the District Court of Larnaca. On 7.12.2020 he was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court.
http://www.supremecourt.gov.cy/Judicial/sc.nsf/All/6C0D827D4A89DF3CC225863400394C2E?OpenDocument
- Nicholas Santis, Cyprus
He participated as a member of the Committee on Judicial Reform, and the Rules Committee. He was a Trainer Judge in the Cyprus School for Judicial Training, and President elect of the Cyprus Judges Association for three consecutive terms until his appointment as Supreme Court Justice (2013-2020). He was a Member of the Cyprus Crime Prevention Council for seven years, representing therein the Cypriot Judiciary by permission and selection of the Supreme Court of Cyprus. He successfully completed assigned chairmanship duties in various Working Groups during the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the European Union (2012). He gave lectures in local universities and international legal conferences, and has written legal articles which have been published in Cypriot and international journals.
http://www.supremecourt.gov.cy/Judicial/sc.nsf/All/35D40A4F1A96247BC22586340039672D?OpenDocument
Constitutional Court of France
- Laurent Fabius, France
He is a French politician serving as President of the Constitutional Council since 8 March 2016. A member of the Socialist Party, he previously served as Prime Minister of France from 17 July 1984 to 20 March 1986. Fabius was 37 years old when he was appointed and is, so far, the youngest Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic. Fabius was also President of the National Assembly from 1988 to 1992 and again from 1997 to 2000. Fabius served in the government as Minister of Finance from 2000 to 2002 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2016.
https://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/en/laurent-fabius
- Claire Bazy Malauri, France
Vice-President of the Venice Commission. She was appointed 31 August 2010, and reappointed on 12 February 2013 by the President of the National Assembly.
https://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/en/claire-bazy-malaurie
- Nicole Maestracci, France
Appointed on 12 February 2013 by the President of the Republic.
https://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/en/nicole-maestracci
- Michel Pinault, France
Appointed on 19 February 2016 by the President of the Senate.
https://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/en/michel-pinault
- Corinne Luquiens, France
Appointed on 18 February 2016 by the President of the National Assembly.
https://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/en/corinne-luquiens
- Dominique Lottin, France
Appointed on 25 October 2017 by the President of the Senate.
https://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/en/dominique-lottin
- Jacques Mézard, France
Appointed on 22 February 2019 by the President of the Republic. He is a French lawyer and politician of the Radical Party of the Left. He previously served as Minister of Agriculture and Food in 2017 and Minister of Territorial Cohesion from 2017 to 2018. A member of the Radical Party of the Left (PRG), he was a Senator representing the Cantal department from 2008 to 2017 and again from 2018 until 2019.
https://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/en/jacques-mezard
- François Pillet, France
Appointed 21 February 2019 by the President of the Senate. He is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Cher department. He is a member of The Republicans.
https://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/en/francois-pillet
- Alain Juppé, France
Appointed on 21 February 2019 by the President of the National Assembly. A member of The Republicans, he was Prime Minister of France from 1995 to 1997 under President Jacques Chirac. He had previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1993 to 1995, and as Minister of the Budget and Spokesman for the Government from 1986 to 1988. He was President of the political party Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) from 2002 to 2004 and mayor of Bordeaux from 1995 to 2004.
https://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/en/alain-juppe
Supreme Special Court of Greece (Areopagite)
- Maria Georgioum, Greece
President of the Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece
She was originally appointed as Associate Judge at the Athens Court of First Instance. To this extent, however, by an act of the Head of the Athens Court of First Instance, she exercised the duties of First Instance Judge in divisions of automobile disputes. She was promoted to the rank of First Instance Judge in 1985 and served in the Athens Court of First Instance. During her services in this rank she served in almost all departments and at the same time acted as a Criminal Judge. On 22nd March 2017, she was promoted to Supreme Court Judge (Areopagite), appeared and took up her duties on 19-4-2017 and joined the 6th Criminal Division of the Supreme Court. On July 2nd , 2020, she was promoted to the rank of Vice President of the Supreme Court and was appointed as President of the Criminal Division of the Supreme Court, where she exercised these duties.She was elected President of the Hellenic Supreme Court of Civil and Criminal Justice on 30th June 2021.
http://www.areiospagos.gr/en/
- Angeliki Aleiferopoulou, Greece
Former president of the Supreme Civil and Criminal Court (1/7/2020 – 30/6/2021)
In 2012 she was promoted to Supreme Court Judge (Areopagite) and initially joined the B2 Civil Department of the Supreme Court, while later she served in the 5th Criminal Department. In 2017 she was promoted to the rank of Vice President of the Supreme Court and was appointed as President of the 7th Criminal Department of the above mentioned Court, where she held these duties for three years. She was elected President of the Hellenic Supreme Court of Civil and Criminal Justice on 30-6-2020.
http://www.areiospagos.gr/en/
Constitutional Court of Italy
- Giancarlo Coraggio, Italy
He is an Italian judge. He has been Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy since 28 January 2013 and President of the Constitutional Court since 18 December 2020. Previously he served as President of the Italian Council of State.
- Giuliano Amato, Italy
Italian politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Italy, first from 1992 to 1993 and again from 2000 to 2001. Later, he was Vice President of the Convention on the Future of Europe that drafted the European Constitution and headed the Amato Group. He is commonly nicknamed dottor Sottile, (which means “Doctor Subtilis”, the sobriquet of the Scottish Medieval philosopher John Duns Scotus, a reference to his political subtlety). From 2006 to 2008, he was the Minister of the Interior in Romano Prodi’s government. He has served on the Constitutional Court of Italy since September 2013, to which he was appointed by President Giorgio Napolitano. He has served as Vice President of the Court since September 2020.
- Daria de Pretis, Italy
Constitutional Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy (since 11 November 2014) and a Law Professor. Previously she served as Rector of the University of Trento. S was a Professor of Administrative, Comparative and Public law at the University of Trento, where she also served as Rector before being appointed to the Constitutional Court by the Italian President, Giorgio Napolitano, on 18 October 2014. At the university she also taught courses in EU Law and Law and Gender and was employed by the university for over twenty years. She was sworn in on 11 November 2014.
- Nicolò Zanon, Italy
Italian judge and law professor. He has been Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy since 11 November 2014. Previously he was a law professor at the University of Milan. Zanon was born in Turin. He was a professor of Constitutional law at the University of Milan before being appointed to the Constitutional Court by the Italian President, Giorgio Napolitano, on 18 October 2014. Zanon had also worked at the University of Turin as a comparative constitutional law researcher and as an assistant to Valerio Onida, a judge on the Constitutional Court of Italy. Zanon was sworn in on 11 November 2014.
- Silvana Sciarra, Italy
She has been a judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy since 11 November 2014. Sciarra was born in Trani. She taught European Labour and Social Law at the European University Institute between 1994 and 2003. She was a professor of labour law at the University of Florence and the University of Siena before being appointed to the Constitutional Court by the Italian Parliament on 6 November 2014. In the parliamentary election she obtained 630 out of a necessary 570 votes. She was sworn in on 11 November 2014.
- Franco Modugno, Italy
Italian judge and former law professor at the Sapienza University of Rome. He has been Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy since 21 December 2015. On 25 November, the Italian Parliament failed to elect three candidates to the Constitutional Court; Modugno obtained 140 votes, primarily coming from the Five Star Movement. Modugno was elected to the Constitutional Court by the Parliament on 16 December 2015, and he was sworn in five days later.
- Augusto Antonio Barbera, Italy
Italian judge and former constitutional law professor at the University of Bologna. In his political career he was member of the Chamber of Deputies between 1976 and 1994 for the Italian Communist Party and later the Democratic Party of the Left. In 1993 he served shortly as Minister without portfolio for relations with Parliament in the government of Prime Minister Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. Barbera has been Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy since 21 December 2015.
- Giulio Prosperetti, Italy
Italian judge and labour law professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He has been Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy since 21 December 2015.
- Giovanni Amoroso, Italy
Italian judge. He has been Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy since 13 November 2017. He was elected to the Constitutional Court by the Court of Cassation on 26 October 2017. He won 210 votes, with his competitor Renato Rordorf obtaining 11. At the time of his election Amoroso served as president of the labour section of the Court of Cassation. He was sworn in on 13 November 2017. Amaroso succeeded Alessandro Criscuolo,
- Francesco Viganò, Italy
Italian judge and criminal law professor at the Bocconi University in Milan. He was appointed Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy by president Sergio Mattarella, and sworn in on 8 March 2018.
- Luca Antonini, Italy
Italian lawyer, jurist, and constitutional law professor at the University of Padua. He is Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy since 26 July 2018.
- Stefano Petitti, Italy
Italian judge. He has been Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy since 10 December 2019. He was elected to the Constitutional Court by the Court of Cassation on 28 November 2019, having won the election against advocate general Luigi Salvato. At the time of his election Petitti served as president of the second civil section of the Court of Cassation. He succeeded Giorgio Lattanzi as judge on the Constitutional Court.
- Angelo Buscema, Italy
Angelo Buscema is an Italian magistrate, lawyer and academic. He was the president of the Court of Auditors from 2018 to 2020 and is judge of the Constitutional Court since 15 September 2020.
- Emanuela Navarretta, Italy
She is an Italian jurist and academic, appointed Judge of the Constitutional Court on 9 September 2020 by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella.
- Maria Rosaria San Giorgio, Italy
She is an Italian magistrate, elected judge of the Constitutional Court on 16 December 2020 by the Supreme Court of Cassation, of which she was Section President at the First and Second Civil Section and Director of the Office of the Massimario and of the Roll.
