Ineta Ziemele

Ineta Ziemele
President of the 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
Incumbent
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 European Court of Human Rights(ECHR). In September 2012 she became President of the Court's Fourth Section. As a judge of the ECHR, she was cited in an NGO report for possible conflicts of interest.[3] The report showed that she seated in six cases where the International Commission of Jurists was involved and others cases where 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]

  1. ^ "Ineta Ziemele". Latvijas Republikas Satversmes Tiesa (in Latvian). Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  2. ^ "Election of a judge to the European Court of Human Rights with respect to Latvia". 1 April 2005. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
  3. ^ "NGOS AND THE JUDGES OF THE ECHR, 2009 - 2019, ECLJ". Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  4. ^ University of Cambridge (10 February 1999). "Approved for Degrees". Cambridge University Reporter. 129 (16). Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  5. ^ "Case-law analysis-Guides, Research reports".
  6. ^ Decision (EU) 2020/1251 of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States of 2 September 2020 appointing three Judges and an Advocate-General to the Court of Justice