|
 Dr
Julia Laffranque was elected Chair of the
Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE) on 22
November 2007 by unanimous vote of the Council’s
Plenary, after serving two years as Vice-Chair of
the CCJE.
Dr Laffranque is a Professor of
European law, University of Tartu, Member of the
Permanent Court of Arbitration, since 2010, Judge of
the European Court of Human Rights since 4 January
2011. Dr Laffranque has been Judge at the Supreme
Court of Estonia from 2004 to 2010.
Julia Laffranque is a graduate of
the Law Faculty of Tartu University. She has also
studied at the universities of Hamburg and Kiel, the
European University Institute in Florence and
obtained her Master’s degree in law (LL.M) at the
University of Münster. Mrs Laffranque holds a
Doctoral degree in jurisprudence from her native
University of Tartu.
She is the author of several law
books and has completed traineeships at the Legal
Service of the European Commission, at the
Ministries of Justice in Sweden and France, the
Supreme Administrative Court of Germany, and the
Conseil d'Etat of France; she has also served as
an ad hoc judge at the European Court of
Human Rights.
Prior to her appointment as
judge, Dr Laffranque worked at the Estonian Ministry
of Justice, starting as an expert in EU law.
Thereafter, she was appointed to head the EU Law and
Foreign Relations Division, and later she served as
the Deputy Secretary General on Legislative
Drafting. In latter capacity, she was in charge of
Estonia's preparations to join the European Union
and responsible for the approximation of Estonian
legislation to European law and for preparing draft
laws, including constitutional amendments.
Dr Laffranque is
a part-time docent in European law at the Law
Faculty of Tartu University. She is a member of the
Estonian Association of Judges, president of the
Estonian European Law Society, member of the Board
of Estonian Academic Law Society and Estonian
Lawyers Union, a member of the sorority Filiae
Patriae, and a former member of the Board of the
policy think-tank "Praxis." Dr Laffranque was
awarded the Estonian White Cross, fourth category,
and she is Chevalier de l'Ordre National du
Mérite of France. Julia Laffranque speaks
Estonian, German, English, French, Finnish and
Russian. |
