Judges‘ Responsibility for the ´Visible´ and the ´Invisible´ in Front of the Court

Free entrance. Registration required. Limited seating.

 

 

Moderation by Prof. Alice Margaria

 

Kateřina Šimáčková has served as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights since December 2021. Before her appointment, she held the position of Justice at the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic (2013-2021). Prior to her judicial career, she was a practicing lawyer for many years (1994-2009), handling a diverse range of legal matters and frequently representing clients before the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic. She is also a member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague and the Academic Assembly of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Among her academic publications, she has co-edited a book titled Male Law: Are Legal Rules Neutral?, and co-authored several books, including Human Rights: A (Non-) Sense of Czech Politics? and Twenty Years of the European Convention in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia.

 

Angelika Nußberger received her doctorate in 1993 in Würzburg and habilitated in 2002 with a thesis on social standards in international law. In addition, she was appointed professor at the University of Cologne in the same year, where she has headed the Institute for Eastern European Law and Comparative Law since 1 October 2002. In 2010, Angelika Nußberger was elected as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. On 1 February 2017, she was elected Vice-President of the European Court of Human Rights. She held this office until January 2020 and was the first German Vice-President of the European Court of Human Rights. After her return to the University of Cologne in 2020, she became Director of the newly founded Academy for European Human Rights Protection.

 

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