Ineta Ziemele (born 12 February 1970) is

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n jurist and judge at the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia since 2015. On 8 May 2017 she was elected to be the President of the Constitutional Court. In 1995, she was a founding member of the Latvian Section of the

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. From 27 April 2005 to 2015 she was a judge at the European Court of Human Rights(ECHR). In September 2012 she became President of the Court's Fourth Section. As a judge of the ECHR, she was cited in an NGO report for possible conflicts of interest. The report shows that she seated in six cases where the International Commission of Jurists was involved and others cases where the

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(OSJI) and other relatives organizations were involved (the OSJI is cited because she is a professor at the

Riga Graduate School of Law The Riga Graduate School of Law (RGSL) ( lv, Rīgas Juridiskā augstskola) in Riga, Latvia is an autonomous law school in Baltic region offering Bachelor, Masters and Doctoral studies. It was established in 1998 through an international agreeme ...

, funded by the

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-Latvia) She graduated from the law faculty of the University of Latvia in 1993 and continued her studies in

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, where she earned a master's degree in International law. She went on to earn her doctoral degree from University of Cambridge at Wolfson College. She has worked as an adviser for the Foreign Affairs Committee of the

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and for the

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. She also has been a professor at the University of Latvia and the

. On 2 September 2020 she was appointed to be a judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union for the period from 7 September 2020 to 6 October 2024.

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Ineta Ziemele
at ''Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia'' 1970 births Living people Alumni of Wolfson College, Cambridge Constitutional court women judges Judges of the Constitutional Court of Latvia Judges of the European Court of Human Rights Latvian judges of international courts and tribunals Latvian women judges University of Latvia alumni Academic staff of the University of Latvia 21st-century Latvian judges 21st-century women judges {{europe-law-bio-stub