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Prof. Dr. Rona Aybay
Member March 1996-present
Appointed by the Council of Europe from Turkey
Mr. Aybay was educated in Istanbul and in the United States of America, where he gained a Masters Degree in Comparative Law at Columbia University. Among his past positions, he has been Vice-President of the Istanbul Bar Association; Associate Dean of the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Ankara; Dean of the Faculty of Administrative Sciences at the Middle East Technical University( Member of the European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance( and a Visiting Fulbright Professor at Iowa University Law School in the USA. He is currently a Professor at the faculty of law at Istanbul Bilgi University and President of the Aybay Foundation for Legal Studies. He is an author of several books and articles in the field of human rights, constitutional law and private international law.
Mr. Hasan Balić
Member March 1996-present
Appointed by the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mr. Balić completed postgraduate studies in criminal law at the University of Sarajevo in 1975 and afterwards was awarded a Ph.D. at the Criminal Law Department on 6 December 1999. After having worked as a judge at the Municipal Court in Foča and Municipal Court I in Sarajevo, he was appointed as a judge of the District Court in Sarajevo (1975 - 1981); of the Associated Labour Court in BiH (1981 - 1984); and from 1984 to 1995 of the Supreme Court of the Republic of BiH and the President of the Criminal Court, which decided upon the applications of the Hague Tribunal. He has also published two books on labour law and occupancy law and has participated in articles for national and international law magazines.
Mr. Mehmed Deković
Member March 1996-present
Appointed by the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mr. Deković has worked as a judge at the Municipality Court in Sarajevo (1971-1975); at the Commercial Court of BiH (1975-1980); and at the Supreme Court of the Republic of BiH from 1983 to 1996. He has been a member of several expert commissions. Mr. Deković is the author of several books on employment and property rights; has published articles in several law magazines; and is the main editor of the magazine "Pravna Misao," which was published during the war.
Prof. Dr. Giovanni Grasso
Member March 1996-present, Vice President December 1998-present
Appointed by the Council of Europe from Italy
Mr. Grasso holds a Master of Laws Degree from the University of Catania. At present he is a full Professor of criminal law in the Law Faculty of the University of Catania since 1987; Legal Counselor for imternational cooperation in criminal matters of the Italan Misnister of Interior; member of the Catania Bar, the Scientific Council of the ISISC (Institute Superieur de Sciences Criminelles), and the Scientific Councilor of the "Espana European Institute"; and President of the Centre of European Criminal Law in Catania. He was also a member of the Research Group set up by the European Commission to make recommendations on the "European Judicial Space." He is a former member of experts committee of the Council of Europe and of numerous commissions and delegations. He was Legal Counsel to the Italian Government Agent before the European Commission and Court of Human Rights in 1987-1989 and in 1992. He is author of several books, commentaries to the Italian criminal code, and numerous publications in the field of criminal law, human rights law and international law.
Mr. Andrew Grotrian
Member December 1997-present
Appointed by the Council of Europe from the United Kingdom
Mr. Grotrian graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) in 1966 from the University of St Andrews (Queen's College, Dundee), and he was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates (Scotland) in 1970. Mr. Grotrian practised as an advocate during the years 1970-74 and 1984-96. From 1974 to 1984, he worked as lawyer in the Secretariat of the European Commission of Human Rights. He later joined the United Nations Independent Jurist for Namibia as an Assistant, where he was also appointed to the UN Mission on Detainees. From 1996 to 1997 he worked as the Registrar of the Human Rights Chamber.
Mr. Želimir Juka
Member March 1996-present
Appointed by the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Educated at the University of Sarajevo, Mr. Juka was appointed as a judge of District Court II in Sarajevo until 1969. Afterwards, he was nominated Deputy of the Municipality and District Attorney in Split, and Deputy Republic Public Attorney from 1983 until 1994, when he was appointed as a judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of BiH. He resigned from the Constitutional Court in 1996. He also served as a Deputy Prosecutor for the Federation of BiH in 1997, but resigned in 1998.
Mr. Vlatko Markotić
Member March 1996-April 1999
Appointed by the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
After completing his studies at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb, Mr. Markotić worked for more than 30 years as a lawyer with a trade company in Zavidovići with over 14,000 employees.
Prof. Dr. Viktor Masenko-Mavi
Member March 1997-present
Appointed by the Council of Europe from Hungary
Having specialised in international law at Kiev State University, where he was awarded a Ph.D., Mr. Masenko - Mavi has been working since 1989 as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Legal and Administrative Sciences at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has carried out teaching activities simultaneously with research work. Since 1991 he has been a Member of the Council of Europe Committee on the Development of Human Rights and the Deputy Director of the Hungarian Centre for Human Rights. He has published three books and more than 30 articles and reports on different problems of international law.
