Civil Service Tribunal
Born in 1946; law studies (Master of Arts, Oxford University, 1967; Master of Laws, University College London, 1969); Lecturer, University College London (1967-73); Barrister (London, 1972-74); Administrator/ Principal Administrator, European Court of Human Rights (1974-90); Visiting Professor at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada (1988); Head of Personnel, Council of Europe (1990-93); Head of Division (1993-95), Deputy Registrar (1995-2001), Registrar of the European Court of Human Rights (2001 to September 2005); President of the Civil Service Tribunal from 6 October 2005 to 6 October 2011.
Born 1956; law graduate (Free University of Brussels, 1979); Special Diploma in International Law (Brussels, 1980); Doctor of Laws (1989); Head of the Legal Service of the Société anonyme du canal et des installations maritimes de Bruxelles (1979-84); official of the Commission of the European Communities (Directorate-General for Social Affairs, 1984-88); member of the Legal Service of the Commission of the European Communities (1988-94); Legal Secretary at the Court of Justice of the European Communities (1994-2005); Lecturer at the University of Charleroi (international and European social law, 1989-91), at the University of Mons Hainault (European law, 1991-97), at the University of Liège (European civil service law, 1989-91; institutional law of the European Union, 1995-2005; European social law, 2004-05) and, since 2006, at the Free University of Brussels (institutional law of the European Union); numerous publications on the subject of European social law and institutional law of the European Union; Judge at the Civil Service Tribunal from 6 October 2005 to 31 August 2016; President of the Civil Service Tribunal from 7 October 2011 to 31 August 2016
Born 1952; graduate of the Helsinki School of Economics and of the Faculty of Law of the University of Helsinki; Legal Secretary at the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland; General Secretary to the Committee for Reform of Legal Protection in Public Administration; Principal Administrator at the Supreme Administrative Court; General Secretary to the Committee for Reform of Administrative Litigation, Counsellor in the Legislative Drafting Department of the Ministry of Justice; Assistant Registrar at the EFTA Court; Legal Secretary at the Court of Justice of the European Communities; Judge at the Supreme Administrative Court (1998-2005); member of the Asylum Appeal Board; Vice-Chairman of the Committee on the Development of the Finnish Courts; Judge at the Civil Service Tribunal from 6 October 2005 to 6 October 2009; Judge at the General Court since 7 October 2009; Vice-President of the General Court since 17 September 2013.
Born in 1955; law graduate (University of Thessaloniki, 1977); Special Diploma in European Law (Institute for European Studies, Free University of Brussels, 1980); Doctorate in Law (University of Thessaloniki, 1984); Lawyer-linguist at the Council of the European Communities (1980-82); Researcher at the Thessaloniki Centre for International and European Economic Law (1982-84); Administrator at the Court of Justice of the European Communities and at the Commission of the European Communities (1986-90); Professor of Community Law, International Private Law and Human Rights at Athens Panteion University (since 1990); external consultant for European matters at the Ministry of Justice and member of the Permanent Committee of the Lugano Convention (1991-2004); member of the national Postal and Telecommunications Commission (2000-02); member of the Thessaloniki Bar, lawyer to the Court of Cassation; founder member of the Union of European Lawyers (UAE); associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law; Judge at the Civil Service Tribunal from 6 October 2005 to 6 October 2011.
Born in 1950; law graduate of the University of Wrocław (1972), Doctorate in Law (Łodz, 1982); lawyer at the Bar of the Republic of Poland (since 1977); Visiting Researcher (University of Paris X, 1987-88; University of Nantes, 1993-94); expert of Solidarność (1995-2000); Professor of Labour Law and European Social Law at the University of Łodz (1997-98 and 2001-05), Associate Professor at Warsaw School of Economics (2002), Professor of Labour Law and Social Security Law at Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw (2000-05); Deputy Minister for Labour and Social Affairs (1998-2001); member of the negotiation team for the accession of the Republic of Poland to the European Union (1998-2001); representative of the Polish Government to the International Labour Organisation (1998-2001); author of a number of works on labour law and European social law; Judge at the Civil Service Tribunal from 6 October 2005 to 7 October 2013.
Born 1967 in Voiron (France), Stéphane Gervasoni graduated from the Institut d’études politiques (IEP) de Grenoble (Grenoble Institute of Political Studies, France) in 1988 and from the École nationale d’administration (ENA) (National School of Administration, France) in 1993 (Léon Gambetta graduation class).
He began his professional career in 1993 as a junior officer at the Conseil d’État (Council of State, Paris, France), where he subsequently became a master of petitions from 1996 (holding that office until 2008, the year in which he was appointed as a conseiller d’État (Councillor of State)). In the former role, he was a Judge-Rapporteur in the Litigation Division until 1997 and, in the latter role, a member of the Social Affairs Division (from 1996 to 1997). At the same time, he was a commissaire du gouvernement (Government commissioner) in the Special Committee on Pensions from 1994 to 1996 – a committee which was, at the time, temporarily attached to the Conseil d’État – and a legal adviser to the French Ministry of the Civil Service and to the City of Paris from 1995 to 1997.