Federal Constitution Court of Germany
First Senate:
- Prof. Dr. Stephan Harbarth, Germany
Honorary professor at the Faculty of Law of Ruprecht Karl University (Heidelberg), since 2018. Appointed in 2018 as Vice-President of the Federal Constitutional Court and presiding Justice of the First Senate. Appointed President of the Federal Constitutional Court in June 2020.
https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/EN/Richter/Erster-Senat/Praesident-Prof-Dr-Harbarth/praesident-prof-dr-harbarth_node.html
- Prof. Dr. Andreas L. Paulus, Germany
Since 2006 Professor at Georg August University (Göttingen), Chair in Public Law with a focus on international law. He is a Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court since March 2010. In 2018 he also became the President of the German Section of the International Commission of Jurists.
https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/EN/Richter/Erster-Senat/BVR-Prof-Dr-Paulus/bvr-prof-dr-paulus_node.html
- Prof. Dr. Susanne Baer, Germany
Former Dean of Academic Affairs at the Faculty of Law, Humboldt University (Berlin). She was also the Founding Director of the Law & Society Institute Berlin (LSI) at Humboldt University. She has been a justice of the Federal Constitutional Court since February 2011.
https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/EN/Richter/Erster-Senat/BVRin-Prof-Dr-Baer/bvrin-prof-dr-baer_node.html
- Prof. Dr. Gabriele Britz, Germany
Professor of Public Law and European Law, Justus Liebig University (Gießen) since 2001. Member of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court since February 2011.
https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/EN/Richter/Erster-Senat/BVRin-Prof-Dr-Britz/bvrin-prof-dr-britz_node.html
- Dr. Yvonne Ott, Germany
Seconded to the Federal Constitutional Court as a judicial clerk (Cabinet of Federal Constitutional Court Justice Dr. Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt) between 2000-2002. Presiding judge at the Frankfurt am Main Regional Court between 2004-2010, judge at the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) between 2010-2016. Since November 2016, she is a justice at the Federal Constitutional Court.
https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/EN/Richter/Erster-Senat/BVRin-Dr-Ott/bvrin-dr-ott_node.html
- Dr. Josef Christ, Germany
Seconded to the Federal Constitutional Court as a judicial clerk (Cabinet of Federal Constitutional Court Justice Prof. Dr. Evelyn Haas) during 1999-2000 and 2001-2002. Judge of the Ninth Division deciding on appeals on points of law (9. Revisionssenat) of the Federal Administrative Court (Bundesverwaltungsgericht), with jurisdiction over the law of public streets and roads, land development law, the law of municipal charges and land consolidation law (2008-2014). Vice-President of the Federal Administrative Court and presiding judge of the Eighth Division deciding on appeals on points of law (8. Revisionssenat), with jurisdiction over the law concerning the settlement of property issues, economic administrative law and financial services law (2014-2017). Since December 2017, he is a justice of the Federal Constitutional Court.
https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/EN/Richter/Erster-Senat/BVR-Dr-Christ/bvr-dr-christ_node.html
- Prof. Dr. Henning Radtke, Germany
Professor of Criminal Law, Law of Criminal Procedure Dean of the Faculty of Law at several universities. In 2012 he was appointed judge in the First Criminal Division (1. Strafsenat) at the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof). Since July 2018, he is a justice of the Federal Constitutional Court.
https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/EN/Richter/Erster-Senat/BVR-Prof-Dr-Radtke/bvr-prof-dr-radtke_node.html
- Prof. Dr. Ines Härtel, Germany
Professor at Ruhr University Bochum, Chair in Public Law, Administrative, European, Agricultural and Environmental Law and Director of the Institute for Mining and Energy Law, Ruhr University Bochum from 2009 to 2014. Founder of the Research Center for Digital Law at the European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder) in 2019. Director of the School of German Law, European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder) and Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań) from 2014-2019. Since July 2020, she is a justice of the Federal Constitutional Court.
https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/EN/Richter/Erster-Senat/BVRin-Prof-Dr-H%C3%A4rtel/bvrin-prof-dr-h%C3%A4rtel_node.html
Second Senate:
- Prof. Dr. Doris König, Germany
Since 2008, she is the German Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague. In June 2014, she became a justice of the Federal Constitutional Court and in June 2020 she was appointed Vice-President of the Federal Constitutional Court and presiding Justice of the Second Senate.
https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/EN/Richter/Zweiter-Senat/BVRin-Prof-Dr-Koenig/vizepr%C3%A4sidentin-prof-dr-koenig_node.html
- Prof. Dr. Peter M. Huber, Germany
Professor at Friedrich Schiller University (Jena), Chair in Constitutional and Administrative Law, European Law, Public Commercial Law and Public Environmental Law in 1992. Between 1995-1998 he was a member of the German Bundestag’s study commission for “Overcoming the Consequences of the SED Dictatorship in the Process of German Reunification”. Between 2003 and 2004 he was an expert member of the Commission on the Reform of the Federal System of Government (Federalism Commission) established by the Bundestag and the Bundesrat. From 2004 to 2006 he was a member of the Board of the Association of German University Instructors of Constitutional Law (Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer – VdSTRL). From 2007-2009 he was member of the Constitutional Court (Staatsgerichtshof) of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. He was the Minister of Interior of the Free State of Thuringia between 2009-2010. In November 2010 he became a justice of the Federal Constitutional Court.
https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/EN/Richter/Zweiter-Senat/BVR-Prof-Dr-Huber/bvr-prof-dr-huber_node.html
- Monika Hermanns, Germany
Member of the Saarland Constitutional Court (Verfassungsgerichtshof) from 1999-2004. Judge at the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) from 2004-2010. Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court since November 2010. Substitute member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) since December 2015.
https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/EN/Richter/Zweiter-Senat/BVRin-Hermanns/bvrin-hermanns_node.html
- Peter Müller, Germany
Judge at the Saarbrücken Regional Court (Landgericht) from 1987 to 1990:
– Lecturer at the Saar Academy of Business Administration and Public Management (Verwaltungs- und Wirtschaftsakademie Saar)
– Teaching assingment at Saarland University (Saarbrücken)
– Member of the board of examiners for the state examination in law in Saarland
Member of the Landtag (state parliament) of the Saarland (1990-2011) and Minister-President of Saarland (1999-2011). Since December 2011 justice of the Federal Constitutional Court.
https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/EN/Richter/Zweiter-Senat/BVR-Mueller/bvr-mueller_node.html
- Dr. Sibylle Kessal-Wulf, Germany
Appointed judge at the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) in 2001. Appointed presiding judge at the Federal Court of Justice in 2011. Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court since December 2011.
https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/EN/Richter/Zweiter-Senat/BVRin-Dr-Kessal-Wulf/bvrin-dr-kessal-wulf_node.html
- Dr. Ulrich Maidowski, Germany
Judge at the Higher Administrative Court (Oberverwaltungsgericht) for the Land North Rhine-Westphalia in Münster (1999-2009). Seconded to the Hamm Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht), division with jurisdiction over building-land matters (2004-2009). Judge at the Federal Administrative Court (2009-2014). Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court since July 2014.
https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/EN/Richter/Zweiter-Senat/BVR-Dr-Maidowski/bvr-dr-maidowski_node.html
- Prof. Dr. Christine Langenfeld, Germany
Research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg (1991-1997). Since 2000 she has been a Professor of Public Law and (since 2006) Director of the Institute of Public Law’s Department for Constitutional and Administrative Law as it Relates to Culture, Georg August University (Göttingen). Since March 2012 she is the Director of the Institute of Public Law’s Department of Constitutional Law, Georg August University (Göttingen). Since July 2016, she is a Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court.
https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/EN/Richter/Zweiter-Senat/BVRin-Prof-Dr-Langenfeld/bvrin-prof-dr-langenfeld_node.html
- Prof. Dr. Astrid Wallrabenstein, Germany
Professor in Public Law. From 2011 to 2020 she was the Managing Director of the Goethe University’s Institute for European Health Policy and Social Law (“ineges”). From 2012-2020 she was a member of the Federal Government’s Social Advisory Council. From 2013-2020 she became a Judge at the Darmstadt Higher Social Court (Landessozialgericht). In the period of 2015 to 2020, Development and coordination of the Goethe Uni Law Clinic on Migration and Participation. Since June 2020 she is a justice of the Federal Constitutional Court.
https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/EN/Richter/Zweiter-Senat/BVRin-Prof-Dr-Wallrabenstein/bvrin-prof-dr-wallrabenstein_node.html
Constitutional Court of Slovenia
- Prof. Dr. Raijko Knez, Slovenia
He has been professor of European Union law at the University of Maribor since 2011. Since 1993 he has primarily worked at the Faculty of Law of the University of Maribor. In addition to European Union law, his research has focused on civil law, environmental law, and media law. Between 2015 and 2017 he was also employed as a senior judicial advisor at the administrative department of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Slovenia, primarily working in the field of European Union law. This has enabled him to combine theory and practice and thus to integrate case law, judicial decision-making skills, and the procedures, organisation and functioning of the courts into the teaching process at the Faculty of Law of the University of Maribor. He is the author of numerous scientific and scholarly articles, monographs, and commentaries on law. His works have been cited in opinions of the Advocate Generals of the Court of Justice of the European Union and in decisions of the Supreme Court and Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia. He was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague until 2017. Due to his term as a Constitutional Court judge, he no longer holds the office of an arbitrator at the Austrian VIAC (Vienna International Arbitral Centre), and for the same reason he is no longer a member of the Presidency of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Chamber of Commerce of Slovenia, the National Commission for Biomedically Assisted Procreation, or the Expert Council of the Republic of Slovenia for Nature Conservation. He was also a member of the High Council of the European University Institute in Florence and a member of the Council for Environmental Protection of the Republic of Slovenia. Between 2007 and 2011, he served as the Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Maribor. He commenced duties as judge of the Constitutional Court on 25 April 2017 and assumed the office of President of the Constitutional Court on 19 December 2018.
Tel: (+386 (1) 477 64 15)
- Prof. Dr Matej Accetto, Slovenia
During his doctoral studies he worked at the Institute for Comparative Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana as a young researcher, and from 2008 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana as an assistant professor of EU law, and from 2013 as an associate professor of EU law. He has participated in numerous national and international research projects that focused on different issues of fundamental rights, (constitutional) adjudication, and citizenship. He is the author of several books and numerous scientific legal papers (in Slovene, English, and Portuguese) as well as numerous editorials and columns in legal newspapers and on websites. He commenced duties as judge of the Constitutional Court on 27 March 2017 and assumed the office of Vice President of the Constitutional Court of Slovenia on 28 September 2019.
