Prof. Angelika Nussberger

Angelika Nussberger specializes in the protection of fundamental rights, comparative constitutional law, and the influence of international law on legal development in Central and Eastern Europe. In 2010, she was elected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights. In 2017, she became Vice President of this court, the first German to hold this position. After returning to the University of Cologne in 2020, she became the founding director of the Academy for European Human Rights Protection there. Since 2020, she has also been a Judge of the Constitutional Court in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Germany’s representative at the ‘Venice Commission’ (European Commission for Democracy through Law), whose Vice President she became in 2022.