Juliane Kokott

Juliane Kokott ( born June 18, 1957 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German lawyer. She is the Advocate General at the European Court of Justice ( ECJ) and Adjunct Professor at the University of St. Gallen.

Life

Juliane Kokott studied law in Bonn and Geneva. Subsequently, she earned during a stay as a Fulbright scholar in the United States the academic degree of LL.M. at the American University, Washington, D.C. Parallel to this, she was an assistant to Thomas Buergenthal, a judge at the International Court of Justice; former President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The clerkship they took District Court Heidelberg with a station at the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe and a parallel employment at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. It was followed by a Doctorate in Law. utr. at the University of Heidelberg with a thesis on "The Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights". Kokott also acquired the diploma of the Académie Internationale de Droit Constitutionnel in Tunis. As a wearer of the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society for young scientists led by another study in the USA and was awarded his doctorate by Harvard Law School Doctor of Juridical Sciences ( SJD ).

After her habilitation with right to teach German and Comparative Public Law, International Law and European Law at the University of Heidelberg, she taught at the University of Mannheim, the University of Augsburg and the University of Dusseldorf. From early 2000 until her election to the European Court they headed to the University of St. Gallen, the Institute for European Law, International Law and International Economic Law and held the appropriate department.

On 7 October 2003 Juliane Kokott stepped on a proposal from the German government as the third woman in the history of the European Court as Advocate General Siegbert Alber succeed at. In 2009 she was elected for another six years in office. They worked per year, about forty process and laid the foundation for a series of decisions of the European Court. So she pleaded in the proceedings on different insurance rates for men and women.

Kokott is a member of the Association of Female Lawyers Association and member of the Permanent Deputation of German Jurists Association.

In addition, she is involved eV for the German and European legal education and international understanding on the advisory board of ELSA Germany

Kokott is married and the mother of six children.

Publications (selection )

  • Juliane Kokott: Article 4, 12a, 16, 17a, 87a, 87b, and 116, in: Sachs ( ed.): Basic Law Commentary, 1st - 5th Edition, Munich: C. H. Beck 1996, 1999, 2002, 2007, 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-49233-4.
  • Juliane Kokott et al. Principles of International Law, 3rd ed, Heidelberg: UTB 2003, ISBN 978-3-825-21511-8.
  • Juliane Kokott: Art 281, 282, 296-299, 301-307, 311-314 of the EC Treaty, in: Streinz (ed.), EUV / EGV - Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community - comment, Munich: CH Beck 2003, ISBN 978-3-406-48457-5.
  • . Juliane Kokott / Hartmut Grassl et al: World in Transition: Towards Sustainable Energy - Scientific Advisory Council on Global Change ( WBGU). , 2003.
  • Juliane Kokott et al. Principles of International Law, 1st - 3rd Edition, Heidelberg: C. F. Müller Publishers 1988, 2000, 2003, ISBN 978-3-825-21511-8.
  • Juliane Kokott: equality and prohibition of discrimination in the jurisprudence of the Federal Constitutional Court, in: Badura / Dreier ( ed.), Festschrift 50 years Federal Constitutional Court, vol 2: Clarification and training of constitutional law, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2001, pp. 127-162.
  • Juliane Kokott: burden of proof and forecasting decisions in the use of fundamental rights and international human rights, contributions to foreign public law and international law, vol 110, p 445, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York / ua: Springer Verlag 1993, ISBN 3-540-56762 -3.
  • Juliane Kokott: The Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights - The Inter- American System for the Protection of Human Rights, contributions to foreign public law and international law, Vol 92, 166 pp., Berlin / Heidelberg / New York: Springer Verlag, 1986, ISBN 3-540-17092-8.
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