June 26, 2024 – 4:47 p.m
Constitutional lawyer András Jakab, professor on the College of Salzburg, was elected as a choose of the European Courtroom of Human Rights (ECHR). Jakab was delegated to the board by Austria, wrote a The press.
The time period of workplace of the present Austrian choose, Gabriele Kucsko-Stadlmayer, on the ECtHR ends on October 31. Since judges can’t be re-elected after their nine-year time period of workplace, Austria needed to delegate a brand new member. The judges of the ECtHR are usually not representatives of particular person states, so it may occur that Jakab, as a Hungarian citizen, was additionally nominated by Austria for this process.
Parliamentary Meeting of the Council of Europe on Wednesday supported it with an absolute majority of 92 votes the appointment of the Hungarian constitutional lawyer. His time period of workplace will start on November 1, 2024.
András Jakab is a constitutional lawyer, college professor, PhD on the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He beforehand labored in Heidelberg, Nottingham, Liverpool, Madrid and Pázmány Péter Catholic College as a college lecturer and researcher. His present analysis areas: constitutional principle, norms, authorized reasoning, transitional justice. He writes greater than 200 scientific publications in 9 languages. He’s presently a professor of Austrian constitutional legislation on the College of Salzburg.
All member states of the Council of Europe can delegate one choose to the ECHR, Hungary’s delegate is presently Péter Paczolay.
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