The judge of the Constitutional Court resigns

2024-09-19 16:36:00, Aktualitet CNA

The judge of the Constitutional Court resigns

Members of the Constitutional Court

Constitutional Judge Elsa Toska has resigned. With the departure of Toska, the court remains with 8 members out of the 9 that it has in its organics.

This situation is expected to complicate decision-making, since in case of a decision-making with 4 to 4 votes, the constitutionalist cannot stop with a decision.

The motives of this sudden resignation are still unknown.

Who is Elsa Toska?

Born on 05.06.1976 in Kavaje. Graduated in 2000 at the Faculty of Law at the University of Tirana. In 2005 he received the title "Master" in European Studies at the Rectorate of Tirana, while in 2012 he received the scientific degree "Doctor of Legal Sciences" at the Faculty of Law of the University of Tirana. In the years 2000-2006 she worked as an assistant commissioner/legal expert at the institution of the People's Advocate and in the years 2006-2007 she practiced the profession of lawyer.

The judge of the Constitutional Court resigns

During the period 2007-2019, she worked as a legal advisor at the Constitutional Court. Since 2005, she has been a lecturer of Administrative and Constitutional Law at various universities, as well as a human rights trainer at home and abroad.

Since 2010, she has been involved as an external legal consultant in a number of projects of international organizations, related to human rights and the judiciary. He was part of the experts in 3 working groups during the Justice Reform, namely for Constitutional Amendments, Changes in the Law on the Constitutional Court and the drafting of the draft law for the President of the Republic.

She is the author of several scientific publications in the form of manuals or monographs, where the monograph "On constitutional control of administrative activity, according to the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court" can be singled out, as well as co-author of the book "Control over public administration", 2013, approved academic text from the Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, Tirana.

Since 2017, she has been an expert in continuing education at the School of Magistracy. She is the author of several scientific articles and a participant in several scientific conferences inside and outside the country on issues of constitutional justice.

In November 2019, she was appointed a member of the Constitutional Court./ Weblam