María Elósegui
María Elósegui | |
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| Judge at the European Court of Human Rights | |
| Assuming office 2018 | |
| Succeeding | Luis López Guerra |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 December 1957 |
| Citizenship | Spanish |
| Alma mater | Universidad de Navarra |
| Occupation | Jurist, professor, judge, philosopher |
María Elósegui Itxaso (born, 7 December 1957, San Sebastián) is a Spanish jurist, philosopher and Professor of Philosophy of Law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Zaragoza. She was appointed in January 2018 a judge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Education
Maria Elósegui graduated with a Ph.D from the University of Navarra in 1987 and followed up on her studies with a second master in philosophy at the University of Glasgow in 1989.[1] Following this, she studied law at the University of Sain-Louis, Brussels, Belgium from where she graduated with a MSc in 1994.[1] She obtained a Doctor of Juridical Science from the University of Navarra in 2002.[1]
Professional career
Between 1982 and 1988 she taught philosophy in Bilbao, and from 1988 to 1989 she researched at the Glasgow University.[1] She became a Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Zaragoza in 1994 and lectured until 2018.[1] She was also assigned as a member of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) between 2013 and 2017.[2] Since 2018, she has been the representative of Spain in the European Court of Human Rights,[3] succeeding Luis López Guerra.[4]
Controversies
In 2018, she partly dissented with the rest of the ruling judges at the ECHR and stated in her opinion that an administrative or civil sanction against the public protest of the Pussy Riot would not be an undue interference with the applicants' freedom of expression.[5][6] Pussy Riot had performed a protest performance at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow in 2012 against the return to power of Vladimir Putin.[7] In her separate opinion, Elósegui concurred with the majority of judges that there had been several violations of the ECHR based on the Internet ban of the video, and that the criminal sanction applied to the Pussy Riot was excessive.[5]
Publications
During her career, she published numerous books concerning the rule of law, except the one about the Peine el Viento.[2]
Personal life
Elósegui is the daughter of engineer José María Elósegui and a sister to the film director and documentary filmmaker José María Elósegui, who in 2008 released the documentary about the Peine del Viento,[8] a well known sculpture in San Sebastian. Maria Elosegui also wrote a book about the sculpture to which her father collaborated as an engineer.[2] Her sister, Dr. Lucía Elósegui, is the transplant coordinator to the University Hospital of San Sebastian.[9] She is also a member of the Roman Catholic group Opus Dei.[10]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Composition of the European Court of Human Rights". European Court of Human Rights. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c Mujika, Mikel. "Una donostiarra hace historia como primera jueza española en Estrasburgo". www.noticiasdegipuzkoa.eus. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "PACE elects María Elósegui Ichaso judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Spain". Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. January 2018. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ AGENCIAS, RTVE es / (2018-01-23). "Elósegui, primera juez española del Tribunal Europeo de DD.HH | RTVE". RTVE.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-10-31.
- ^ a b CASE OF MARIYA ALEKHINA AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA, (no. 38004/12) 17 July 2018, PARTLY DISSENTING OPINION OF JUDGE ELÓSEGUI
- ^ Periódico, El (2018-08-30). "Polémico voto particular de la jueza Elósegui en el Tribunal de Estrasburgo". elperiodico (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-10-31.
- ^ "Russians rally support for Orthodox church over Pussy Riot controversy". The Guardian. Associated Press. 2012-04-22. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
- ^ "Fallece José María Elósegui, aventurero y realizador de documentales por los cinco continentes. Noticias de Gipuzkoa". 2015-12-12. Archived from the original on 2015-12-12. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
- ^ "Euskadi aporta 1.500 donantes de médula en un año al registro mundial". El Diario Vasco (in European Spanish). 2017-01-27. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
- ^ Beni, Elisa (2018-01-27). "La jueza Elósegui". ElDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-10-31.
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