Ülle Madise (

née The birth name is the name of the person given upon their birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name or to the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a births registe ...

Anton; born 11 December 1974) is an Estonian lawyer who has served as

Chancellor of Justice The Chancellor of Justice is a government official found in some northern European countries, broadly responsible for supervising the lawfulness of government actions. History In 1713, the Swedish King Charles XII, preoccupied with fighting t ...

since 2015. Madise is the daughter of former member of the

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Tõnu Anton. In December 2021 Madise was re-appointed by the

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for a second term as Chancellor of Justice.

Education

Madise graduated in 1993 from Tartu Descartes School and in 1998 received a ''

cum laude Latin honors are a system of Latin phrases used in some colleges and universities to indicate the level of distinction with which an academic degree has been earned. The system is primarily used in the United States. It is also used in some Sout ...

'' from the

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, Faculty of Law.

Biography

Her father is Tõnu Anton, a former member of the

and signatory of the ratification of the Estonian restoration of Independence. Ülle Madise is also a professor of constitutional law at the

. Madise is the daughter of former member of the

Tõnu Anton. In December 2021 Madise was re-appointed by the

for a second term as Chancellor of Justice.Turovski, Marcus
Riigikogu appoints Ülle Madise for second justice chancellor term.
''ERR News.'' Retrieved 15 December 2021 In Estonia, the justice chancellor is not a political appointment, but is appointed by the

for a seven year term. The chancellor is "to act as independent supervisor of the basic principles of the Constitution of Estonia and the protector of individual human and social rights, human dignity and equality, and the rule of law". From 2010 she served five years on the Board of Governors of the Estonian Academy of Arts. She was a member of the European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance, served on the Estonian Council of the Ethics of Public Officials, the European Region of International Ombudsman Institute (IOI) and the IOI World Board. As chancellor of justice, Madise has commented on plans for surveillance cameras, the publishing of details from surveillance phone calls of people not accused of a crime, intervened in the issuing of digital identification cards, and called the Estonian car tax law illegal. Madise was the host of two regular radio science shows on Estonian radio station

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between 2009 and 2018, and spends her leisure time watching nature documentaries.

Work

* 1997–1998 Specialist, Department of Public Law,

Ministry of Justice A justice ministry, ministry of justice, or department of justice, is a ministry or other government agency in charge of the administration of justice. The ministry or department is often headed by a minister of justice (minister for justice in a ...

* 1998–2002 Head of the Department of Public Law, Ministry of Justice * 2001–2005 Lecturer at the University of Tartu * 2002 Parliamentary Adviser to the Minister for Justice * 2002–2005 Adviser to the Constitutional Committee of the

* 2005–2009 Teacher at the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance,

Tallinn University of Technology Established in 1918, Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech; ) is the only Institute of technology, technical university in Estonia. TalTech, in the capital city of Tallinn, is a university for engineering, business, public administration a ...

* 2006–2010 Member of the Estonian National Electoral Committee * 2009–2015 Legal adviser to the

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* 2009–2011 Professor of Public Law at the Tallinn University of Technology * From 2011, professor of constitutional law at the University of Tartu, Department of Public Law, Department of State and Administrative Law * From 2015, The Chancellor of Justice of Estonia

References

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