Ineta Ziemele

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Ineta Ziemele
Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia
In office
8 May 2017 – 2020
Judge of the
European Court of Human Rights
in respect of Latvia
In office
27 April 2005 – 1 January 2015
Judge of the European Court of Justice
Assumed office
2 September 2020
Personal details
Born (1970-02-12) 12 February 1970 (age 54)
ResidenceRiga

Ineta Ziemele (born 12 February 1970) is Latvian jurist and judge at the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia since 2015.[1] On 8 May 2017 she was elected as President of the Constitutional Court.

In 1995, she was a founding member of the Latvian Section of the International Commission of Jurists.[2]

From 27 April 2005 to 2015, she was a judge at the

Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) and other affiliated organizations were involved (the OSJI is cited only because she is a professor at the Riga Graduate School of Law, funded by the Open Society Foundations
-Latvia).

She graduated from the law faculty of the University of Latvia in 1993 and continued her studies in Sweden, where she earned a master's degree in International law. She went on to earn her doctoral degree from University of Cambridge at Wolfson College.[4] She has worked as an adviser for the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Saeima and for the Prime Minister of Latvia. She also has been a professor at the University of Latvia and the Riga Graduate School of Law.[5]

On 2 September 2020 she was appointed as a judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union for the period from 7 September 2020 to 6 October 2024.[6]

Books

  • Ziemele, Ineta (2005). State Continuity and Nationality: The Baltic States and Russia. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. .

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