Luxembourg, 8 October 2024
Following the partial renewal of the membership of the Court of Justice, Mr Koen Lenaerts has been re-elected by his peers to serve as President of the Court of Justice of the European Union for the period from 8 October 2024 to 6 October 2027.
Born 1954 in Mortsel (Belgium), Koen Lenaerts obtained a law degree in 1977 from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium) before continuing his studies at Harvard University, USA, where he obtained a Master of Laws in 1978 and a Master in Public Administration in 1979. Returning to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, he obtained a doctorate in law in 1982.
It was at that same university that he started his professional career in 1979 as a lecturer before becoming a Professor of European Law in 1983. During his university career, he also taught at the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium) from 1984 to 1989 and as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, USA, in 1989.
Mr Lenaerts began his career at the Court of Justice as a legal secretary to Judge René Joliet, a post which he held from 1984 to 1985 before working as a lawyer at the Brussels Bar from 1986 to 1989. He was appointed as a Judge at the Court of First Instance of the European Communities on 25 September 1989, the date on which that newly created court was established. He served in that capacity for more than 14 years before being appointed as a Judge at the Court of Justice on 7 October 2003.
He was elected by his peers to the office of President of Chamber for two successive terms from 9 October 2006 to 8 October 2012 and subsequently to the office of Vice-President of the Court of Justice on 9 October 2012. He was elected President of the Court of Justice on 8 October 2015 and has held that office since then. Unofficial document for media use, not binding on the Court of Justice.
Source – EU Court of Justice: 175/2024 : 8 October 2024 – Information
Thomas von Danwitz elected Vice-President of the EU Court of Justice
8 October 2024
Following the partial renewal of the membership of the Court of Justice, Mr Thomas von Danwitz has been
elected Vice-President of the Court of Justice of the European Union for the period from 8 October 2024 to
6 October 2027. He succeeds Mr Lars Bay Larsen.
Curriculum vitae of Thomas von Danwitz
Born 1962 in Bedburg/Erft (Germany), Thomas von Danwitz studied at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn, Germany) where he passed the First State Law Examination in 1986, and at the université de Genève (University of Geneva, Switzerland). He wrote his thesis at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and was awarded his doctorate in law in 1988.
In 1990, Mr von Danwitz graduated from the École nationale d’administration (National School of Administration, France) with an international diploma in public administration. In 1992, he completed his legal traineeship in Cologne (Germany) with the Second State Law Examination and then, in 1996, he obtained his postdoctoral research and teaching qualification at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn where he worked as a research associate.
Mr von Danwitz focused his research and taught in the field of German public law and European law at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany) where he was a professor from 1996 to 2003 and Dean of the Faculty of Law from 2000 to 2001. From 2003 to 2006, he taught at the Universität zu Köln (University of Cologne, Germany) where he became Director of the Institute of Public Law and Administrative Science in 2006.
His academic career took him to the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (USA) as a visiting professor in 2000, to the université François Rabelais de Tours (François Rabelais University, Tours, France) between 2001 and 2006, and to the université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, France) from 2005 to 2006. In 2005, he completed a teaching and research fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley (USA). In 2004, he joined the Executive Committee of the Association of German Jurists (Ständige Deputation des Deutschen Juristentags) as a member, where he remained until 2014.
Mr von Danwitz was appointed as a Judge at the Court of Justice on 7 October 2006. He was elected President of Chamber by his peers for two successive terms between 9 October 2012 and 6 October 2018.
Source – EU Court of Justice (by email)
Mr Maciej Szpunar is re-elected First Advocate General of the Court of Justice
Following the partial renewal of the membership of the Court of Justice, 1 Mr Maciej Szpunar has been re- elected First Advocate General of the Court of Justice by his peers for the period from 8 October 2024 to 6 October 2027
Curriculum vitae of Maciej Szpunar
Born in 1971 in Cracow (Poland), Mr Maciej Szpunar obtained a master’s degree in law from the Uniwersytet Śląski (University of Silesia, Poland) in 1995 and from the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium) in 1996. He presented his doctoral thesis in law in 2000, became a habilitated doctor in legal science in 2009, and then a professor of law in
2013 at the Uniwersytet Śląski. In 1998, his academic work took him to Jesus College, Cambridge (United Kingdom) where he was a visiting scholar, then to the University of Liège (Belgium) in 1999, and to the European University Institute in Florence (Italy) in 2003.
In 2001, he joined the Katowice Bar to take up the profession of lawyer, a profession which he practiced until 2008. During that period, he was also a member of the Committee for Private International Law of the Civil Law Codification Commission under the Polish Ministry of Justice.
He was Undersecretary of State in the Office of the Committee for European Integration (Poland) from 2008 to 2009, before joining the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2010 to 2013. During those three years, he represented the Polish government as an agent in a large number of cases before the Courts of the European Union.
He remains committed to academic research and sits on the editorial boards of a number of legal journals, which has led him to author numerous publications in the fields of European law and private international law.
Mr Szpunar was appointed as an Advocate General at the Court of Justice on 23 October 2013. Having been appointed First Advocate General on 11 October 2018, he was first elected to that position on 8 October 2021.
Quelle – EU Court of Justice