Iulia Motoc

Iulia Antoanella Motoc is a Romanian lawyer and international law expert now Judge at the European Court of Human Rights. Motoc is professor at the University of Bucharest. Before beginning her service at the Court, she served as a Judge at the Constitutional Court of Romania. Motoc was UN Special Rapporteur for the Democratic Republic of Congo,she chaired a number of international experts bodies and was VicePresident of the UN Human Rights Committee. OnOctober 2013, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected Motoc a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights with respect to Romania. She received an absolute majority of votes cast by parliamentarians. Her nine year term of office began on December 18, 2013.

Iulia Motoc was born in Timisoara.She graduated from the School of Law at the University of Bucharest. Iulia Antoanella Motoc holds a masters degree from the Paul Czanne University School of Law, AixMarseille a doctorate in international law from Paul Czanne University in 1996 an habilitation in law from Jean Monnet Department University Paris Sud in and a doctorate in ethics from the University of Bucharest, Department of Philosophy. Iulia Motoc was fellow in philosophy to the Institut fr die Wissenschaften vom Menschen , Vienna and to the Yale School of Law.

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