CEDH · PRESS;GENERAL;ENG — 2 juillet 2009

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .sFE10DC93 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .s40F41F73 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:right } .s8229ABDD { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:12pt; text-align:center } .sDF790F1E { margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .s7ED160F0 { text-decoration:none } .s3DC36BA9 { font-family:Arial; text-decoration:underline; color:#0069d6 } .sCB9E0544 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:left } .sC7EAD8B { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline } .s4DDA3AA3 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic }   540 02.07.2009   Press release issued by the Registrar   Election at the European Court of Human Rights     The European Court of Human Rights has elected Renate Jaeger (a German national) as Vice-President of one of its Sections, with effect from 1 July 2009.   Judge Jaeger was born on 30 December 1940 in Darmstadt and studied law at the Universities of Cologne, Munich and Lausanne. She was judge at the Social Court in Düsseldorf between 1968 and 1974, judge at the Social Court of Appeal of North Rhine-Westphalia between 1974 and 1987 and, between 1987 and 1994, judge at the Federal Social Court. After holding the post of judge at the Constitutional Court of North Rhine-Westphalia between 1988 and 1994, Mrs Jaeger was judge at the Federal Constitutional Court until 2004, when she was elected to the European Court of Human Rights.   The European Court of Human Rights is composed of a judge elected in respect of each of the 47 States that have ratified the European Convention on Human Rights. The Court is divided into five judicial Sections and each judge is a member of one of the Sections. The plenary Court elects the Presidents of Sections for a three-year term, and each Section also elects a Vice-President for a three-year period. Chambers of seven judges are formed within the Sections; the Court also sits as a Grand Chamber of 17 judges.     ***   Further information about the Court can be found on its Internet site ( http://www.echr.coe.int ).   Press contacts Céline Menu-Lange (téléphone : 00 33 (0)3 90 21 58 77) Stefano Piedimonte (téléphone : 00 33 (0)3 90 21 42 04) Tracey Turner-Tretz (téléphone : 00 33 (0)3 88 41 35 30) Kristina Pencheva-Malinowski (téléphone: 00 33 (0)3 88 41 35 70) Frédéric Dolt (téléphone : 00 33 (0)3 90 21 53 39)   The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg by the Council of Europe Member States in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights.