Members
The members are "senior academics, particularly in the fields of constitutional or international law, supreme or constitutional court judges or members of national parliaments". Acting on the Commission in their individual capacity, the members are appointed for four years by the participating countries. The current members include Ugo Mifsud Bonnici (Professor of Law and former President of Malta), Jean-Claude Colliard (Chancellor of University Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne, former member of the Constitutional Council), Christoph Grabenwarter (Judge at the Constitutional Court of Austria), Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem (Former Judge, Federal Constitutional Court of Germany), Jan Erik Helgesen (Professor at University of Oslo), Gret Haller (Senior Lecturer at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany, former President of the Swiss Parliament), Klemen Jaklic (Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, Harvard University), Jeffrey Jowell (Professor of Law and former Dean of University College London), Evgeni Tanchev (President of the Constitutional Court of Bulgaria), Kaarlo Tuori (Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Helsinki), Pieter Van Dijk (State Councillor, Chair of the Constitutional Law Committee, and former Judge of the European Court of Human Rights), Jan Velaers (Professor at University of Antwerp) and other notable academics and judges.
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