Angelika Nußberger#


Angelika Nußberger
Photo: Josef Fischnaller
Membership Number:6218
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:LAW
Elected:2022
Main Country of Residence:GERMANY
Homepage(s):http://academy-humanrights.uni-koeln.de/
ORCID:0000-0002-2912-6550




Present and Previous Positions
  • 2002 Full professor at the University of Cologne, Director of the Academy of European Human Rights Protection
  • 2019 International Judge at the Constitutional Court of Bosnia-Herzegowina
  • 2019 Member of the Venice Commission on behalf of Germany
  • 2020 Chair-person within the arbitration mechanism foreseen in the Withdrawal Agreement ("Brexit-Panel")
  • 2020 - 2021 Head of an investigative commission on extremism in the police of the Land Hessen
  • 2011 - 2019 Judge at the European Court of Human Rights (vice-president from 2017-2019)
  • 2010 Vice-rector of the University of Cologne
  • 2003 - 2010 Member of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations of the International Labour Organisation
  • 2009 Member of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia (IIFFMCG) led by Heidi Tagliavini
  • 2001 - 2002 Legal Advisor (Council of Europe), General Directorate III (Social Cohesion)
  • 1993 - 2001 Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Social Law, Munich

Fields of Scholarship
  • International and European human rights protection
  • Comparative constitutional law with a focus on the countries of Eastern Europe
  • General international law with a focus on differences between different regions
  • Constitutional law with a focus on questions of rule of law and democracy

Honours and Awards
  • 2010 Doctor honoris causa, University of Tbilissi
  • 2015 Prize of the Schader-Foundation
  • Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law
  • 2018 Doctor honoris causa of the Higher School of Advocacy of the Ukrainian Bar Association
  • 2019 Arthur-Burkhardt Prize
  • 2019 Doctor honoris causa of the Lucian-Blage University of Sibiu, Romania
  • 2019 Officier de la Légion d’honneur
  • 2019 Honorary Certificate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
  • 2019 Admission to the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
  • 2020 Honorary Bencher at Lincoln’s Inn
  • 2021 Max-Friedländer-Prize of the Bavarian Lawyers' Association

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