Tel: (+386 (1) 477 64 53)
- Dr Dunja Jadek Pensa, Slovenia
In 2004, she became a senior higher court judge. During her time as a judge of the Higher Court in Ljubljana, she was awarded a scholarship by the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law in Munich; she presided over the specialised panel for commercial disputes concerning intellectual property, and in the period from 2006 to 2008 she was the president and a member of the personnel council of the Higher Court in Ljubljana. In 2008, she became a Supreme Court judge. At the Supreme Court of the Republic of Slovenia she was on the panels considering commercial and civil cases, as well as the panel deciding appeals against decisions of the Slovenian Intellectual Property Office. She has published numerous works, particularly in the field of intellectual property law, the law of damages, and insurance law. She has lectured in the undergraduate and graduate study programmes of the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana and at various professional courses and education programmes for judges in Slovenia and abroad. She is a member of the state legal examination commission for commercial law. She commenced duties as judge of the Constitutional Court on 15 July 2011.
Tel: (+386 (1) 477 64 52)
- Assist. Prof. Dr Špelca Mežnar, Slovenia
Between 1999 and 2008, she worked at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana as a young researcher, and subsequently as a teaching assistant and assistant professor lecturing on private international law, commercial law, intellectual property law, and law of obligations. In the years 2012–2015, she led a group of researchers from Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia in the FP7 project “Tenancy Law and Housing Policy in Multi-Level Europe”. She is the author of several expert legal studies (Analysis of the Key Decisions of Slovene Courts concerning the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights, Pilot Field Study on the Functioning of the National Judicial Systems for the Application of Competition Law Rules, Study on Conveyancing Services Regulations in Europe). Starting in 2007, she worked as an attorney, first for the Čeferin law firm (commercial law department), and then in 2015 for the Vrtačnik law firm. She specialises in the fields of contract, tort, and copyright law as well as the law of consumer protection and public procurement. She is an arbitrator at the Slovene Chamber of Commerce and Industry. As a teacher and researcher at institutions of higher education, she has been working at the International School for Social and Business Studies in Celje since 2008. She is the author of numerous articles (her bibliography comprises over 100 entries in COBISS) and a regular lecturer at workshops for judges, attorneys, and other legal professionals. She commenced duties as judge of the Constitutional Court on 31 October 2016.
Tel: (+386 (1) 477 64 33)
- Marko Šorli, Slovenia
Following a period as judge at Kranj Municipal Court from 1977 to 1981, he was judge at Ljubljana Higher Court until 1996, when he was appointed Supreme Court judge. Since 1999, he was in charge of the Department for International Judicial Cooperation of the same court and in 2000 he was appointed head of the Criminal Law Department and Vice President of the Supreme Court (a position he held until 2010). He is a member of the state legal examination commission for criminal law. In 1994, he was appointed to the Judicial Council and for the last two thirds of his term of office first held the position of Vice President and then President of the Council. In addition to his work on criminal law, throughout his entire judicial career Marko Šorli has actively participated in solving issues regarding the organisation and democratisation of the judiciary. In 2002, he became a member of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice – CEPEJ. His written work includes more than 40 articles in professional publications and reviews and he is also a co-author of the Komentar Ustave Republike Slovenije [Commentary on the Constitution of the Republic of Slovenia], Fakulteta za državne in evropske študije. He commenced duties as judge of the Constitutional Court on 20 November 2016.
Tel: (+386 (1) 477 64 37)
- Acad. Prof. Dr Marijan Pavčnik, Slovenia
Since May 1973 he has worked at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana, first as a teaching assistant, starting in 1982 as an assistant professor, and in 1987 as an associate professor. Since 1993 he has been a professor of Philosophy and Theory of Law and State (for the subjects Introduction to Jurisprudence, Philosophy of Law with the Methodology of Legal Argumentation, Theory of Law, and Theory of State). He retired on 31 December 2016. In 1997 he wrote Teorija prava [Theory of Law], the first comprehensive work in the field of theory of law in the Slovene language. In 2015 the 5th revised and supplemented edition of this book was issued. He is particularly interested in the interpretation of the law and the arguments underlying legal decision-making. On several occasions, Dr Pavčnik enhanced his expertise by means of foreign study visits. He was a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for twenty three months; he spent most of this time at the Institute of Philosophy of Law and Legal Informatics at the University of Munich and the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Bielefeld. He commenced duties as judge of the Constitutional Court on 27 March 2017.
Tel: (+386 (1) 477 64 62)
- Prof. Dr. Dr. Klemen Jaklič, Slovenia
He worked under the mentorship of some leading constitutional and human rights law authorities in the world – Frank I. Michelman, Laurence H. Tribe, and Henry J. Steiner – and was also selected to a narrow circle of doctoral scholars led by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen. Concurrently, he also studied constitutional law under Paul P. Craig at Oxford University. This parallel research on both continents, and under the supervision of the field’s leading authorities, provided him with authentic insight into the comparative dimensions of European and US constitutional law. After completing his first doctorate at Oxford in 2008 (D.Phil. in European constitutional law), he began teaching at Harvard. During the subsequent ten years he taught for over twenty courses from his field across five different departments at Harvard University, and received teaching excellence awards from each of them. In 2014 Dr. Dr. Jaklič (Oxford UK, Harvard USA) published his acclaimed Constitutional Pluralism in the EU, the first and only monograph by a Slovene legal scholar ever published by Oxford University Press. He has been a member of numerous scholarly associations and a peer reviewer for leading international publishers and law journals, such as Hart Publishing (Oxford), ICON (Journal of International Constitutional Law), Ratio Juris, and the Harvard International Law Journal, of which he was also co-editor. He was appointed a full member of the European Commission for Democracy Through Law (the Venice Commission) for the 2008–12 term, where he delivered judgments on the compatibility of actions of European countries with the common European standards in the field of constitutional law and human rights. Dr. Dr. Jaklič (Oxford UK, Harvard USA) commenced duties as judge of the Constitutional Court on 27 March 2017.
Tel: (+386 (1) 477 64 46)
- Prof. Dr Katja Šugman Stubbs, Slovenia
Since 1992 she has been permanently employed at the Faculty of Law, Ljubljana, attaining the rank of full Professor of Criminal Law (2011) and Associate Professor of Criminology (2015). She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Faculty’s Institute of Criminology. Dr Šugman Stubbs has been actively involved in the field of human rights protection. She was elected Slovene representative on the Council of Europe’s European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (2015–2016), and acted as senior researcher for the Slovene rapporteur (i.e. the Institute of Criminology, Ljubljana) on human rights issues within the research network of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) (2014–2018). She is an active member and the Slovene contact person of the European Criminal Law Academic Network (ECLAN), within the framework of which she has prepared a number of research reports for the European Commission. Together with her colleague Dr Katja Filipčič, she co-authored the Second Report of the Republic of Slovenia on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (UN). She has acted as advisor to a number of ministers (of justice, internal affairs, and external affairs) in the field of human rights and EU criminal law. She began her work as judge of the Constitutional Court on 19 December 2018.
Tel: (+386 (1) 477 64 38)
- Dr Rok Čeferin, Slovenia
Since 2015 he has taught the subject Journalism, Ethics, and Professionalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana. In 2018, he became Assistant Professor in the field of journalism studies and Research Fellow at the same faculty. In 2012, the Bar Association of Slovenia awarded him the title “specialist in civil and media law”. In 2018, he co-authored a commentary on the Criminal Code under the auspices of the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana. In 2019, the Minister of Culture appointed him to the expert commission on drafting amendments of the Media Act. He commenced duties as judge of the Constitutional Court on 28 September 2019.
Tel: (+386 (1) 477 64 51)
- Dr Sebastian Nerad, Slovenia
From December 2000 to July 2008 he was a Lecturer at the Department of Constitutional Law of the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana. During this period his primary field of research was constitutional courts. In 2007, he worked for six months as a lawyer-linguist at the European Parliament in Brussels. In August 2008, he was employed as an advisor to the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia. In this position he mainly worked in the areas of state and administrative law. In 2011, he went on a one-month study visit to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. He has published several articles on constitutional law, particularly on the functioning of the Constitutional Court. He has been a member of the Constitutional Law Association of Slovenia since 2001. He was appointed Secretary-General of the Constitutional Court on 3 October 2012.
