Anja Seibert-Fohr

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Anja Seibert-Fohr (born April 3, 1969 in Gießen ) is a German lawyer , legal scholar and professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . She has been a judge at the European Court of Human Rights since January 2020 .

Life

Anja Seibert-Fohr studied as a scholarship holder of studienstiftung at the Universities of Bonn , Giessen and Heidelberg . During her studies, she attended a course at the International Institute for Human Rights in Strasbourg. After the subsequent legal clerkship , Seibert-Fohr completed an LL.M. in 1997, which was funded by the DAAD . Studied at the George Washington Law School in the USA . There she was in 2004 with one of Thomas Buergenthal supervised thesis on "Prosecuting Serious Human Rights Violations" doctorate . Her habilitation took place in 2012 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg with a previously unpublished thesis on "Constitutional judges: their function and legitimation in constitutional democracy".

Until 2013, Seibert-Fohr worked as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg , since 2008 as a research group leader.

In 2013 Seibert-Fohr took over the chair for public law, international law and human rights at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . In 2016 she moved to the Faculty of Law at the University of Heidelberg at the Institute for Constitutional Law, Constitutional Theory and Legal Philosophy, where she holds the Chair for Public Law, International Law and Human Rights (Hengstberger Professorship for Fundamental and Future Issues of the Rule of Law).

From 2013 to 2017 Seibert-Fohr was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee . At times she was also its vice-president. She has been a judge at the ECHR since January 2020 . After Renate Jaeger and Angelika Nussberger, Anja Seibert-Fohr is the third woman in a row to hold the German judge's post there.

Anja Seibert-Fohr is the mother of three children.

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Anja Seibert-Fohr's list of publications includes around 60 published articles.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Doerry, Joachim Mohr: "You have to fight for everything" . In: Spiegel Online . tape May 20 , 1998 ( spiegel.de [accessed May 21, 2019]).
  2. ↑ a b c 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. ↑ a b About the person - Heidelberg Faculty of Law. Retrieved December 16, 2019 .
  4. ^ LTO: Anja Seibert-Fohr: the new German ECHR judge. Retrieved July 12, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Christian Rath: Anja Seibert-Fohr becomes a judge at the ECHR: The new one in Strasbourg . In: The daily newspaper: taz . December 30, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed December 31, 2019]).
  6. ↑ List of publications - Heidelberg Faculty of Law. Retrieved May 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Seibert-Fohr, Anja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, legal scholar and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd April 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH to water