Biography

Mr Madise graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tartu in 1998 and obtained a master’s degree in law (magister iuris) from the same university in 2001. He also studied at the University of Poitiers in France in 1994–1995, where he obtained a licence en droit. From 1995 to 1999, he worked in the Public Law Department of the Estonian Ministry of Justice. From 1999 to 2002, he served as Adviser to the Constitutional Committee of the Riigikogu (Estonian Parliament) and Head of its Secretariat. From 2002 to 2013, he served as a judge in the Administrative Law Chamber of the Tallinn Court of Appeal.

Mr Madise has contributed to the drafting of Estonia’s principal statutes governing administrative law and is a co-author of the commented editions of the Constitution of the Republic of Estonia. He has lectured on European Union law and administrative court procedure and served as a member of the Judges’ Examination Commission. He has been a member of the General Court’s committee on the Rules of Procedure since 2019 and has chaired the committee since 2024.