- Mag Tjaša Šorli, Slovenia
Deputy Secretary General of the Constitutional Court of Slovenia
Constitutional Court of Spain
- Juan José González Rivas, Spain
Spanish jurist and magistrate. He is the President of the Spanish Constitutional Court since 22 March 2017, of which he has been a member since 2012.
https://www.tribunalconstitucional.es/en/tribunal/Composicion-Organizacion/composicion/Paginas/magistrados-detalle.aspx?ListItemId=70
- Encarnación Roca Trías, Spain
Judge at the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court and judge, since 2012, of the Constitutional Court. From the 22 of March of 2017 is the vice president of the Constitutional Court.
https://www.tribunalconstitucional.es/en/tribunal/Composicion-Organizacion/composicion/Paginas/magistrados-detalle.aspx?ListItemId=67
- Andrés Ollero Tassara, Spain
A philosopher and jurist, Professor of Philosophy of the Law of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Since 2012 he has been a magistrate of the Constitutional Court of Spain.
https://www.tribunalconstitucional.es/en/tribunal/Composicion-Organizacion/composicion/Paginas/magistrados-detalle.aspx?ListItemId=68
- Santiago Martínez-Vares García, Spain
Spanish jurist who was a magistrate of the Supreme Court and, since 2013, a magistrate of the Constitutional Court of Spain
https://www.tribunalconstitucional.es/en/tribunal/Composicion-Organizacion/composicion/Paginas/magistrados-detalle.aspx?ListItemId=71
- Juan Antonio Xiol Ríos, Spain
A jurist specialist in litigation and civil, who has held significant positions in the judiciary. In June 2013, the plenary session of the General Council of the Judiciary appointed Xiol Ríos and Santiago Martínez-Vares , magistrates of the Constitutional Court.
https://www.tribunalconstitucional.es/en/tribunal/Composicion-Organizacion/composicion/Paginas/magistrados-detalle.aspx?ListItemId=72
- Pedro José González-Trevijano Sánchez, Spain
A jurist, professor of Constitutional Law and former rector of the Rey Juan Carlos University, as well as a Magistrate of the Constitutional Court since 2013. He has published on subjects related to the theory of the State, constitutional law, Spanish constitutional history and comparative law.
https://www.tribunalconstitucional.es/en/tribunal/Composicion-Organizacion/composicion/Paginas/magistrados-detalle.aspx?ListItemId=73
- Antonio Narváez Rodríguez, Spain
A jurist who was deputy prosecutor of the Prosecutor of the Tribunal Supremo and since 2014 he is judge of the Constitutional Court. As a teacher he was coordinating professor of the Center for Legal Studies in the area of Procedural and Constitutional Law in the Initial Training Course for Prosecutors (1998-2010). He was also coordinator of the Ethics and Professional Deontology Module of the same course (2012-13) and speaker of the Judicial School in the initial training courses for judges (2002-2013).
https://www.tribunalconstitucional.es/en/tribunal/Composicion-Organizacion/composicion/Paginas/magistrados-detalle.aspx?ListItemId=64
- Alfredo Montoya Melgar, Spain
Professor of Labor Law. Professor and Director of the Higher Course on Labor Law Practice at the School of Legal Practice (UCM). Emeritus Professor of the San Pablo CEU and Complutense Universities and the Institute of Stock Market Studies. Former President and Honorary President of the Ibero-American Academy of Labor and Social Security Law. Former Councilor of the Economic and Social Council, of whose Labor Relations Commission he was President. Director of the Spanish Journal of Labor Law and Coordinator of the Journal of the Ministry of Employment and Social Security (Labor Law series). Magistrate of the Constitutional Court since 2017.
https://www.tribunalconstitucional.es/en/tribunal/Composicion-Organizacion/composicion/Paginas/magistrados-detalle.aspx?ListItemId=85
- Ricardo Enríquez Sancho, Spain
A jurist and a magistrate of the Supreme Court since 1991, and a magistrate of the Constitutional Court of Spain since 2014.
https://www.tribunalconstitucional.es/en/tribunal/Composicion-Organizacion/composicion/Paginas/magistrados-detalle.aspx?ListItemId=74
- Cándido Conde-Pumpido Tourón, Spain
He was the Attorney General of Spain. He has been an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Spain since 1995. Since March 2017 he is Magistrate of the Constitutional Court.
https://www.tribunalconstitucional.es/en/tribunal/Composicion-Organizacion/composicion/Paginas/magistrados-detalle.aspx?ListItemId=86
- María Luisa Balaguer Callejón, Spain
A jurist and writer, professor of Constitutional Law, professor of Law and Journalism at the University of Malaga and an expert on equality. She has held various important positions in Andalusia . Since March 2017 she has been a magistrate of the Constitutional Court of Spain.
https://www.tribunalconstitucional.es/en/tribunal/Composicion-Organizacion/composicion/Paginas/magistrados-detalle.aspx?ListItemId=84
Supreme Court of Norway
- Toril Marie Øie, Norway
Toril Marie Øie was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway in March 2016. She is the 20th Chief Justice in the 200-year history of the Supreme Court and the first woman to hold this office. From 1986 to 2004, she was employed at the Legislation Department of the Ministry of Justice and the Police – from 1990 as a legal adviser and from 2000 as Deputy Director General and Head of the Unit for Criminal Law and Procedure. From 1988-1990, Toril Marie Øie took leave of absence from the Legislation Department to serve as a deputy judge and later an acting judge and acting chief judge at Strømmen District Court. In the years between 1994 and 2002, in addition to her post at the Legislative Department, she was also a senior lecturer at the Institute of Public Law, University of Oslo giving lectures on criminal law, criminal procedure and civil procedure. Appointed Supreme Court Justice in August 2004. Chief Justice Øie has been a member of the local Norwegian board of the Nordic Conferences of Lawyers from 2008 to 2017. She has previously also been a subject editor of Norsk lovkommentar (Norwegian Law Comments) from 2011 to 2015 and has held various public offices. She has written two textbooks on criminal law, is co-author of commentaries on the Dispute Act, is co-editor of the Supreme Court’s bicentenary publication and commemorative volume to former Chief Justice Tore Schei, and has also written a number of articles, mainly on criminal law and procedure. On 9 October 2018, Toril Marie Øie was appointed Commander with Star of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.
https://www.domstol.no/en/enkelt-domstol/supremecourt/about/justices/supreme-court-justice-toril-marie-oie/
- Hilde Indreberg, Norway
Supreme Court Justice since 1 April 2007. Senior executive officer at the Ministry of Foreign Aid/NORAD, Legal Department 1988—1989. Senior executive officer/legal adviser at the Legislation Department of the Ministry of Justice, 1989—1994. Deputy judge at Nedre Romerike District Court, 1994—1995. Legal adviser at the Legislation Department of the Ministry of Justice, 1995—2000. Assistant Director General at the Legislation Department of the Ministry of Justice, 2000—2007.
https://www.domstol.no/en/enkelt-domstol/supremecourt/about/justices/supreme-court-justice-hilde-indreberg/
- Wilhelm Matheson, Norway
Supreme Court Justice since 1 November 2009. Law degree in 1982 Scholarship for scientific research from Otto Løvenskiold’s Legacy (1983) and Henrik Steffen’s Study Scholarship (1983). Research assistant at the Institute of Criminology and Criminal. Law, University of Oslo, 1979—1980. Visiting researcher, Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg, Germany, 1984—85. Member of the Ministry of Justice’s Working Committee on Standardized Compensation for Children, 1986, Norwegian Official Reports 1987. Deputy judge at Lier, Røyken and Hurum District Court, 1987—1988. Senior executive officer/legal adviser at the Ministry of Justice, Legislation Department, 1983—1988. Associate at Mellbye, Schjoldager, Sejersted & Tenden, 1989. Associate and partner at Wiersholm, 1990—2009
https://www.domstol.no/en/enkelt-domstol/supremecourt/about/justices/supreme-court-justice-wilhelm-matheson/
- Kristin Normann, Norway
Research assistant at the University of Oslo, 1979. Associate at Bugge, Arentz-Hansen & Rasmussen, 1983—1984. Acting judge at Borgarting Court of Appeal, autumn 2003. Assistant professor, doctoral research fellow, associate professor and professor, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, 1985—2007 (leave of absence from 2006). Partner at Selmer, 2006—2010. Supreme Court Justice since 9 August 2010.
https://www.domstol.no/en/enkelt-domstol/supremecourt/about/justices/justice-kristin-normann/
- Henrik Bull, Norway
Military language course in Russian, the Norwegian Defence School of Intelligence and Security, 1976—1977. Intermediate degree in Russian 1978. Senior executive officer at the Ministry of Justice, Legislation Department, 1985—1987. Deputy judge at Nedre Romerike District Court, 1987—1988 .Legal adviser at the Legislation Department of the Ministry of Justice,1988—1996. Doctoral research fellow at the Centre for European Law, University of Oslo, 1996—2002. Assistant professor and director, Centre for European Law, University of Oslo, 2002—2005. Judge of the EFTA Court 2006—2010. Supreme Court justice since 17 January 2011
https://www.domstol.no/en/enkelt-domstol/supremecourt/about/justices/supreme-court-justice-henrik-bull/
- Per Erik Bergsjø, Norway
Admitted before the Supreme Court in 2000.
Research assistant, Nordic Institute of Maritime Law, University of Oslo, 1983-84. Execute officer/senior executive officer/legal adviser at the Legislation Department of the Ministry of Justice, 1986—89. Deputy judge at Lyngen/Nord-Troms District Court, 1989—90. Judge at Nord-Troms District Court, 1990—93. Associate at Advokatfirma Vogt & Co, 1993—95. Partner at Advokatfirma Vogt & Co DA/Vogt & Wiig AS, 1995—2012. Supreme Court Justice since 1 March 2012.
https://www.domstol.no/en/enkelt-domstol/supremecourt/about/justices/per-erik-bergsjo/
- Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen, Norway
Senior executive officer at the Legislation Department of the Ministry of Justice, 1986—1987.