In 1997, Mr Gervasoni joined the Prefecture of the Département of the Yonne (France) as Secretary-General, a position which he combined with that of Sub-Prefect of the District of Auxerre until 1999. He then joined the Prefecture of the Département of Savoie (France), where he held the office of Secretary-General and that of Sub-Prefect of the District of Chambéry (France) from 1999 to 2001.
The duties that Mr Gervasoni performed in the Conseil d’État and in public administration led him to the Court of Justice of the European Communities, where he was a legal secretary to Judge Jean-Pierre Puissochet from 2001 to 2005. He was appointed as a Judge at the European Union Civil Service Tribunal on 5 October 2005, the date on which that newly created court was established. He served at that Court until 6 October 2011, including as President of Chamber between 6 October 2008 and 6 October 2011.
Returning to the Conseil d’État, Mr Gervasoni was Deputy President of the Eighth Chamber of the Litigation Division from 2011 to 2013.
He has also been involved in teaching, holding the post of senior lecturer at the Institut d’études politiques (IEP) de Paris (Paris Institute of Political Studies, France) from 1993 to 1995 and at the University of Luxembourg since 2016. In addition, he was a full member of the Appeals Board of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) from 2001 to 2005 and a member of the Appeals Board of the European Space Agency (ESA) from 2011 to 2013.
Mr Gervasoni was appointed as a Judge at the General Court on 16 September 2013. He was elected twice by his peers as President of Chamber, an office that he held from 21 September 2016 to 19 September 2022.
Born in 1945; university studies in Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt-am-Main (1966-72); first State examination in law (1972); court trainee in Frankfurt-am-Main (1972-73 and 1974-75); College of Europe, Bruges (1973-74); second State examination in law (Frankfurt-am-Main, 1976); specialist adviser in the Federal Labour Office and lawyer (1976); presiding Judge at the Labour Court (Land Hesse, 1977-93); Lecturer at the Technical College for Social Work, Frankfurt-am-Main, and at the Technical College for Administration, Wiesbaden (1979-90); national expert to the Legal Service of the Commission of the European Communities (1993-96 and 2001-05); Social Affairs Attaché at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Madrid (1996-2001); presiding Judge at the Labour Court of Frankfurt-am-Main (February to September 2005); Judge at the Civil Service Tribunal from 6 October 2005 to 13 april 2016.
Born in 1956; study of law (law degree, University of Barcelona, 1981); specialisation in international trade (Mexico, 1983); study of European integration (Barcelona Chamber of Commerce, 1985) and of Community law (School of Public Administration, Catalonia, 1986); official of the Government of Catalonia (member of the Legal Service of the Ministry of Industry and Energy, April 1984 to August 1986); member of the Barcelona Bar (1985-87); Administrator, then Principal Administrator, in the Research and Documentation Division of the Court of Justice of the European Communities (1986-94); Legal Secretary at the Court of Justice (Chamber of Advocate General Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, January 1995 to April 2004; Chamber of Judge Lõhmus, May 2004 to August 2009); Lecturer on Community Cases, Faculty of Law, Autonomous University of Barcelona (1993-2000); numerous publications and courses on European social law; member of the Board of Appeal of the Community Plant Variety Office (2006-09); Judge at the Civil Service Tribunal from 7 October 2009 to 13 april 2016.
Born 1950; Doctor of Laws and lawyer at the Padua Bar; assistant lecturer, then senior researcher in civil and comparative law in the law faculty of the University of Padua (1977-82); lecturer in Community law at the European College, of Parma (1990-98), in the law faculties of the University of Padua (1985-87), the University of Macerata (1991-94) and the University of Naples (1995), and at the University of Milan (2000-01); member of the Scientific Committee for the Master’s in European Integration at the University of Padua; official in the Library, Research and Documentation Directorate of the Court of Justice of the European Communities (1982-84); Legal Secretary at the Court of Justice of the European Communities to Advocate General Mancini (1984-88); Legal Adviser to the Secretary-General of the European Parliament, E. Vinci (1988-93); Head of Division in the Legal Service of the European Parliament (1995-99); Director for Legislative Affairs and Conciliations, Inter-Institutional Relations and Relations with National Parliaments, at the European Parliament (1999-2004); Director for External Relations at the European Parliament (2004-06); Director for Legislative Affairs in the Legal Service of the European Parliament (2006-11); author of a number of publications on Italian civil law and EU law; Judge at the Civil Service Tribunal from 6 October 2011 to 31 August 2016; Judge at the General Court from 19 September 2016 to 26 September 2019.
