Juliane Kokott is the German Advocate General at the

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''(CJEU)'' and

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at the

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Education

Kokott studied

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Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...

and

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. Subsequent to her studies, she earned the academic title of

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(LL.M.) at the American University ''(AU)''

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, while being on a

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of the

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. There she also worked as an Assistant to

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, Judge at the

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''(ICJ)'' and former president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. She worked as a judicial intern at the ''Landgericht Heidelberg'' and the

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''(Bundesverfassungsgericht)'' in

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, whilst also being employed at the ''

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'', Heidelberg. She concluded her

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''(Dr. iur. utr.)'' at the

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with the dissertation titled ''"The Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights" ("Das interamerikanische System zum Schutz der Menschenrechte")''. Kokott also earned a diploma from the

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. As bearer of the

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of the Max Planck Society for junior scientists, she concluded another study visit at Harvard Law School and was awarded the academic degree of

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''(S.J.D.)''.

Career

After her habilitation at the University of Heidelberg, Kokott taught at the Universities of

Mannheim Mannheim (; Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (german: Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's ...

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and

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. From 2000 until her call to the

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, she headed the Institute for

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and international business law at the

, Switzerland with the correspondent

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ship. On 7 October 2003, Kokott succeeded Siegbert Alber as Advocate General at the

. She is the third woman in the history of the

to hold this position.

Other activities

European Law Students' Association The European Law Students' Association (ELSA) is an international, independent, non-political, non-profit, non-governmental organisation run by and for law students. ELSA-activities comprise a large variety of academic and professional events t ...

(ELSA) – Germany Chapter, Member of the Advisory Board * Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Member of the Board of TrusteesBoard of Trustees
Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance. *

American Society of International Law The American Society of International Law (ASIL), founded in 1906, was chartered by the United States Congress in 1950 to foster the study of international law, and to promote the establishment and maintenance of international relations on the ba ...

(ASIL), Member * German Women Lawyers Association (DJB), Member

Personal life

Kokott is married and mother to six children.

Publications

* Juliane Kokott: ''Art. 4, 12a, 16, 17a, 87a, 87b, und 116'', in: Sachs (ed.): ''Grundgesetz Kommentar'', 1.-5. Edition, Munich: C.H. Beck 1996, 1999, 2002, 2007, 2008, . * Juliane Kokott et al.: ''Grundzüge des Völkerrechts '', 3. Edition, Heidelberg: UTB 2003, . * Juliane Kokott: ''Art. 281, 282, 296-299, 301-307, 311-314 EGV'', in: Streinz (ed.), ''EUV/EGV – Vertrag über die Europäische Union und Vertrag zur Gründung der Europäischen Gemeinschaft - Kommentar'', Munich: C.H. Beck 2003, . * Juliane Kokott / Hartmut Graßl et al.: ''Welt im Wandel: Energiewende zur Nachhaltigkeit'' - Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen (WBGU) 2003. * Juliane Kokott et al.: ''Grundzüge des Völkerrechts'', 1.-3. Edition, Heidelberg: C.F. Müller Verlag 1988, 2000, 2003, . * Juliane Kokott: ''Gleichheitssatz und Diskriminierungsverbote in der Rechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts'', in: Badura / Dreier (eds.), ''Festschrift 50 Jahre Bundesverfassungsgericht'', Bd. 2: ''Klärung und Fortbildung des Verfassungsrechts'', Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2001, pp. 127–162. * Juliane Kokott: ''Beweislastverteilung und Prognoseentscheidungen bei der Inanspruchnahme von Grundrechten und internationalen Menschenrechten'', Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, Bd. 110, 445 p., Berlin/Heidelberg/New York: Springer Verlag 1993, . * Juliane Kokott: ''Das interamerikanische System zum Schutz der Menschenrechte - The Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights'', Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, Bd. 92, 166 p., Berlin/Heidelberg/New York: Springer Verlag 1986, .

References

External links

* http://www.julianekokott.de - Homepage of Juliane Kokott (incl. complete list of publications) * https://web.archive.org/web/20081206005846/http://curia.europa.eu/en/ - Homepage of the ECJ * http://de.scientificcommons.org/juliane_kokott - Scientific Publications by Juliane Kokott {{DEFAULTSORT:Kokott, Juliane 1957 births Living people Washington College of Law alumni Heidelberg University alumni Harvard Law School alumni Advocates General of the European Court of Justice Academic staff of the University of St. Gallen German officials of the European Union German expatriates in Switzerland