Ninon Colneric (born 1948) is the first female German judge at the European Court of Justice (2000-2006).

Career

Born in Oer-Erkenschwick, she studied legal science in

Tübingen Tübingen (, , Swabian: ''Dibenga'') is a traditional university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, and developed on both sides of the Neckar and Ammer rivers. about one in three ...

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and

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. Following a period of academic research in London, she was awarded a doctorate in law by the

University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

. She was authorised, by the

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, to teach labour law,

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and social law. She was professor ad interim at the faculty of law of the universities of Frankfurt, and Bremen. She was a judge at the Labour Court (''Arbeitsgericht'')

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(1986-1989). She was president of the Landesarbeitsgericht

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(1989-2000). She collaborated, as an expert, on the European Expertise Service (

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) project for the reform of the labour law of

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(1994 to 1995). She was an honorary Professor at the

in labour law, specifically in European labour law. From 2000 until 2006 she was the first female German judge at the European Court of Justice. From 2008 until 2011 she became Co-Dean at the China-EU School of Law, a cooperative project between a consortium of European universities and the

China University of Political Science and Law China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL; simplified Chinese: 中国政法大学; traditional Chinese: 中國政法大學; pinyin: ''Zhōngguó Zhèngfǎ Dàxué'', abbr. 法大, ''Fǎ Dà'') is a research university established in 1952 ...

. Since 2018 she is member of the Whistleblower-Netzwerk e.V., and since 2020 a member of the advisory board of the Institute for Secular Law.

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