Deputy judge at Larvik District Court, 1987—1988. Advocate at the Attorney General’s Office, 1989—2003. Admitted before the Supreme Court in 1993. Acting judge at Hålogaland Court of Appeal, 1994. Associate and partner at the law firm Kluge, 2003—2007. Member of the Norwegian Bar Association’s Disciplinary Board, 2005—2007. Judge at Oslo District Court, 2007—2014. Member of the Parliament’s Control Board on Intelligence, Surveillance and Security Services (EOS-utvalget), 2009. Supreme Court Justice since 29 September 2014.
https://www.domstol.no/en/enkelt-domstol/supremecourt/about/justices/supreme-court-justice-wenche-elizabeth-arntzen/
- Espen Bergh, Norway
Senior executive officer at the Ministry of Defence, legal section, 1988—1989. Senior executive officer/legl adviser at the Legislation Department of the Ministry of Justice, 1989—1999. Deputy judge and acting judge Ytre Follo District Court, 1992—1994. Associate at the law firm Wiersholm, 1999—2005. Judge at Borgarting Court of Appeal, 2005—2010. Presiding judge at Borgarting Court of Appeal, 2010—2016. Supreme Court Justice since 15 August 2016.
https://www.domstol.no/en/enkelt-domstol/supremecourt/about/justices/espen-bergh/
- Borgar Høgetveit Berg, Norway
Research assistant at the Institute of Private Law, University of Oslo, 1995—1996. Deputy advocate/advocate at the Office of the Attorney General, 1998—2005. Acting judge at Hålogaland Court of Appeal, 2003—2004. Associate and partner at Thommessen, 2005—2017. Supreme Court Justice since 1 May 2017.
https://www.domstol.no/en/enkelt-domstol/supremecourt/about/justices/supreme-court-justice-borgar-hogetveit-berg/
- Kine Elisabeth Steinsvik, Norway
Senior executive officer at the Legislation Department of the Ministry of Justice, 2002—2003. Advocate at the Office of the Attorney General, 2003—2014. Acting judge at Eidsivating Court of Appeal 2006—2007. Specially appointed mediator at the National Mediator’s Office (Assisting National Mediator from 2018), 2013. Judge at Borgarting Court of Appeal, 2014—2019. Supreme Court Justice since 5 August 2019
https://www.domstol.no/en/enkelt-domstol/supremecourt/about/justices/kine-elisabeth-steinsvik/
- Jens Edvin A. Skoghøy, Norway
Deputy judge, Tromsø District Court, 1980—1981. Secretary to the Criminal Law Commission, 1981. Research fellow, Nordic Institute of Maritime Law, University of Oslo, 1982. Advocate in private practice, 1983—1987. Admitted before the Supreme Court, 1988. Education research fellow, University of Tromsø, 1988—1990. Professor of jurisprudence, University of Tromsø, 1990—1998. Supreme Court Justice, 1998—2017. Professor of jurisprudence, Universitetet i Tromsø 2017—2020. Supreme Court Justice from 12 October 2020.
https://www.domstol.no/en/enkelt-domstol/supremecourt/about/justices/jens-edvin-a.-skoghoy/
- Bergljot Webster, Norway
Scholarship from the British Council for studies and work experience in Scotland, 1994. Admitted before the Supreme Court, 1999. Research assistant at the University of Oslo, 1988. Doctoral research fellow, Norwegian Research Council, 1990. Deputy advocate at the Office of the Attorney General, 1993—1995. Advocate at the Office of the Attorney General, 1995—2000. Lawyer at Nordisk Defence Club, 2000—2004. Partner at Sørlie Wilhelmsen, 2004—2005. Partner at Hjort, 2006—2009. Supreme Court Justice since 15 August 2009.
https://www.domstol.no/en/enkelt-domstol/supremecourt/about/justices/supreme-court-justice-bergljot-webster/
- Aage Thor Falkanger, Norway
Advocate at the Office of the Attorney General 1991—1992. Deputy judge at Nord-Troms District Court 1992—1994. Research fellow, the Factulty of Law at the University of Tromsø, 1995—1999. Judge at Hålogaland Court of Appeal 1999—2007. Professor, the Factulty of Law at the University of Tromsø, 2007—2010. Visiting fellow Cambridge University, Lauterpacht Centre of International Law, 2007—2008. Acting Supreme Court Justice (periodically) 2007—2009. Parliamentary Ombudsman for Public Administration 2014—2019. Supreme Court Justice since 1 May 2010.
https://www.domstol.no/en/enkelt-domstol/supremecourt/about/justices/aage-thor-falkanger/
- Ragnhild Noer, Norway
Research assistant, Institute of Private Law, University of Oslo, 1982—1983. Senior executive officer at the Legislation Department of the Ministry of Justice, 1985—1987. Deputy judge and acting judge at Lyngen District Court, 1987—1989. Assistant professor, University of Troms, 1989. Program secretary, Norwegian Broadcasting Company, Troms 1990—1991. Advocate at the Office of the Attorney General, 1991—2005. Admitted before the Supreme Court in 1994. Acting judge at the Gulating Court of Appeal, January—March 1994. Secretary to the Commission on Procedure in Child Custody Cases, 1997—1998. Senior legal adviser at the Ministry of Environment, 2001—2002. Judge at Borgarting Court of Appeal, 2005—2010. Supreme Court Justice since 1 October 2010.
https://www.domstol.no/en/enkelt-domstol/supremecourt/about/justices/supreme-court-justice-ragnhild-noer/
- Knut H. Kallerud, Norway
Masters degree in human rights law, University of Essex, England 1997—1998. Ministry of Justice, Police Department, 1983—1985. Secretariat of the Criminal Law Commission, 1985. Deputy judge at Kragerø District Court, 1985—1986. Associate at Hestenes and Dramer & Co, 1986—1989. Partner at Hestenes and Dramer & Co, 1989—1995. Acting senior public prosecutor at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, 1995—1996. Senior public prosecutor at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, 1996—2008. Liaison Prosecutor at Eurojust, The Hague, Netherlands 2005—2006. Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, 2008—2011.
Supreme Court Justice since 16 July 2011.
https://www.domstol.no/en/enkelt-domstol/supremecourt/about/justices/knut-h-kallerud-supreme-court-justice-/
- Arne Ringnes, Norway
Admitted before the Supreme Court in 2001
Senior executive officer/legal adviser at the Ministry of Justice, Legislation Department, 1983—1985
Secretary to the Copyright Commission, 1983—1986
Deputy judge at Indre Follo District Court, 1985—1986
Associate at Thommessen Karlsrud Heyerdahl & Brunsvig, 1986—1988
Partner at Thommessen, 1989—2014
Supreme Court Justice since 18 August 2014
https://www.domstol.no/en/enkelt-domstol/supremecourt/about/justices/supreme-court-justice-arne-ringnes/
- Ingvald Falch, Norway
LL.M. (Master of Law), University of Cambridge, 1996. Research assistant, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo (UiO), 1986—1988. Deputy advocate and advocate at the Office of the Attorney General, 1989—1999. Admitted before the Supreme Court in 1995. Deputy judge, Vesterålen District Court, 1990—1991. Associate and partner at Schjødt, 1999—2015. Member and chairman of the board at the law firm Schjødt, 2003—2014. Member and chairman of the Norwegian Bar Association’s law committee on EU and competition law, 2007—2014. Supreme Court Justice since 1 September 2015.
https://www.domstol.no/en/enkelt-domstol/supremecourt/about/justices/supreme-court-justice-ingvald-falch/
- Cecilie Østensen Berglund, Norway
Research assistant, Department of Private Law, University of Oslo, 1996—1997. Associate at Thommessen Krefting Greve Lund, 1998—1999. Deputy judge at Follo District Court, 1999—2001. Law clerk/Deputy Head of the Legal Secretariat at the Supreme Court, 2002—2006. Deputy Secretary-General of the Supreme Court, 2007—2009. Acting judge/judge at Borgarting Court of Appeal, 2009—2013. Presiding judge at Borgarting Court of Appeal, 2013—2016. Supreme Court Justice since 1 January 2017.
https://www.domstol.no/en/enkelt-domstol/supremecourt/about/justices/cecilie-ostensen-berglund-hoyesterettsdommer/
- Erik Thyness, Norway
Corporate lawyer, Norsk Hydro ASA, 1988—1989. Deputy judge at Sør-Gudbrandsdal District Court, 1989—1990. Corporate lawyer, Norsk Hydro ASA, 1991—1993. General Counsel, Hafslund Nycomed ASA, 1993—1996. Partner at Wiersholm, 1996—2019. Supreme Court Justice since 1 May 2019.
https://www.domstol.no/en/enkelt-domstol/supremecourt/about/justices/erik-thyness/
- Knut Erik Sæther, Norway
Trainee advocate, The Office of the Municipal Attorney of Oslo, 1995. Deputy judge, Kongsberg District Court, 1999-2002. Executive officer, The Ministry of Justice and Public Security, 1996-2000. Adviser, The Ministry of Justice and Public Security, 2001-2004. Head of Department, The Ministry of Justice and Public Security, 2004-2012. Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions, 2012-2021. Supreme Court Justice from 1 October 2021.
https://www.domstol.no/en/enkelt-domstol/supremecourt/about/justices/knut-erik-sather/
Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic
- JUDr. Dr.h.c. Pavel Rychetský, Czech Republic
He became an assistant professor of Civil Law, Charles Law Faculty, but was forced to leave after the 1968 Soviet occupation. He worked as company lawyer until the end of 1989. In the “Normalization” era, Pavel Rychetský engaged in civic resistance against the totalitarian regime, was a co-founder and one of the first signatories of Charter 77, and published articles in foreign journals and Czech samizdat. He was a member of the Civic Forum and its Council of the Republic. From June, 1990 to July, 1992 he was Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic (CSFR) and Chairman of the Government’s Legislative Council, ensuring both the coordination of the CSFR legislative work and the CSFR Government‘s cooperation with the Federal Assembly and the republics‘ governments. As Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Government he submitted many draft acts to the Federal Assembly (such as, on the Constitutional Court, Referenda, Return of Communist Party Property to the People, the restitution acts, etc.). In 1996–2003 he was a Senator in the Senate, Parliament of the Czech Republic („Senate“), where, until becoming Deputy Prime Minister, he was Chairman of its Constitutional Law Committee and a member of its Mandate and Immunity and Organizational Committees. On 6 August 2003, after the Czech Senate had given its consent to his appointment, he was appointed as a Justice and the President of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic („Constitutional Court“) by President Václav Klaus.
https://www.usoud.cz/en/current-justices-and-court-officials?tx_odjudges%5Bdetail%5D=1&cHash=82ec0a45ad71e0ed907c913ae826ff10
- JUDr. Milada Tomková, Czech Republic
She went to the European Commission on a research fellowship of several months focusing on EU law in the area of social care. In the years 1998 to 2003, she was a member of the Government Legislative Council of the Czech Republic. She drafted amendments to accompanying laws in the area of social care in connection with the preparation of reforms to the administrative justice system.
She was appointed a judge in 2003 when she joined the Supreme Administrative Court, where she held the positions of Presiding Judge at the Social Security Law Division and Presiding Judge at the Disciplinary Division for matters concerning public prosecutors. She was also a member of the Board of the Judicial Academy. She works externally with the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague.
