Ineta Ziemele

Ineta Ziemele ( born February 12, 1970) is a Latvian law scholar. She is professor of international law and human rights and a judge at the European Court of Human Rights.

Training

1993 graduated Ineta Ziemele the study of law at the University of Latvia, postgraduate studies ( policy, American legal system, European politics and European Law ) at the University of Aarhus (Denmark). In 1994 she completed her Master's degree (Master of International Law, MIL) at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of the Faculty of Law, University of Lund (Sweden ) on The International Legal Status of the Republic of Latvia. In 1997 she had the research stay at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and in 1998 as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Connecticut Law School and New York University School of Law (Global Law School Program ), Nordic Council of Ministers' Scholar at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Lund University ( Sweden). 1999 Ineta Ziemele was at the English University of Cambridge about State Continuity and Nationality in the Baltic States: a doctorate in International and Constitutional Law Issues.

Activity

1990-92 Ineta was Ziemele employee of a Latvian MPs and advisor to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Latvian Parliament ( 1992-95 ). From 1993 to 1995 she worked as a researcher at the Institute of Legal Theory and Political Science and the Institute for International Law and the Law of the University of Latvia. It was in 1995 adviser to the Latvian Prime Minister and 1995-96 UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Chewening Scholar at the University of Cambridge. 1995-1999 she was co-founder and director of the Institute for Human Rights at the Faculty Juristitischen the University of Latvia, where she taught international law, European law and maritime law. She was then employed by 1999-2001 Directorate General of Human Rights in the Euro Europe in Strasbourg.

Since 2001 she has been Visiting Professor at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund University, Söderberg and Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the Riga Graduate School of Law ( RGSL ). Since 27 April 2005 she is a judge at the European Court of Human Rights.

Publication

• State Continuity and Nationality: The Baltic States and Russia. Past, Present and Future as Defined by International Law, 2005, Brill Academic Publishers, ISBN 90-04-14295-9