Angelika Nussberger

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Angelika Helene Anna Nußberger (* 1. June 1963 in Munich as Angelika Helene Anna Joas ) is a German legal scholar and Slavistin. Since 2002 she has held the chair for constitutional law, international law and comparative law at the University of Cologne . From 2011 to 2020 she was a judge, from 2017 to 2019 she was Vice-President of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). In 2020 she returned to the University of Cologne.

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Angelika Nußberger studied Slavic Studies in Munich from 1982 to 1987 and law from 1984 to 1989. In 1988 she obtained a degree in comparative law (diplôme en droit comparé) from the University of Strasbourg . The first state examination took place in Munich in 1989 and the second state examination in law in 1993 in Heidelberg. She received her doctorate in Würzburg in 1993 with a study on Soviet constitutional law in the transition period. After a research stay at Harvard (1994/1995), Nußberger worked from 1993 to 2001 as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law . From 2001 to 2002, Nussberger was a legal advisor at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.

In 2002, she completed her habilitation in Munich with a thesis on social standards in international law . In the same year she was appointed professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Cologne , where she has headed the Institute for Eastern European Law and Comparative Law since October 1, 2002. In 2009 she became prorector of the University of Cologne with the newly created rectorate for academic careers, diversity and international affairs. Her main research interests include the German, European and international protection of fundamental rights, comparative constitutional law and the influence of international law on legal developments in Central and Eastern Europe.

On June 22, 2010, Nussberger was elected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to be a judge at the ECHR, where on January 1, 2011 she succeeded Renate Jaeger as a judge sent by Germany. Since November 1, 2015, she has presided over Section 5 of the ECHR as Section President and on February 1, 2017, she was elected Vice-President of the Court. In January 2020 she handed over her position as a judge at the ECHR to Anja Seibert-Fohr . In February 2020, Nussberger was appointed by the President of the ECHR to succeed Giovanni Grasso as one of the three international judges at the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina . In July 2020, Nussberger began work as a member of the "Commission de réflexion sur la Cour de cassation 2020-2030" to develop reform proposals for the highest French court of ordinary jurisdiction, the Cour de cassation . On August 18, 2020 she was appointed by the Hessian Interior Minister Peter Beuth to chair the independent expert commission "Police responsibility in a pluralistic society - strengthening the good work of police officers, recognizing and punishing misconduct early on", which developed and adopted a new model for the Hessian police To evaluate measures.

From 2004 to 2010 she was a member of the “Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations” of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva, and from 2006 to 2010 she was a deputy member of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe. She is a member of the permanent deputation of the German Lawyers' Association , the Presidium of the Institute for Legal Policy, the Senate of the Schader Foundation , the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law and the German Association of Constitutional Law Teachers, as well as an alumna of the German National Academic Foundation .

She has received numerous awards and memberships for her work. She was the 2010 honorary doctorate from the Tbilisi State University and 2019, the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu awarded. For 2015 she was awarded the Schader Prize . In 2019 she was elected to the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts . Since January 1, 2020, Nußberger has also been a full member of the Venice Commission. Also in 2019 she was awarded the Arthur Burkhardt Prize and the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Certificate of Honor (2019). Also in 2019 he became a member of the Legion of Honor (Officier de la Légion d'honneur). In 2020 he became Honorary Bencher at Lincoln's Inn .

She is married to the biophysics professor Stephan Nußberger and has two grown children.

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Monographs

  • Social standards in international law. A study on the development and significance of the standard-setting of the United Nations, the International Labor Organization and the Council of Europe on questions of social protection . Berlin 2005 ISBN 3-428-12009-4 .
  • International law: history, institutions, perspectives . Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-56278-5 .
  • together with Margareta Mommsen : The Putin System. Guided Democracy and Political Justice in Russia , Munich 2007, ISBN 3-406-54790-7 .
  • Constitutional control in the Soviet Union and Germany. A comparative law comparison of Komitet Konstitucionnogo Nadzora and the Federal Constitutional Court . Baden-Baden 1994, ISBN 3-7890-3262-X .

Editorships

  • Introduction to Russian Law . Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-48391-2 .
  • together with Caroline von Gall: Conscious remembering and conscious forgetting. The legal handling of the past in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe . Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-16-150862-2 .

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Remarks

  1. ^ New prorectors at the University of Cologne
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Janisch: Anja Seibert-Fohr. The judge cares about human rights. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 301, December 31, 2019/1. January 2020, p. 4.
  3. ^ Angelika Nussberger named as the new Judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina . In: Sarajevo Times , February 15, 2020. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  4. ↑ Installation de la commission de réflexion sur la Cour de cassation 2020–2030. Accessed on 25 August 2020.
  5. ↑ Minister of the Interior appoints a commission of experts to deal with misconduct and to develop a new model for the Hessian police and evaluation of measures taken
  6. ^ Permanent deputation of the German Lawyers' Association
  7. ^ Presidium of the Institute for Legal Policy
  8. ^ Senate of the Schader Foundation
  9. ^ Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law
  10. ^ Association of constitutional law teachers
  11. ↑ Angelika Nußberger: Winner of the Schader Prize 2015
  12. ↑ The Most Complicated State in the World . In: Legal Tribune Online , March 16, 2020. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  13. ↑ Laureate of the Arthur Burkhardt Foundation for Science Promotion
  14. ↑ Lauréats du Certificat d'Honneur du Ministre des Affaires étrangères du Japon (2019)
  15. ↑ Nussberger before taking office as ECHR Vice President - Justice is not just justice , Legal Tribune Online, January 30, 2017 (accessed June 21, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Nussberger, Angelika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nußberger, Angelika Helene Anna (full name); Joas, Angelika Helene Anna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich