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TIM EICKE is Judge of the European Court of Human Rights elected in respect of the United Kingdom. A dual-British/German national, he studied law at the Universities of Passau and Dundee. Before taking up his current appointment, he was a barrister at Essex Court Chambers. He was a member of the Attorney General’s Panel of Counsel from 1999 until he was appointed a Queen's Counsel (now King’s Counsel) in 2011. While in practice, he regularly argued cases in the UK Supreme Court, the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights and acted both for claimants and governments across a whole range of issues including Public International Law, international human rights law, the law of the European Union as well as UK public and constitutional law. In 2017, he received an Honorary doctorate from the University of Dundee. Between October 2020 and October 2024, he was Vice-President of Section IV of the Court.