On 3 May 2013, she was appointed Justice at the Constitutional Court and Vice-president of the Court by the President of the Republic.
https://www.usoud.cz/en/current-justices-and-court-officials?tx_odjudges%5Bdetail%5D=65&cHash=0285820e5a7dc62fad01d16d79326b0a
- prof. JUDr. Jaroslav Fenyk, Czech Republic
He has been a member of working committees at the Ministry of Justice for the amendment and recodification of criminal law and a member of the Government Legislative Council of the Czech Republic. He is currently a member of the Commission for Defending Doctor of Science Theses of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and has been and is today a member of editorial boards of professional and academic periodicals. He is a member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Law at Masaryk University in Brno and the Pan-European University of Law, and has been a member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Law at Palacký University in Olomouc. He received the award “Lawyer of the Year” for 2010 in the field of criminal law. In the years 1988 to 2006, he worked as a counsel for the prosecution, later (1993) as public prosecutor, of which as Deputy to the Supreme Public Prosecutor in the years 1999 to 2006. From 2006 to 2013, he worked as a barrister.
On 3 May 2013, he was appointed Justice at the Constitutional Court by President of the Republic Miloš Zeman, and on 7 August 2013 Vice-president of the Constitutional Court.
https://www.usoud.cz/en/current-justices-and-court-officials?tx_odjudges%5Bdetail%5D=67&cHash=98dfb710aaeeacd4f98cc9706e57ab64
- prof. JUDr. Jan Filip, Czech Republic
In the years 1995-2013, Professor Filip headed the Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science at the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University in Brno, which soon gained prominence as a thriving centre of legal studies as well as of education of young professionals. Here he lectured mostly on subjects like constitutional law, constitutional development in the territory of the Czech Republic, lawmaking, constitutional basis of public authority, litigation before the Constitutional Court and voting rights. In the period of 2002-2006, Professor Filip taught Constitutional Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, and Methodology of Creative Work at the University of T. Bata in Zlín. In the late 1980s, he held a secondary employment as an independent researcher at the Institute for State and Law of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and, in 1990, as a specialist at the State Administration Institute. He served on the scientific boards of Masaryk University and Palacky University. He is currently a member of the scientific boards at the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, and the Faculty of Law, Charles University. Aside from his pedagogical activities, Professor Filip often participates in solving practical problems that arise in formulating legal regulations or writing expert opinions for governmental agencies. From 1992 onward, he worked at the Constitutional Court of CFSR as an assistant to judge Vojen Güttler, and at the Constitutional Court of CR as an assistant to constitutional judges Vojtěch Cepl and Jiří Mucha. He also worked in the Legislative Depatment of the Federal Assembly Chancellery (1973, 1987-1989), and subsequently in the Legislative Department of the Senate Chancellery (1997-2007). For a number of years, he was a member of the Government Legislative Council (1998-2006), following the membership in the government commission for public law in the years 1990-1992. In the same period, he worked in the Czech National Council’s commission for the preparation of the constitution. Professor Filip has taken part in a variety of foreign internships and conferences. He published hundreds of scholarly papers in the Czech Republic and abroad, focusing on the theory of constitution, voting rights, theory of legislation, parlamentarism, and especially constitutional jurisprudence. Updated editions of his textbook on constitutional law have appeared regularly since 1993. He co-authored a textbook of political science and a commentary on the constitution of the Czech Republic and its Constitutional Court. Professor Filip also serves on editorial boards of domestic and foreign professional journals. His gained practical experience in constitutional judicature during his felowship stays at the constitutional courts of Yugoslavia (1978), Austria (1992, 1995, 1996), Poland (1993) and Germany (2006).
On May 3, 2013, the President of the Republic appointed Professor Filip as judge to the Constitutional Court.
https://www.usoud.cz/en/current-justices-and-court-officials?tx_odjudges%5Bdetail%5D=66&cHash=e7b796cdda84babac8d2668cb2f86c3e
- prof. JUDr. Vladimír Sládeček, Czech Republic
Almost from the beginning of the existence of the Constitutional Court (from November 1993), he worked part-time as Assistant to a Justice at the Constitutional Court (until the death of the justice in 2002). During 2001, he worked with JUDr. Otakar Motejl on the creation of the Office of the Public Defender of Rights – Ombudsman, and later provided this office with expert consultation, particularly in connection with the Annual Report on the Activities of the Public Defender of Rights – Ombudsman. From 2003, he taught part-time at the Faculty of Law at Palacký University in Olomouc (from 2009, as Head of the Department of Administrative Law and Administrative Science).
He was appointed Justice at the Constitutional Court by the President of the Republic on 4 June 2013.
https://www.usoud.cz/en/current-justices-and-court-officials?tx_odjudges%5Bdetail%5D=79&cHash=6c46a4013ea3747f72578b31cad9ed0f
- JUDr. Ludvík David, Czech Republic
From 1982, he worked as a corporate lawyer. In the middle of 1985, he became a barrister, which he remained until 1993. In June of the same year, he was appointed a judge, and worked as a judge and Presiding Judge at the Municipal Court in Brno until 2000, and then at the Regional Court in Brno until 2002. In the same year, he was assigned to the Supreme Court in Brno where, after a one-year research fellowship, he became a judge in 2003 and Presiding Judge at the Civil Law and Commercial Division. He was also a member of the Records and Grand Panel of the same court. He lectures externally at the faculties of law at Masaryk University in Brno and Palacký University in Olomouc and abroad (the USA). He is the author and co-author of a number of book publications (commentaries on legal codes, overviews of the jurisdiction) and almost a hundred papers in specialist periodicals on topics in material and procedural civil law, labour law, restitution and legal philosophy. As a member of the Union of Czech Lawyers, he received the Antonín Randa Bronze Medal. He has never been a member of any political party. He was appointed Justice at the Constitutional Court by President Miloš Zeman on 7 August 2013.
https://www.usoud.cz/en/current-justices-and-court-officials?tx_odjudges%5Bdetail%5D=81&cHash=fb45a3f7f9fa0ff8b925c2637a41c17b
- JUDr. Kateřina Šimáčková, Czech Republic
Since 2010, she has been substitute member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (the “Venice Committee”) for the Czech Republic and member of the examination committee for juridical examinations.
Since 1990, in addition to her work as a barrister and judge, she has also lectured at the Department of Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law at Masaryk University in Brno, where she also defended her dissertation on the topic Taxation and the Legal State. Her teaching and publication activity focuses, first and foremost, on the issue of basic rights and freedoms. She teaches courses in constitutional law, human rights and the judiciary, political science, governmental studies, media law and ecclesiastical law, and also runs a clinic in media law and medical law, a course in human rights as applied in practice, a school of human rights and a human rights moot court.
She has published a number of specialised journal and anthology papers and is co-author of several law textbooks and other books (e.g. Communist Law in Czechoslovakia, In dubio pro libertate, and Commentaries on the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Basic Freedoms).
She is a member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague, Ad hoc Judge at the European Court of Human Rights, chair of the Brno group of the Church Law Society and a member of the Society for European and Comparative Law.
She has never been a member of any political party or political movement. She was appointed Justice to the Constitutional Court by President Miloš Zeman on 7 August 2013.
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- JUDr. Radovan Suchánek, Czech Republic
JUDr. Radovan Suchánek, Ph.D. graduated in 1996 from the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague, where he has performed teaching work since 1998 (as a lecturer since the year 2000). He took his doctorate studies at the same faculty, focusing on constitutional law, criminal law, criminology and criminal science. In addition to his teaching activities, he also contributed for many years to the preparation of legal regulations and the drawing up of expert reports for state bodies and local government bodies In the years 2010 to 2013, he was advisor to the Deputy-chair of the Senate. From 1999 to 2004 and again from 2006 to 2013, he was also active as a specialist associate of the group of parliamentary deputies from the Czech Social Democratic Party in the area of the law and legislation. During the period of his expert work for Members of Parliament, he contributed to the drafting of many draft amendments for the repealing of laws or individual provisions of laws submitted to the Constitutional Court by groups of deputies or senators.
He has written several dozen specialist articles published in legal periodicals in the Czech Republic and abroad, co-written university textbooks and co-edited anthologies in the fields of constitutional law and governmental studies. In this field he has devoted attention primarily to issues of parliamentarianism, formation of the law, constitutional judiciary, the protection of basic rights and freedoms, direct democracy, state security and selected issues in Czechoslovak constitutional development (e.g. presidential decrees). He has been a member of the Union of Czech Lawyers since 2000. He was a member of the Green Party from 1992 to 1998 and a member of the Czech Social Democratic Party in the years 1998 to 2013.
He was appointed Justice at the Constitutional Court by President Miloš Zeman on 11 November 2013. He took up this position by swearing his oath on 26 November 2013.
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- JUDr. Ing. Jiří Zemánek, Czech Republic
His extensive work in the international academic field has included lecturing at universities in, for example, Hamburg, Berlin, Regensburg, Warsaw, Madrid and the USA. He has made regular appearances at conferences of the European Constitutional Law Network, Societas Iuris Publici Europaei, the T.M.C. Asser Institute in The Hague and other conferences throughout Europe. He has published numerous essays and acted as joint editor of collective works for the publishers Nomos, Duncker & Humblot, Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag and Eleven International Publishing. He is a founder member of the committee of advisors to the European Constitutional Law Review, and a member of the editorial boards of the journals Jurisprudence and Mezinárodní Vztahy (International Relations) in the Czech Republic. His publication and teaching work has focused primarily on the topic of European constitutional law – issues of democratic legitimacy and responsibility in the EU, European judicial dialogue, comparative study of the interaction between European and national law, and methods of harmonising the law of the member states of the EU.
