Ekaterina Trendafilova
Ekaterina Panayotova Trendafilowa ( Bulgarian Екатерина Пaнaйoтoвa Трендафилова, even Ekaterina Panayotova Trendafilova, born June 20 1953 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian law scholar. Since 11 March 2006, she is a judge at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Life
After an English-language school ( 1967-1972 ) Visit Trendafilowa studied from 1972 to 1977 Law at the University of Sofia. She graduated from there as well to 1982 postgraduate studies and obtained his doctorate in law and criminal justice two years later. As part of their academic training, she studied in 1983 and 1985 at the Institute of State and Law in Moscow, they also conducted research from 1993 to 1994 as a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Augsburg in 1997 as a Fulbright scholar at the University of California.
As a result Trendafilowa worked as a lecturer at both the University of Sofia ( from 1984) and at the St. Cyril and Methodius University in Veliko Tarnovo ( from 1995). From 1985 to 1989 she also worked in addition to their teaching as deputy prosecutor at the District Court of Sofia, and from 1995 as a lawyer. As a guest lecturer, she taught in addition to the Tōkai University in Japan (1993) and at the Law Faculty of the University of California, Davis ( 1997). In 2001 she was appointed full professor at the University of Sofia.
Since 2004 Trendafilowa worked as European experts under the CARDS project ( Community Assistance for Reconstruction, Development and Stabilisation ) " Establishment of an Independent, Reliable and Functioning Judiciary, and the Enhancing of the Judicial Co -operation in the Western Balkans" the European Commission. In this context, they visited the following year Croatia, Montenegro and Albania, made recommendations with regard to the independence of the judiciary and human rights issues and has been a lecturer at a conference in Skopje on judicial reform in Macedonia.
Trendafilowa was also actively involved in the judicial reform in Bulgaria. From 1990, she participated in the drafting of reformed criminal law and was involved as an expert for the Ministry of Justice, the exterior and the interior ministry with various legal issues, both in the area of criminal law and criminal procedural law as well as in the field of human rights. She advised in 2003 the Legal Committee of the National Assembly with regard to the amendment of the Criminal Procedure Code and from 2004 to 2005 Member of the Working Group for a new Bulgarian Criminal Procedure Code, the Working Group on the extradition law and the European arrest warrant, as well as the Working Group on Mutual Legal Assistance.
On March 11, 2006, she was named on the list A for a term of nine years as a judge at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. It belongs to the Pre-Trial Division and is chairman of the Second Chamber with the responsibility of Uganda, Central African Republic and Kenya.
Trendafilowa is married and has a daughter who is also active as a judge.
Publications (selection )
- Защитникът в наказателния процес на Република България. ( The defender in criminal proceedings of the Republic of Bulgaria). Sofia 1992.
- Съдебният контрол върху предварителното производство на ФРГ. ( The legal control in the preliminary of the German criminal procedure ). Sofia 1995, ISBN 954-07-0784-6.
- Criminal Procedure in Bulgaria. In: Stanisław Frankowski, Paul B. Stephan (ed.): Legal reform in post- communist Europe: the view from within. Martinus Nijhoff, Dordrecht, 1995, ISBN 0-7923-3218-0, pp. 309-329.
- Промените в НПК [ Наказателно процесуалния кодекс ] от 1999 г. : Теоретически положения. Законодателни решения. Тенденции. Ciela, Sofia 2000, ISBN 954-649-274-4.