Born 1951; graduated in law, specialisation in economics (Erasmus University Rotterdam, 1973); Doctor of Laws (University of Utrecht, 1981); researcher in European law and international economic law (1973-74) and lecturer in European law and economic law at the Europa Institute of the University of Utrecht (1974-79) and at the University of Leiden (1979-81); Legal Secretary at the Court of Justice of the European Communities (1981-86); Head of the Employee Rights Section in the Personnel Division of the Court of Justice of the European Communities (1986-87); Member of the Legal Service of the Commission of the European Communities (1987-91); Legal Secretary at the Court of Justice of the European Communities (1991-2000); Head of Division (2000-09), then Director (2009-11), in the Research and Documentation Directorate of the Court of Justice of the European Union; Professor (1988-2003) and Honorary Professor (since 2003) in European law at the University of Maastricht; Adviser to the Regional Court of Appeal, ’s-Hertogenbosch (1993-2011); Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1993); numerous publications on European law; Judge at the Civil Service Tribunal from 6 October 2011 to 31 August 2016; Judge at the General Court since 19 September 2016.
Born 1957; law degree (Trinity College, Dublin, 1975-79); Research assistant to Senator Mary Robinson (1978-79 and 1980); Pádraig Pearse Scholarship to study at the College of Europe (1979); postgraduate studies in European law at the College of Europe, Bruges (1979-80); Master's degree in law at the University of Cambridge (1980-81); Trainee at the European Parliament (Luxembourg, 1981); Administrator in the Secretariat of the Committee on Legal Affairs of the European Parliament (Luxembourg, 1981-88); Member of the Legal Service of the European Parliament (Brussels, 1988-95); Legal Secretary at the Court of Justice (1995-2000); Lecturer in European law at Harvard Law School (2000); Member of the Legal Service of the European Parliament (2000-03), then Head of Unit (2003-11) and Director (2011); author of numerous publications; Judge at the Civil Service Tribunal from 6 October 2011 to 31 August 2016.
Born 1966; study of law (Candidatus juris, University of Aarhus, 1989); trainee lawyer with the Legal Adviser to the Danish Government (1989-91); Legal Secretary at the Court of Justice of the European Communities in the Chambers of Advocate General Gulmann (1991-93); admitted to the bar in Denmark (1993); lawyer with the Legal Adviser to the Danish Government (1993-95); Lecturer in European law at the University of Copenhagen; Senior Lecturer at the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) (Luxembourg, 1995-97); lawyer at the Brussels bar (1997); Senior Lecturer, then Acting Director of EIPA (Luxembourg, 1997-99); administrator with the Legal Service of the Surveillance Authority of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) (1999-2000); Legal Secretary at the Court of Justice of the European Communities in the Chambers of Judge Gulmann (2003‑06), then of Judge Bay Larsen (2006-13); Judge at the Civil Service Tribunal from 7 October 2013 to 31 August 2016; Judge at the General Court since 19 September 2016.
Born 1957; graduated in law from the University of Lisbon (1980); assistant for administrative law at the University of Lisbon (1979-80); studies in the field of industrial property at the Max Planck Institute, Munich (1982-84); administrator, then head of division, at the Ministry of the Interior (1980-86); lawyer at the Lisbon Bar (1981-86); at the European Parliament: administrator in the Directorate-General for Information and Public Relations (1986-87), in the Directorate-General for Research and Documentation (1987-92), in the Directorate-General for Personnel, Budget and Finance (1992-96) and in the Legal Service (1996-2000); Head of the Administration and Finance Department (2000-07), then Head of the Legal Department (2007-11) and of Directorate A (2012-15), of the European Ombudsman; Judge at the Civil Service Tribunal from 13 April 2016 to 31 August 2016.
Born 1978; graduated in law from St Kliment Ohridski University, Sofia (2002), and Master of Laws in European law from the College of Europe (Bruges, 2004); Doctor of Laws (2008); lawyer at the Brussels Bar (2004-06); Senior Lecturer in EU procedural law at the University of National and World Economy, Sofia (2008-12), and St Kliment Ohridski University, Sofia (2010-13); Associate Professor of EU Law and International Private Law at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (since 2014); Guest lecturer at the University of Cambridge and at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Legal Secretary at the Court of Justice of the European Union (2007-16); founding member and member of the board of directors of the Bulgarian Association for European Law; editor-in-chief of the European law journal Evropeiski praven pregled; author of numerous publications in the field of European law; Judge at the Civil Service Tribunal from 13 April 2016 to 31 August 2016; Judge at the General Court since 19 September 2016.
Born 1955; studied law in Regensburg and Geneva (1974-79); first State examination (1979); postgraduate studies in Community law at the College of Europe, Bruges (1979-80); trainee lawyer in Regensburg (1980-83); Doctor of Laws (1982); second State examination (1983); lawyer in Munich and Paris (1983-89); official at the Court of Justice of the European Communities (1990-2005); Legal Secretary at the Court of Justice of the European Communities (in the Chambers of Judge Jann, 1995-2005); teaching for a number of universities in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Russia; Honorary Professor at Saarland University (since 1999); member of various legal committees, associations and boards; numerous publications on Community law and Community procedural law; Registrar of the Civil Service Tribunal from 30 November 2005 to 31 August 2016; died on 20 January 2024.