He was appointed Justice at the Constitutional Court by the President of the Republic on 20 January 2014.
https://www.usoud.cz/en/current-justices-and-court-officials?tx_odjudges%5Bdetail%5D=87&cHash=6c3479faa0053adac766d2805cce062d - doc. JUDr. Vojtěch Šimíček, Czech Republic
In 1992, he graduated from the Masaryk University in Brno, School of Law, where he obtained his Ph. D. later in 1995 and became an associate professor there in 2001. He studied in Regensburg, Bochum and Vienna. In addition, he spent five months as an intern in German Bundestag. He loved it everywhere, however, he never really thought about working abroad. In 1996 – 2003, he worked as a law clerk of a Constitutional Court justice. In 2003, he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court. Apart from being a Presiding Judge at the financial administration collegium, he also served as a president of the seven-member chamber for the electoral matters, matters of local and regional referendum and matters concerning political parties and political movements, and a president of the six-member disciplinary chamber for judges. Since 1992, he also teaches constitutional law and courses related to it at the Masaryk University in Brno, School of Law. He is an author or a co-author of tens of specialized texts and publications published in the Czech Republic and abroad, he edited several collections of papers, and he is a member of certain editorial boards. He is happily married to a beautiful, tolerant, funny and witty wife, and a father to three mostly well-behaved and kind children. Except of customary upbringing of his kids, he spends his free time passionately indulged in (mainly) collective sports. This joy is in no way spoiled by the fact that he is regrettably not good at any of them.
The President of the Czech Republic appointed him a Justice of the Constitutional Court on 12 June 2014.
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- JUDr. Tomáš Lichovník, Czech Republic
In 1991-1992, he served as a judicial candidate at the Brno Regional Court, preparing for his future profession of a judge. In 1992, he was appointed a judge of Žďár nad Sázavou District Court, where he spent twenty years in total. He was a president of this court between 1994 and 2011. His last place of work was the Brno Regional Court, where he served as a vice-president and led its Jihlava branch. Since the beginning, he specializes mainly in civil law including family matters.
In 2005 – 2008, he was a vice-president of the Judicial Union of the Czech Republic and since autumn of 2008 until his appointment as a Constitutional Court Justice, he served as its president. He had lectured students of secondary and higher specialized schools for many years. He also acts as a lecturer for the Judicial Academy and employees of the bodies of social and legal protection of children or children’s homes. In his publication activity for various legal journals and daily press, he addresses system issues of judiciary and practical impact of law on individuals and the society. He is also a co-author of the commentary to civil procedure code.
The President of the Czech Republic appointed him a Justice of the Constitutional Court on 19 June 2014.
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- JUDr. David Uhlíř, Czech Republic
Since 1998 David Uhlíř has been lecturing externally at the Department of Civil law of the Charles University Law Faculty. On regular basis he provides training to trainee attorneys and attorneys-at-law, mainly focusing on the re-enactment of the civil law. Furthermore, he is a member of the civil law examination panel of the Czech Bar Association. He is also a member of l’Union International des Avocats and gives speeches on their annual meetings. David Uhlíř writes in scholarly journals and newspapers on issues revolving around the re-enactment of civil law. He is a co-author of the commentary to the Civil Code published by the Wolters Kluwer. He also critically contributed to the preparation of the new Civil Code, among others he was a member of the Ministry of Justice Commission for the Application of the New Civil Legislation.
In 2009 he was elected a member of Board of the Czech Bar Association and in 2013 a vice-president of the Bar. Apart from his other charitable activities he has been for many years the chair of the Sue Ryder Association, founder of the Domov Sue Ryder in Prague – Michle. David Uhlíř is married and has four children.
On 10 December 2014 David Uhlíř was appointed a constitutional court judge by the President of the Czech Republic.
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- JUDr. Jaromír Jirsa, Czech Republic
In May 1999, he became a civil law judge and the vice-president of Prague 1 District Court. Since August 2007, judge Jirsa served as the vice-president of Prague Municipal Court where he worked on insolvency and securities cases, as well as appellate cases.
Judge Jirsa has been focusing on civil procedural law for a long time. For that reason, he’s been a permanent member of expert committees with the Ministry of Justice for civil procedure; in 2010, he was appointed a president of one of these committees. In the area of substantive law, he specialized himself in classic civil cases, e. g. ownership, rental and labor law cases. He also decided in family cases or on the custody of minors. While working for Prague 1 District Court, which is characterized by one of the hardest civil cases in the country, he aimed his attention to recovery of damages caused by the state (for unlawful decision or incorrect procedure) and health injuries. In addition, he has experience with intellectual property disputes, unfair competition disputes and protection of good reputation of corporations.
In 2002-2008, judge Jirsa served as the president of Union of Judges. He participated in many projects, e. g. adoption of the code of ethics for judges, adoption of principles of career structure for judges, so-called “mini-teams”, educational projects for judges or support of mediation in non-criminal cases finalized by adoption of the Mediation Act. He is the Honorary President of Union of Judges which is the only professional organization of judges in the Czech Republic.
Judge Jirsa has been lecturing and publishing specialized texts. He has lectured for Judicial Academy, Czech Bar Association, Chamber of Law Enforcement Officials, Union of Judges etc. In 2010, he was awarded the bronze medal of Antonin Randa by the Union of Czech Lawyers for his lecturing and publication activities in the area of civil procedural law. In 2007 – 2012, he was a member of accreditation working group for the areas of law and security with the Charles University, School of Law.
On 7 October 2015, the President of the Czech Republic appointed him as a Justice of the Constitutional Court.
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- prof. JUDr. Josef Fiala, Czech Republic
After finishing his law school studies, he joined the department of civil law as a full-time assistant (1976-1996). In 1978, he obtained the “JUDr.” degree (thesis entitled “Position of civil law in the system of law“). He became senior assistant in the same year. In 1984, he obtained the academic degree “Candidate of Sciences” in the field of civil law. In 1996, he was awarded the degree of assistant professor after defending his thesis entitled “Ownership of apartments in the Czech Republic” where he took into account previous outcomes of scientific approaches to the nature of apartment ownership. He was awarded the full professorship in 2006. In 1995-2001, he served as a vice-dean of the law school, and in 2004-2015, he led the department of civil law. He took part in various forms of pedagogical work in all study programs at the Masaryk University, School of Law. In addition, he was a member of several research projects (e. g. in 2004-2011, he was the deputy coordinator in the project entitled “European context of the evolution of Czech law after 2004”). He used the outcomes of this research in his publications.
Apart from his academic activities, he used to be a commercial lawyer, an attorney, member of Government’s Legislative Board and its committees, member of appellate boards of the President of the Office for the Protection of Competition, and an arbitrator of the Arbitration Court attached to the Czech Chamber of Commerce and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic. He frequently lectures professionals, e. g. Czech Bar Association etc. In 1991, he worked at the Constitutional Court of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic as a law clerk of judge Pavel Mates. Since 1993, he has been a law clerk of three judges of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic – Ivana Janů, Eva Zarembová and Miloš Holeček.
On 17 December 2015, the President of the Czech Republic appointed him as a Justice of the Constitutional Court.
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- Prof. JUDr. Pavel Šámal, Czech Republic
After completing his studies at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague in 1977, he earned a doctor of law (JUDr.) academic degree in 1980, followed by a Ph.D. in 1999. In 2001, he was appointed Associate Professor of criminal law, and in 2006, the Czech president appointed him Professor of criminal law, criminology and criminalistics. He is a Professor of criminal law at the Faculty of Law of the Comenius University in Bratislava and at the Faculty of Law of the Charles University in Prague; he also works as external lecturer at the Department of Criminal Law at the Police Academy of the Czech Republic in Prague and as a lecturer at the Judicial Academy in Kroměříž and the Judicial Academy of the Slovak Republic in Pezinok.
He began his career as a judge at the District Court in Most where he worked as a presiding judge of a panel from 1979. In 1982, he left for the Regional Court in Ústí nad Labem, and in 1991, for the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic (transformed into the High Court in Prague in 1993). He was a judge and presiding judge of a panel of the Criminal Division of the Supreme Court in Brno from 1993. He was appointed president of the Supreme Court on January 22, 2015. While serving as a judge of the Supreme Court, he held internships at the legislative department of the Ministry of Justice between 1999 and 2004, and was involved in the drafting of fundamental laws in the area of criminal justice. He has been sitting on the Examination Board for the examination of judicial candidates (since 1992) and for bar examination of trainee lawyers in criminal law (since 1996). Furthermore, he has been a member of the working committee of the Legislative Council of the Czech Government for criminal law (since 1998) a member of editorial boards of legal journals, such as Právní rozhledy, Bulletin advokacie, Soudní rozhledy, Trestněprávní revue and Collection of Decisions and Opinions – Selected Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, considered to be of importance for the Czech judicial practice by the Supreme Court. He became member of the International Association of Penal Law (Association Internationale de Droit Pénal) in 2002. Before the Czech Republic joined the European Union, he was a member of the coordination group of the Ministry of Justice set up for the purpose of institutional integration of the Czech Republic into the European Union. He further serves on the Science Council of the Faculty of Law of the Masaryk University in Brno, Science Council of the Faculty of Law of the Charles University in Prague and is a long-standing member of the commission for the re-codification of substantive and procedural criminal law of the Ministry of Justice.
He was appointed as a Constitutional Court Justice by the Czech president on February 20, 2020.
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Constitutional Court of the Republic of Turkey
- Prof. Dr. Zühtü ARSLAN, Turkey
Mr. Zühtü Arslan graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University, in 1987. He received his master’s degree on “Human Rights and Civil Freedoms” and PhD degree on constitutional law at the Law Faculty of Leicester University (UK). He obtained the title of associate professor in 2002 and professor of constitutional law in 2007.
Prof. Arslan was appointed as the Judge of the Constitutional Court by the President of the Republic of Turkey on 17 April 2012 from among three candidates proposed by the Council of Higher Education.He was elected as the President of the Constitutional Court by the Plenary of the Court on 10 February 2015, and re-elected on 25 January 2019.
