Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected the new judge in respect of Montenegro at the European Court of Human Rights. With a large majority (101 of 160 votes cast), Ms Ivana Jelić was elected. She will succeed her predecessor Nebojša Vučinić within three months.
The new judge comes from academia and was until now associate professor of the Faculty of Law and Faculty of Political Science of the University of Montenegro. She has wide experience in the international human rights system, most notably as a member (since 2015) and Vice President (since 2017) of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, which supervises the ICCPR. From the perspective of coherence of international human rights law, this election may therefore offer opportunities. I wish her all the best in her new position!
