Julia Laffranque is an Estonia

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, judge

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, legal scientist

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 (doctor iuris). She has been a judge of the European Court of Human Rights

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 since 2011, earlier a justice at the Supreme Court of Estonia

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 and professor of European law at the University of Tartu

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Education

• 1997 - graduation of the Law Faculty of Tartu University (including studies at the Law Faculty of Hamburg University 1994-1995);
• 1998 - Masters degree in law (magistra legum, LL.M.) of the Law Faculty of Münster University, Germany, summa cum laude;
• doctoral studies at the University of Kiel and the European University Institute in Florence;
• 2003 - Doctoral degree in jurisprudence (doctor iuris, dr. iur.) University of Tartu.

Career

• 1996 - 2004 - Ministry of Justice of Estonia: head of the EU law and foreign relations division, since 2002 Deputy Secretary General on Legislative Drafting;
• 2004 - 2010 - justice at the Supreme Court of Estonia (member of the administrative law chamber), 2007 - 2010 member of the constitutional review chamber of the Supreme Court;
• 2006 - 2011 docent of European Union Law at the Law Faculty of Tartu University, later professor of European law at the same faculty;
• Dr. iur. Laffranque has completed traineeships at the Legal Service of the European Commission, at the Ministries of Justice in Sweden and France, the Supreme Administrative Court of Germany, and the Conseil d'Etat of France; she has also served as an ad hoc judge at the European Court of Human Rights;
• since 2010 - member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration
• 2006 - 2008 - vice-chair of the Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE) of the Council of Europe;
• 2008 - 2010 - chair of the Consultative Council of European Judges;
• since 2004 - president of the European Law Society of Estonia (FIDE Estonia); 2010-2012 president of the International Federation for Europan Law (FIDE)
• since 2004 - member of the board of the Estonian Academic Law Society;
• 2000 - 2004 - member of the board of the policy think-tank "Praxis."

Books

• Euroopa Liit ja Euroopa Ühendus. Institutsioonid ja õigus (European Union and European Community. Institutions and Law. Sisekaitseakadeemia 1999)
• Euroopa Kohtu Lahendid I ja II. Kogumiku koostaja ja Euroopa Kohut tutvustava osa author (Case law of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Estonian I and II. Compiler of the book and author of the introductory part about the ECJ. Juura 2001 and 2003)
• Prantsuse -eesti-prantsuse õigussõnaraamat (French-Estonian-French legal dictionary (together with Rodolphe Laffranque. Juura 2002)
• Eelotsuse küsimine Euroopa Kohtult (Handbook for Estonian judges about asking preliminary references from the ECJ. Eesti Õiguskeskus 2005)
• Euroopa Liidu õigussüsteem ja Eesti õiguse koht selles (The Legal System of European Union and Estonian Law. Juura 2006).
• Dr. iur. Laffranque has published several articles in Estonian, English, German and French languages in Estonian and international legal journals

Honours

• 2004 - Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite of France.
• 2005 - Estonian White Cross, fourth category.

Personal life

Amateur actress of the Vilde theatre in Tartu, Estonia since 2006 and of the Tagora thatre at Council of Europe in Strasbourg since 2011.
She is married to French

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 jurist Rodolphe Laffranque, has two sons and is the daughter of writer Maimu Berg and of writer/psychiatrist

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 Vaino Vahing

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