Press and Information Division
PRESS RELEASE No 85/03
7 October 2003
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NEW MEMBERS OF THE COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES AND OF
THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
FORMAL SITTING ON 6 OCTOBER 2003
By that decision, the terms of office of Mr Claus Gulmann, Mrs Fidelma
Macken,
Mr Allan Rosas, Mr Romain Schintgen and Mr Vassilios Skouris are renewed. The
terms of office of Advocates General Francis Jacobs and Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer are
also renewed.
The Representatives of the Governments of the Member States also appointed
Mr Koen Lenaerts
and Ms Rosario Silva de Lapuerta as Judges of the Court of Justice
and Ms Juliane Kokott and Mr Luis Miguel Poiares Pessoa Maduro as Advocates
General.
At its meeting of 24 September 2003, the Conference of the Representatives of
the Governments of the Member States appointed Mr Franklin Dehousse as a Judge
at the Court of First Instance for the period from 7 October 2003
to 31 August 2004.
A formal sitting took place yesterday, Monday 6 October 2003, on the occasion
of the end of the term of office and departure of Mr Gil
Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias, President of the Court of Justice, of Mr Melchior Wathelet,
Judge, and of Advocates General Siegbert Alber and Jean Mischo, and the entry
into office of the new Members.
I. Curricula vitae of the new Members of the Court of Justice
Koen Lenaerts
Born 1954; lic.iuris, Ph.D. in Law (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven); Master of Laws, Master
in Public Administration (Harvard University); Lecturer (1979 to 1983) subsequently Professor of European
Law, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (since 1983); Law clerk at the Court of Justice
(1984 to 1985); Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges (1984 to 1989);
Member of the Brussels Bar (1986 to 1989); Visiting Professor at the Harvard
Law School (1989); Judge at the Court of First Instance of the European
Communities from 25 September 1989 to 6 October 2003; Judge at the Court
of Justice from 7 October 2003.
Rosario Silva de Lapuerta
Born 1954; Bachelor of Laws (Universidad Complutense, Madrid); Abogado del Estado in Malaga;
Abogado del Estado at the Legal Service of the Ministry of Transport, Tourism
and Communication and, subsequently, at the Legal Service of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs; Abogado del Estado-Head of the State Legal Service dealing with the Court
of Justice of the European Communities and Deputy Director-General of the Community and
International Legal Assistance Department (Ministry of Justice); Member of the Commission reflection group
on the future of the Community judicial system; Head of the Spanish delegation
in the "Friends of the Presidency" Group with regard to the reform of
the Community judicial system in the Treaty of Nice and of the Council
ad hoc working party on the Court of Justice; Professor of Community law
at the Diplomatic School. Co-director of the journal "Noticias de la Unión Europea";
Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Communities since 7 October
2003.
Juliane Kokott
Born 1957; Law studies (Universities of Bonn and Geneva); Law degree (Washington University);
Doctor in Laws (Heidelberg University, 1985; Harvard University,1990); visiting professor at the University
of Berkeley (1991); Professor of German and foreign public law, international law and
European law at the University of Düsseldorf (1994); deputy judge at the International
Conciliation and Arbitration Court of the Organisation for the Security and Cooperation in
Europe (OSCE); Deputy Chair of the Federal Government's Advisory Council on Global Change
(WBGU, 1996); Professor of International Law, International Business Law and European Law in
the Law Faculty at the University of St Gallen (1999); Director of the
Institute for European and International Business Law at the University of St Gallen
(2000); Deputy Director of the Master of Business Law programme at the University
of St Gallen (2001); Advocate General at the Court of Justice since 7
October 2003.
Luís Miguel Poiares Pessoa Maduro
Born 1967; degree in law (University of Lisbon, 1990); assistant lecturer (European University
Institute, 1991); Doctor in Laws (European University Institute, Florence, 1996); visiting professor (College
of Europe, Natolin; Ortega y Gasset Institute, Madrid; Catholic University, Portugal; Institute of
European Studies, Macao); Professor (Autonomous University, Lisbon, 1997); Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar (Harvard
University, 1998); co-director of the Academy of International Trade Law; co-editor (Hart Series
on European Law and Integration, European Law Journal) and member of the editorial
board of several law journals; Advocate General at the Court of Justice since
7 October 2003.
II. Curriculum vitae of the new Judge at the Court of First Instance
Franklin Dehousse
Born 1959; Law degree (University of Liege, 1981); research fellow (Fonds national de
la recherche scientifique); legal advisor to the Chamber of Representatives; Doctor in Laws
(University of Strasbourg, 1990); Professor (Universities of Liege and Strasbourg, College of Europe,
Institut royal supérieur de Défense, Université de Montesquieu, Bordeaux; Collège Michel Servet of
the Universities of Paris; Faculties of Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur); Special Representative
of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Director of European Studies of the Royal
Institute of International Relations; assesseur at the Council of State; consultant to the
European Commission; member of the Internet Observatory; chief editor of Studia Diplomatica; Judge
at the Court of First Instance since 7 October 2003.
III. The curricula vitae of the Members whose terms of office have been
renewed may be found at the CURIA site at: Http://curia.eu.int/en/instit/presentationfr/index.htm
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