Judges Organisation in Ottawa, Canada entitled “The Child as a Witness, its Legal Status in Latvian Legislature”. In May 2006, she chaired a panel at the Association's 8th Biennial Conference in Sydney, Australia which was organized on the topic of “An Independent Judiciary: Culture, Religion, Gender, Politics”. Since 2004, Ušacka has been a member of the European Group of Public Law. In the past, she has been a frequent attendee at conferences organized by the Center of Public Law, in Athens, Greece. She participated in and attended numerous conferences on international criminal law, including "The Legacy of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the Nuremberg Principles" in May 2017 in Nuremberg, Germany, the "50th Anniversary Celebration of Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg i. Br., Conference on Terrorism and Criminal Policy, in July 2016, and the Latvian Constitutional Court's Conference on "Judicial Activism of a Constitutional Court in a Democratic State", in Riga 2016. From 1996 to 2004 she was a member of the Council of Europe Venice Commission's Sub-Commission on Constitutional Justice. Ušacka is a member of the editorial board of the periodical "International Justice" and of the Scientific Council of Ius Novum, Lazarski University, Warsaw, Poland. References 1952 births Living people Judges of the Constitutional Court of Latvia International Criminal Court judges Moscow State University alumni University of Latvia alumni Academic staff of the University of Latvia University of Notre Dame alumni Constitutional court women judges Latvian women judges Latvian judges of international courts and tribunals 20th-century Latvian judges 21st-century Latvian judges 20th-century women judges 21st-century women judges