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This photograph taken on September 27, 2023 shows an interior view of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), in Strasbourg.
Justice – He will take his new function at the end of May. French judge Mattias Guyomar was elected this Monday, April 28, president of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Monday, April 28, following judge Slovenian Marko Bosnjak.
Enarch, former president of chamber on the Council of State, Mattias Guyomar, 56, has been a judge at the ECHR since June 2020, and chaired one of the five sections since May 2024. He has been elected for a mandate of three years.
He will succeed on May 30 at Marko Bosnjak who arrived at the end of his mandate as a nine years judge and chaired the institution since July 2024.
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Mattias Guyomar spent his entire career in the Council of State, where he was appointed rapporteur in the litigation section in 1996, before becoming government commissioner in 2002 (appellation changed in « rapporteur public » in 2009).
-The third French judge to access the post
He was then a judge assessor and then, from 2016 to 2020, president of the 10th chamber, which takes care of the disputes linked in particular to culture, public freedoms and overseas.
At the same time, he carried out various functions, in particular that of general rapporteur of the High Council for Integration between 1999 and 2002, of Secretary General of the Survening Committee, from 1998 to 2020, or a public rapporteur at the Conflict Tribunal, from 2002 to 2011.
He also assumed various missions in teaching, notably at Paris-Sud XI University (which has become a Paris-Saclay University) and at Paris II Panthéon-Assas University, as associate professor of public law.
Mattias Guyomar is the third French judge to access the Presidency of the ECHR. Jean-Paul Costa (2007-2011) and René Cassin (1965-1968) assumed this function before him.
The ECHR, which sits in Strasbourg, is an international tribunal responsible for sanctioning violations of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights, a text signed by 46 states gathered within the Council of Europe.
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