Prof. Arslan published following three books in Turkish: Anayasa Teorisi (Constitutional Theory, 2005 ), Avrupa İnsan Hakları Sözleşmesinde Din Özgürlüğü (Freedom of Religion under the European Convention on Human Rights, 2005), and Türk Parlamento Tarihi 1957-1960 (History of Turkish Parliament between 1957–1960) (3 Volumes, 2013). He also edited a book titled ABD Yüksek Mahkemesi Kararlarında İfade Özgürlüğü (Freedom of Expression in the Judgments of the US Supreme Court, 2003).
He is the co-author of the book Constitutional Law in Turkey, (Wolters Kluwer, 2016). He has also published numerous articles in national and international law reviews on constitutional law, human rights, relations of freedom-security and the law of political parties. https://www.anayasa.gov.tr/en/president/resume/
- Hasan Tahsin GÖKCAN, Turkey
Graduate in Law, Faculty of Law, Ankara University, 1987. Master’s Degree in Public Law, Gazi University, 1991.Judge in Fındıklı, Tuzluca and Bozüyük respectively. Reporting Judge at the Court of Cassation, 1998. Judge at the Court of Cassation, 2011.
Judge at the Constitutional Court since 2014. Vice President of the Constitutional Court since 15 April 2019.
https://www.anayasa.gov.tr/en/judges/deputy-presidents/hasan-tahsin-gokcan/
- Kadir ÖZKAYA, Turkey
Graduate in Public Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Gazi University, 1985. Public Servant at General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre. Controller at Cooperative Associations of Agriculture and Credits.
Candidate Judge, 1991. Reporting Judge at the Council of State, 1993.
Master’s Degree in Public Administration, the Institution of Public Administration for Turkey and the Middle East, 2002. Rapporteur Judge at the Constitutional Court, 2005 – 2011. Member of the Council of State, 2011 – 2014. Justice of the Constitutional Court, 2014. Vice President of the Constitutional Court since 3 April 2020.
https://www.anayasa.gov.tr/en/judges/deputy-presidents/kadir-ozkaya/
- Prof. Dr. Engin YILDIRIM, Turkey
B.A Diploma of the Faculty of Economics, 1987.
M.A. Diploma of the Warwick University (England), Warwick Business School, 1989.
Ph. D Diploma of the Manchester University (England), Faculty of Economics and Social Studies, 1994. Faculty Member, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Sakarya University, 1994 – 2010. Dean, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Sakarya University, 2003 – 2010. Justice of the Constitutional Court, 9 April 2010 – at present. Vice President of the Constitutional Court, 19 October 2015 – 25 October 2019.
https://www.anayasa.gov.tr/en/judges/judges/prof-dr-engin-yildirim/
- Hicabi DURSUN, Turkey
B.A. in Public Administration, Faculty of Political Sciences, Istanbul University, 1988.
Candidate to be audit assistant in 1991. Auditor, Chief Auditor and Expert Auditor at the Court of Accounts, 1993-2008. Member of the Court of Accounts on 25 June 2009. President of the Court of Jurisdictional Disputes, 11 June 2018 – 16 July 2020. Justice of the Constitutional Court, 6 October 2010 – at present.
https://www.anayasa.gov.tr/en/judges/judges/hicabi-dursun/
- Celal Mümtaz AKINCI, Turkey
Studied at the College of Public Relations and Journalism, Academy of Economics and Commercial Sciences, Ankara, 1975 – 1976. B.A. in Law, Faculty of Law, Ankara University, 1982. Practising Lawyer in Afyonkarahisar, 1984. Head of the Bar Association in Afyonkarahisar, 2001 – 2010. Justice of the Constitutional Court, 13 October 2010 – at present. President of the Court of Jurisdictional Disputes, 17 December 2020 – at present.
https://www.anayasa.gov.tr/en/judges/judges/celal-mumtaz-akinci/
- Muammer TOPAL, Turkey
Graduate in finance, Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University, 1988. Reporting Judge at the Council of State, 1992. Member of the Ankara District Administrative Court.
Master’s degree, the Institute on Public Administration for Turkey and Middle East Lecturer at Turkish Academy of Justice. Member of the Council of State, 2011 – 2012. Justice of the Constitutional Court, 29 January 2012 – at present. Vice-President of the Court of Jurisdictional Disputes, 17 December 2020 – at present.
https://www.anayasa.gov.tr/en/judges/judges/muammer-topal/
- Muhammed Emin KUZ, Turkey
Graduate of Faculty of Law, Ankara University, 1981. Master’s degree in the same Faculty, 1982. Candidate Judge in Ankara, 1982. Military service as officer (legal advisor) in the Ministry of Defence. Assistant Expert, Expert, Head of Department, Principal Consultant and Deputy Undersecretary in the Prime Ministry, 1986. Member of Higher Education Council as of 18/10/2005. Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency, 7 September 2007. Justice of the Constitutional Court, 8 March 2013 – at present.
https://www.anayasa.gov.tr/en/judges/judges/muhammed-emin-kuz/
- Rıdvan GÜLEÇ, Turkey
Graduate in International Relations, Faculty of Economics, Istanbul University, 1988. Public Officer at the Ministry of Transportation, 1989-1991. Assistant Auditor at the Court of Accounts, 1991. Auditor, Chief Auditor and Expert Auditor respectively. Member of the Court of Accounts, 2009 – 2015. Justice of the Constitutional Court, 2015 – at present.
https://www.anayasa.gov.tr/en/judges/judges/ridvan-gulec/
- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Recai AKYEL, Turkey
B.A degree in Public Administration, Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University, 1987.
M.A degree in Public Administration, Gazi University. Ph.D degree in Business Administration, Çukurova University. District Governor Candidate of Eskişehir, Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1989. District Governor of Adana (Pozantı), Afyonkarahisar, Giresun, Bingöl, Düzce, Adana (İmamoğlu), Mardin and Kahramanmaraş respectively. Governor of Tokat, 2007 – 2009. President of the Court of Accounts, 2009. President of the Arbitration Board for Civil Servants in Turkey, 2012. Vice President of European Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (EUROSAI); Member of Governing Board and Audit Committee of Asian Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (ASOSAI); President of Economic Co-operation Organization Supreme Audit Institutions (ECOSAI), 2009 – 2016. Member of the Court of Accounts. Justice of the Constitutional Court, 25 August 2016 – at present.
https://www.anayasa.gov.tr/en/judges/judges/assoc-prof-dr-recai-akyel/
- Prof. Dr. Yusuf Şevki HAKYEMEZ, Turkey
B.A degree in Public Administration, Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University, 1994.
M.A degree in Public Law, Marmara University. Ph.D degree in Public Law, Marmara University. Research Assistant in Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Karadeniz Technical University, 1995. Dean of Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Karadeniz Technical University, 2010 – 2012. Vice Rector of Karadeniz Technical University, 2012 – 2016. Dean of Faculty of Law, Karadeniz Technical University, 2015 – 2016.Associate Member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences, 2012. Member of Human Rights Institution of Turkey, 2012 – 2015.
Member of Right to Information Assessment Board, 2012 – 2016. Justice of the Constitutional Court, 25 August 2016 – at present.
https://www.anayasa.gov.tr/en/judges/judges/prof-dr-yusuf-sevki-hakyemez/
- Yıldız SEFERİNOĞLU, Turkey
B.A. degree, Faculty of Law, Istanbul University, 1991. Attorney at Law, 1993. Member of Parliament from Istanbul in the 26th term, 2015. Head of Turkey-Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group and Member of Committee of Justice of the TGNA. Deputy Minister of Justice, 2018 – 2019. Justice of the Constitutional Court, 25 January 2019 – at present.
https://www.anayasa.gov.tr/en/judges/judges/yildiz-seferinoglu/
- Selahaddin MENTEŞ, Turkey
B.A. degree, Faculty of Law, Ankara University, 1994. Candidate Judge in Elazığ, 1995.
Judge in Denizli (Buldan), 1998; Judge in Eskişehir-Han, Adıyaman-Gölbaşı (at cadastral courts, magistrate’s court in civil matters, criminal courts of first instance) respectively.
Judge at the Assize Court (the competent court specified in Article 250 of the Turkish Criminal Procedure Code) in Diyarbakır, 2006. Chairman of the Justice Commission for Judicial Courts and President of the 1st Assize Court in Diyarbakır, 2010 – 2012. Presiding judge of the 4th Assize Court in Adana, 2012. Deputy Undersecretary; Chairman of the Commission on Examination of the State of Emergency Procedures, 2017. Undersecretary, Ministry of Justice, 2017 – 2018. Deputy Minister of Justice, 2018 – 2019. Justice of the Constitutional Court, 6 July 2019 – at present.
https://www.anayasa.gov.tr/en/judges/judges/selahaddin-mentes/
- Basri BAĞCI, Turkey
B.A. degree, Faculty of Law, Ankara University, 1988. M.A. degree, International Law on Human Rights, University of Exeter, United-Kingdom. Candidate Judge in Ankara, 1989.
Public Prosecutorrespectively in Sivas (Gürün), in Siirt (Pervari), Konya (Hüyük). Inspector at the Inspection Board, Ministry of Justice, 1999; and Chief Inspector, Ministry of Justice, 2005. Deputy Director at the Directorate General for Criminal Affairs; Deputy Director at the Directorate General for Prisons and Detention Houses; and Deputy Undersecretary, Ministry of Justice. Judge at the Court of Cassation, 2017.Justice of the Constitutional Court, 2 April 2020
https://www.anayasa.gov.tr/en/judges/judges/basri-bagci/
- İrfan FİDAN, Turkey
B.A. degree, Faculty of Law, Ankara University, 1996. Public prosecutor at various provinces, 1999-2012. Acting chief public prosecutor, Istanbul, 2015-2016. Chief public prosecutor, Istanbul, 2016-2020. Member of the Court of Cassation, 2020. Justice of the Constitutional Court, 23 January 2021 – at present.
https://www.anayasa.gov.tr/en/judges/judges/irfan-fidan/