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
