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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 received a Masters Degree in Comparative
Law at Columbia University. Among his past positions, he has
been 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; Vice-President
of the Istanbul Bar Association; 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 author of several books and articles in the field of human
rights, constitutional law and private international law.
 Dr.
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 Foca
and Municipal Court I in Sarajevo, he was appointed a judge
of the District Court in Sarajevo (1975-1981); of the Associated
Labour Court in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1981-1984); and from
1984 to 1995 of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Bosnia
and Herzegovina and of the Criminal Court (of which he was
President), which decided upon the applications of the Hague
Tribunal. He was also a member of the Commission for Qualifying
Exam for Judges. He has published two books on labour law
and occupancy right law and has co-authored articles for national
and international law magazines. He is the author of the book
"Bosnian Cataclysm, Study of the Foča Case". He
is a professor on the Law Faculty of the Sarajevo University
where he teaches International Criminal Law and Victimology.
 Mr.
Mehmed Deković
Member March 1996-present
Appointed by the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mr.
Deković was born in Podgorica and completed his education
in Sarajevo where he graduated from the Faculty of Law at
the University of Sarajevo on 30 June 1959. He worked as court
and law clerk, and in 1963 he passed the qualifying exam for
judge. He worked as a case lawyer and in 1967 as the Head
of the legal department of the Institute for Social Insurance
of the Republic. He has worked as a judge at the Municipality
Court in Sarajevo (1971-1975); at the Commercial Court of
Bosnia and Herzegovina (1975-1980); and at the Supreme Court
of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1983 to 1996.
He also has been a member of several expert commissions. Mr.
Dekovic 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".
He published more than 200 legal articles /"Informator"
Zagreb, "Savremena praksa" Beograd, ZIPS and "Pravna
misao" Sarajevo/. As lecturer he has appeared on many
international and national symposiums. He was the President
of the Election Commission of the Republic (1987-1990). He
was a member of the Commission for Qualifying Exam for Judges,
the Commission for state officials and petty offence judges.
 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. He is a full Professor of Criminal Law in the Law
Faculty of the University of Catania since 1987; Legal Counsel
for international cooperation in criminal matters to the Italian
Minister of Interior; member of the Catania Bar, the Scientific
Council of the ISISC (Institute Superieur de Sciences Criminelles),
and the Scientific Council of the "Espana European Institute";
and President of the Centre for 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 several experts committees
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 from 1987-1989
and in 1992. He is author of several books, commentaries to
the Italian criminal code, and numerous publications in the
fields of criminal law, human rights law and international
law.
 Mr.
Andrew William 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
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 a 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 was 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 Bosnia and Herzegovina. He resigned
from the Constitutional Court in 1996. He also served as a
Deputy Prosecutor for the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
in 1997, but resigned in 1998.
 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. Presently he is the chair of international
law of Budapest University of Economics and Public Administration.
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 is the author of numerous 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 in the
UN Centre for Human Rights (1971-1996) as the Chief of the
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 Laws Degree and Ph.D. from Vienna
University and Columbia University in New York. At present
he is a Professor of Public 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 in Banja Luka, Mr. Pajić
worked as an Agent, the Director of legal and personnel sector
of the large Manufacturing Company in Brčko. In 1990, Mr.
Pajic was appointed as the Director of Legal Property Department
and Cadastral Survey in the Municipality of Brčko and as a
member of the Brčko Municipality Government. He performed
the duty of the Secretary of the Municipality Brčko. He was
also Mayor of Brčko from March 1994 until 1997. By the establishment
of the Brčko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina he was appointed
as a member of the multi-ethnic Government of the Brčko District,
and afterwards as the Vice-President of the Transitional Assembly
of the Brčko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
 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. From 1995 to 2001, Ms. Picard has
been working as a judge at the Tribunal de Grande Instance
de Paris. Since 2001, she is Vice President of the Tribunal
de Grande Instance de Nanterre.
 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 Internal 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 Brcko: and arbiter of foreign trade arbitration in the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Macedonia. He is permanently
employed as a Professor of Foreign Trade Law at the Law School
of the University of Banja Luka and is a judge of the Constitutional
Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has published a number
of professional and scientific works in the country and abroad.
He participated in preparation of several projects in the
field of establishment of duty free zones and foreign investments
in the Republika Srpska.
 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 Göttingen. 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
in 1977, 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
a member of the Commission for Supervision of Regulations
in Brčko District in accordance with the Arbitration Decision
for Brčko District and member of several expert groups for
reform of the judiciary in the FBiH and Bosnia and Herzegovina,
especially in criminal law. He is the author of several publications
in criminal law, constitutional law and local self-government
and human rights.
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