The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) has elected Iulia Antoanella Motoc as Romania's judge at the European Court for Human Rights (ECHR).

Elected with majority of votes (132), Motoc will be a judge of the ECHR for a term of nine years, expected to start on December 17, 2013, or no later than three months after her election.

Iulia Motoc was born in 1967 in Timisoara, Romania. She has been a judge in the Constitutional Court of Romania since 2010 and a professor of International Law and Human Rights since 2002 and European Law since 2007 at the University of Bucharest.

She has also been also vice-president of the Human Rights Committee with the United Nations since 2012 and member of the Human Rights Committee since 2006.

Motoc holds a PhD in Moral Philosophy from the University of Bucharest and a Doctorate in International Public Law from the University Paul Cezanne Aix-Marseilles.

The European Court of Human Rights is an international court set up in 1959. It rules on individual or State applications alleging violations of the civil and political rights set out in the European Convention on Human Rights.

The Court is based in Strasbourg, in the Human Rights Building designed by the British architect Lord Richard Rogers in 1994.

Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com