Angelika Nußberger - Biography#

Angelika Nußberger has been a professor at the University of Cologne since 2002. She holds the Chair of Constitutional Law, International Law and Comparative Law and is founding Director of the Academy of European Human Rights Protection as well as director of the Institute for Eastern European Law and Comparative Law. She is the German member and since 2021 Vice President of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe, an international judge at the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and an advisor on international law to the German Foreign Office. From 2020 to 2021 she was a member of the reform commission on the French Cour de Cassation; at present time she is one of the organizers of the "Cycle d'Études Judiciaires Européennes of the École Nationale de la Magistrature" under the French chairmanship of the European Union. From 2011 to 2019, she was the judge elected for Germany at the European Court of Human Rights; from 2017 until the end of her mandate, she was the Court's Vice-President. She studied Slavic studies, modern German and French literature as well as law in Munich and Würzburg. In 1985, she was in Moscow for a study visit, from 1994 to 1995 she was a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School.