Françoise Tulkens

Baroness
Françoise Tulkens
Vice-President of the
European Court of Human Rights
In office
1 February 2011 – 2012
Serving with Sir Nicolas Bratza
PresidentJean-Paul Costa
Preceded byChristos Rozakis
Judge of the
European Court of Human Rights
in respect of Belgium
In office
1998–2012
Personal details
Born (1942-09-12) 12 September 1942
Brussels, Belgium
ProfessionLawyer

Françoise, Baroness Tulkens (born 12 September 1942) is a Belgian lawyer and expert in criminal and penal law, and former vice-president of the European Court of Human Rights. She served as a member of the Court since 1998, Section President since 2007, and vice-president from February 2011 until her term ended in 2012.

Early life

Tulkens was born in Brussels, the capital of Belgium.[1] She studied law, earning a doctorate in 1965 and practising at the Bar until 1968, when she was appointed Research Fellow with the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique).[2] She was awarded the agrégation (higher education teaching qualification) in 1976 and the same year took up a post as Professor of Law in the Université catholique de Louvain[2] (French-speaking Catholic University of Louvain at Louvain-la-Neuve), where she remained until her appointment as a permanent judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.[1]

Career

Alongside her post at the Université catholique de Louvain, Tulkens served as Chairwoman of the Scientific Committee of the European Law-making Research Group (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris) from 1993 to 1998 and editor-in-chief of the journal, Revue internationale de droit pénal, from 1994 to 1998. From 1996 to 1997, she was an Expert for the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture.[1] She has also been a visiting professor at the Universities of Geneva, Ottawa, Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne) and Rennes.[1][2]

On 1 November 1998, Tulkens became a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Belgium. She was elected a Section President in 2007 and on 1 February 2011 became one of two vice-presidents of the Court, along with the British judge, Sir Nicolas Bratza, and under French President Jean-Paul Costa.[1] She retired from the European Court in September 2012 and was appointed a member of the Human Rights Advisory Panel[3] of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo. In 2019, Tulkens was appointed to the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom, chaired by Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury.[4]

In 2021, Tulkens presided over the Turkey Tribunal, a citizens' tribunal on Turkey's human rights record that sat in Geneva from 20 to 24 September 2021 with a panel of six members. The tribunal delivered its opinion on 24 September 2021 and published a motivated final opinion on 7 October 2021.[5].


Other positions

Tulkens chaired the board of governors of the King Baudouin Foundation from 2012 to 2016, and over the same period served on the United Nations Human Rights Advisory Panel for Kosovo.[6] From 2013 to 2018 she was a member of the scientific committee of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.[7].


Honours

  • Commander of the Order of the Crown.
  • Conferred the noble title of Baroness in the Belgian nobility.
  • Honorary doctorates from the universities of Geneva, Limoges, Ottawa, Ghent, Liège

and Brighton.[6]


References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Judges of the Court". European Court of Human Rights. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  2. 1 2 3 "Honorary Doctorate for Françoise Tulkens". University of Ottawa. 31 January 2003. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  3. ↑ "The Human Rights Advisory Panel". UNMIK DPI. Archived from the original on 21 January 2013. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
  4. ↑ "IBA - IBAHRI Secretariat to the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom". www.ibanet.org. Retrieved 2020-12-16.
  5. ↑ "Motivated final opinion, Turkey Tribunal" (PDF). Turkey Tribunal. 7 October 2021. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
  6. 1 2 "Françoise Tulkens". Clooney Foundation for Justice. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
  7. ↑ "Prof. Em. Dr. Françoise Barones Tulkens". Turkey Tribunal. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
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