Mr. Jakob Möller
Member March 1996-present, Vice President December 1996-December 1997,
Acting President July-October 1997
Appointed by the Council of Europe from Iceland
A lawyer and judge from Iceland, Mr. Möller worked as the Chief of the UN Communications Branch (1974 -1996), and Secretary of the UN Commission on Human Rights (1995 -1996). He has also been a lecturer for the UN and a speaker at universities and institutions on the UN human rights programme. Mr. Möller has written articles and commentaries for several international law publications on human rights.
Prof. Dr. Manfred Nowak
Member March 1996-present, Vice President December 1997-December 1998
Appointed by the Council of Europe from Austria
Mr. Nowak holds a Master of Law and Ph.D. Degrees from Vienna University and Columbia University in New York. At present he is a Professor of law at the Austrian Federal Academy of Public Administration (since 1989) and Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights at Vienna University (since 1992). He is a member of the International Commission of Jurists, the UN Working Group on Disappearances and recipient of the 1994 UNESCO Prize for the Teaching of Human Rights. Among his past positions, he has been Director of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights at Utrecht University (1987-1989), member of the Austrian delegation to the UN Commission on Human Rights (1986-1994), and UN Expert on Missing Persons in the Former Yugoslavia (1994-1997). He is author of numerous books and articles in the fields of human rights, public and international law, and politics.
Mr. Miodrag Pajić
Member March 1996-present
Appointed by the Republika Srpska
After graduating from the faculty of law, Mr. Pajić worked as an agent and later as the director of a large company. Mr. Pajić was appointed in 1990 as the Director of Legal Property Department and Cadastral Survey in the Municipality of Brčko. He was also Mayor of Brčko from 1993 until 1997.
Ms. Michèle Picard
Member March 1996-present, President November 1997-present
Appointed by the Council of Europe from France
After receiving a Master of Laws degree from the University of Paris II, Ms. Picard was appointed as a judge in 1982. She later joined the Cour de Cassation as an auditeur in 1984. She worked with the Ministry of Economy and Finance in commercial and social law from 1987 to 1989. In 1989, Ms. Picard began working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the legal department where she dealt with international human rights, including cases before the European Court of Human Rights and the UN Committee of Human Rights. Since 1995, Ms. Picard has been working as a judge at the "Tribunal des Grande Instance de Paris."
Prof. Dr. Vitomir Popović
Member March 1996-present
Appointed by the Republika Srpska
Mr. Popović holds a MA degree from the Faculty of Law in Banja Luka and a Ph.D. in International Commercial Law at the University of Belgrade. He was President and judge of the First Instance Court in Banja Luka and Vice President of the Government of Republika Srpska for Interior Affairs; Director of the Institute for International Law and International Business Co-operation in Banja Luka; arbiter for the Republika Srpska for the area of Brčko, arbiter of foreign trade arbitration in Federal Republic Yugoslavia and Macedonian arbitration; he is permanently employed as a professor of Foreign Trade Law at the Law School of the University of Banja Luka; he is a judge of the Constitutional Court of BiH. He published a number of professional and science works in the country and abroad.
Prof. Dr. Dietrich Rauschning
Member March 1996-present
Appointed by the Council of Europe from Germany
Mr. Rauschning obtained his legal training at the Universities of Hamburg, Munich and Vancouver B.C., and at the courts of Hamburg. Holding a doctoral degree from the University of Hamburg, he received his Habilitation at the Law Faculty of Kiel. Since 1970 he has been a full professor of public law and Director of the Institute of Public International Law at the University of G(ttingen. He has been, inter alia, dean of his faculty, founding dean of the Law Faculty at Halle/Saale and Legal Counsel to the State Government of Lower Saxony. The books and articles he has published have dealt mainly with topics of public international law and constitutional law.
Mr. Mato Tadić
Member June 1999-present
Appointed by the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
After graduating from the Faculty of Law of the University of Sarajevo, Mr. Tadić worked with the Municipal Public Prosecutor's Office in Brčko. In 1978 he was appointed a Deputy Public Prosecutor and in 1983 Public Prosecutor. In 1990 he was appointed Deputy Republic Public Prosecutor for Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo. From 1994-1998 Mr. Tadić served as Minister of Justice of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is the author of several works in criminal law, constitutional law and local self-government.
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