Angelika Nußberger

Angelika Nußberger is professor of law at the University of Cologne, member of the Venice Commission and international judge at the Constitutional Court of Bosnia Herzegovina. Previously, she was a judge at the European Court of Human Rights (2011-2019), the last three years serving as its vice-president.

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Symposium
The Person Behind the Academic

Chatting with Angelika Nußberger

Angelika Nußberger Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Angelika Nußberger, and through the following questions, we will try to...

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Remembering Professor Rudolf Bernhardt

Angelika Nußberger

Professor Rudolf Bernhardt, former President of the European Court of Human Rights and former director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law died on 1 December 2021...

Symposium
Inter-State Cases under the ECHR

The Way Forward

Angelika Nußberger

In armed conflicts human righs violations are omnipresent. The victims are not counted one by one, but by the hundreds or thousands. For a court such as the European Court...

Interview

“To be a judge means to be criticized from all sides”

Angelika Nußberger Raffaela Kunz Dana Schmalz

Angelika Nußberger was the German judge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for nine years; her term of office came to an end at the turn of the...

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„Richter sein bedeutet, von allen Seiten kritisiert zu werden“

Angelika Nußberger Raffaela Kunz Dana Schmalz

Angelika Nußberger war neun Jahre die deutsche Richterin am Europäischen Menschenrechtsgerichtshofs (EGMR), zum Jahreswechsel ist ihre Amtszeit zu Ende gegangen. Zurück an ihrem Lehrstuhl an der Universität Köln blickt die...