Visiting Professors Receive Key International Law Appointments

August 6, 2002

Two former visiting professors at Capital University Law School have been appointed to major international law courts. Professor Dr. Lech Garlicki has been elected judge in respect of Poland to the European Court of Human Rights and The Hon. Ivana Janu is among the first six ad-litem judges appointed to the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

Professor Dr. Lech Garlicki is a justice of the Polish Constitutional Court and a professor of law at the University of Warsaw, Poland. A scholar on comparative constitutional law issues, he was a distinguished visiting professor at Capital in 1999 and teaches Comparative Constitutional Law in Capital's Study Abroad Program in Greece. He was appointed to the European Court of Human Rights on June 26, 2002 to complete the term of the former Polish judge, Mr. Jerzy Makarczyk. The European Court of Human Rights was set up in 1959 in Strasbourg to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights. On November 1, 1998 a permanent Court was established, replacing the original two-tier system of a part-time Commission and Court.

The Hon. Ivana Janu is a justice and vice-president of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic. From 1974-1989 she was a commercial lawyer and later served in the Czech Parliament. She was a member of the Special Parliamentary Commission for drafting the New Constitution of the Czech Republic. Justice Janu has been a visiting professor at Capital Law School teaching Comparative Constitutional Law and Practice. Her appointment in September, 2001 as an ad litem judge to the Tribunal coincides with a significant increase in the level of trial activity. Justice Janu has been assigned to the following two cases: The Prosecutor v. Mitar Vasiljevic and The Prosecutor v. Radoslav Brdjanin and Milomir Talic.