Sir Nicolas Dušan Bratza (born 3 March 1945) is a British lawyer and a former President of the European Court of Human Rights.

Bratza was born on 3 March 1945 and educated at Wimbledon College, a state-maintained Jesuit school for boys.

He then spent two years teaching at the University of Pennsylvania Law School before being called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1969, where he was a Hardwicke and Droop Scholar.

He was elected to a second and final term as a judge of the court (ending 31 October 2012)[1] and re-elected as a section president in 2004.

It marked a return to the East London charity, where he had volunteered at its Free Legal Advice Centre during the late 1970s and early 1980s.