Webinar: Clarities and Unclarities About Fundamental Notion of Justice

Angelika Nussberger – is professor at Cologne University teaching international law and comparative constitutional law. From 2011 until 2019 she was Judge at the European Court of Human Rights elected on behalf of Germany, and for three years, between 2017 and 2019, she was the Court’s Vice-President. She is the German member of the Venice Commission and International Judge at the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Photo: Josef Fischnaller

Barbara Grabowska-Moroz – is a research fellow at CEU Democracy Institute (Budapest, Hungary). From 2018 to 2021, she was a postdoc researcher in the RECONNECT project (University of Groningen, the Netherlands). Between 2010 and 2018, Barbara worked as a lawyer and project coordinator at the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (Warsaw, Poland), and, as of 2014, as a legal expert at the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRANET). In 2010, Barbara graduated with a Master’s degree from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, and in 2012 with a LL.M degree from the Central European University. In 2017, she successfully defended her doctoral thesis on the oversight of the special security services in Poland.

Kristaps Tamužs – is the Head of the Legal Department of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia. The Legal Department is responsible for research, analysis and systematisation of the case-law of the Constitutional Court as well as the case-law of foreign and international courts. Prior to accepting his current position, he worked as an advisor to the Constitutional Court and before that, he had been working at the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, France for more than six years, first as an assistant lawyer and later as a lawyer. At the ECHR, Mr. Tamužs was assisting judges in processing applications lodged primarily against Latvia. Since 2015, Kristaps Tamužs has also been a visiting lecturer at the Riga Graduate School of Law, teaching courses related to constitutional law and human rights, as well as supervising students’ research activities. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in law at the Concordia International University Estonia and afterwards went on to obtain a LL.M degree in comparative constitutional law from the Central European University in Budapest.

Professor Adam Bodnar – is a lawyer specializing in constitutional law and human rights. He has held the position of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Republic of Poland since September 2015. He is also a former Vice-President of the Helsinki Foundation of Human Rights (2010-2015). Throughout his career, he has been working with many NGOs, including Panoptykon Foundation (Chair of the Foundation Council), ClientEarth Poland (member of the Program Council), Professor Zbigniew Hołda Association (co-founder and member of the board). Additionally, he was a member of the Civic Legislation Forum operating at the Batory Foundation and a member of the Board of Directors of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture (2014 - 2015).

Prof. Bodnar is an author and co-author of numerous scientific publications, in particular on the topic of human rights. His doctoral theses A multilayer citizenship in the European constitutional space received a special prize in a competition organized by Przegląd Sejmowy (Sejm Overview), a bi-monthly publication of the Polish Parliament (Sejm). Professor Bodnar obtained his post-doctoral degree (habilitacja) at the University of Warsaw in 2019. His post-doctoral dissertation was published as Wykonywanie orzeczeń Europejskiego Trybunału Praw Człowieka w Polsce. Wymiar instytucjonalny (Implementation of Judgements of the European Tribunal for Human Rights in Poland. Institutional Dimension), (Wolters Kluwer).