Mailis Reps

Mailis Reps is a Member of the Estonian Parliament, Riigikogu, representing the Estonian Centre Party. She served as a Minister of Education and Research in Estonia between 2002-2003 and 2005-2007. She is a member of both the Cultural Affairs and European Union Affairs committees. Since 2000, she has lectured on international public law, human rights, and comparative constitutional law at University Nord in Tallinn and the Riga Graduate School of Law.

Mailis Reps graduated with a law degree from the Tallinn Baccalaureate School (University Nord), Estonia. As an exchange student she also studied in Holstebro, Denmark (Danish language, culture and politics), in Cambridge, England (English language), and at Kalamazoo College in Michigan, USA (economics and political economy). She defended her Master’s Degree of Law (LLM) in Comparative Constitutional Law at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and holds a second Master’s degree in European public affairs (MA) from Maastricht University, the Netherlands. She is completing her doctoral studies (LL.D) in international law at Uppsala University in Sweden.