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Christiaan Timmermans
Office:Judge of the European Court of Justice
Term Start:7 October 2000
Term End:10 June 2010
Predecessor:Paul Joan George Kapteyn
Successor:Sacha Prechal
Birth Name:Christiaan Willem Anton Timmermans
Birth Date:6 December 1941
Birth Place:Rotterdam, Netherlands
Nationality:Dutch
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Education:Sint Franciscuscollege, Rotterdam
Alma Mater:Leiden University (LLM, PhD)
Thesis Title:De administratieve rechter en beoordelingsvrijheden van bestuursorganen: een rechtsvergelijkend onderzoek naar de controle van de administratieve rechter op de uitoefening van beoordelingsvrijheden van bestuursorganen in het nationale recht en het gemeenschapsrecht
Thesis Year:1973
Doctoral Advisor:Herman Hendrik Maas
Discipline:European Union law
Workplaces:University of Groningen

Christiaan Willem Anton Timmermans (born 6 December 1941) is a Dutch law professor and judge. He was a judge at the European Court of Justice between 2000 and 2010.

Early life

Timmermans was born in 1941 in Rotterdam.[1] From 1953 to 1959 he attended the Sint Francisucscollege in Rotterdam. From 1959 to 1966 he studied law at Leiden University and specialized in private law.[2]

Career

Timmermans pursued a career as law clerk in the European Court of Justice, working there between 1966 and 1969. He then worked as an official for the Commission of the European Communities between 1969 and 1977. In 1973 he obtained a Ph.D. in law at Leiden University; his doctoral thesis, titled De administratieve rechter en beoordelingsvrijheden van bestuursorganen: een rechtsvergelijkend onderzoek naar de controle van de administratieve rechter op de uitoefening van beoordelingsvrijheden van bestuursorganen in het nationale recht en het gemeenschapsrecht (The administrative judge and freedoms of assessment of administrative bodies: a comparative legal inquiry into the control of the administrative judge on the exercise of freedoms of assessment of administrative bodies in national law and Community law) was supervised by Herman Hendrik Maas.[2] [3] He subsequently worked as a professor of European Law at the University of Groningen between 1977 and 1989.[4] Between 1989 and 2000 he was deputy director-general of the Legal Service at the European Commission.[4] While in this position he wrote a handbook on European Union law together with Richard Lauwaars.[5] In 1991 Timmermans was made foreign correspondent of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[6] From 1999 to 2003 he was a part time professor of European law at the University of Amsterdam.[2] [3]

On 7 October 2000 Timmermans was appointed as a judge of the European Court of Justice.[4] He succeeded Paul Joan George Kapteyn as the Dutch judge. From 2003 to 2009 he served as president of a chamber of judges.[7] Timmermans himself was succeeded as judge by Sacha Prechal on 10 June 2010 and she would sit out of the reminder of his term until 2012.[4] [8]

After his return to the Netherlands, Timmermans served as professor at the Law faculty (Pieter Sanders professorship) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam between 2010 and 2012.[7] [9] From 2016 until 2019, he also served on the Commission's Independent Ethical Committee.[10] [11]

Other activities

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Christiaan Willem Anton Timmermans, 1941 . University of Groningen . 8 August 2013.
  2. Web site: Curriculum Vitae - Christiaan W.A. Timmermans . https://web.archive.org/web/20221012125634/https://aei.pitt.edu/74355/1/BIO_-_EN-MULTI_-_Timmermans.pdf . University of Pittsburgh Archive of European Integration . 12 October 2022.
  3. Web site: Prof. dr. C.W.A. Timmermans, 1941 - . https://web.archive.org/web/20231114105142/https://albumacademicum.uva.nl/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?type=simple;lang=nl;c=ap;rgn1=entirerecord;q1=Timmermans;x=0;y=0;cc=ap;view=reslist;sort=achternaam;fmt=long;page=reslist;size=1;start=11 . 14 November 2023 . Album Academicum . University of Amsterdam.
  4. Web site: Former members . https://web.archive.org/web/20230709233902/https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_7014/en/ . Court of Justice . 9 July 2023.
  5. Web site: R.H. Lauwaars, C. W. A. Timmermans, Europees Gemeenschapsrecht in kort bestek, 2nd rev. edn., Wolters-Noordhoff, Groningen1991, 320 pp., Dfl. 69. - C.S. Pisuisse, Elementair Europees Gemeenschapsrecht, 2nd edn., Wolters-Noordhoff, Groningen1992, 172 pp., Dfl. 35. . https://web.archive.org/web/20231118115215/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/netherlands-international-law-review/article/abs/rh-lauwaars-c-w-a-timmermans-europees-gemeenschapsrecht-in-kort-bestek-2nd-rev-edn-woltersnoordhoff-groningen1991-320-pp-dfl-69-cs-pisuisse-elementair-europees-gemeenschapsrecht-2nd-edn-woltersnoordhoff-groningen1992-172-pp-dfl-35/78FE7C5A5E9574418A201DD5EBFB6B1D . Cambridge University Press . 21 May 2009 . 18 November 2023.
  6. Web site: C.W.A. Timmermans . https://web.archive.org/web/20220521215236/https://www.knaw.nl/nl/leden/correspondenten/4874 . Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen . 21 May 2022.
  7. Web site: Timmermans, Christiaan. https://archive.today/20130808100820/http://www.europeanlawinstitute.eu/about-eli/eli-bodies/council/council-contd/article/timmermans-christiaan/?tx_ttnews%5Bpointer350047%5D=9&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=126332&cHash=ac23ff344a651dc7eea404ff298ae3b1. dead. 8 August 2013. European Law Institute. 8 August 2013.
  8. Web site: Ambtsaanvaarding door een nieuwe rechter in het Hof van Justitie van de Europese Unie . https://web.archive.org/web/20190403220624/https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2010-06/cp100054nl.pdf . Dutch . European Court of Justice . 10 June 2010 . 3 April 2019.
  9. Web site: Curriculum Vitae. European Commission - European Anti Fraud Office. 8 August 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20120907004509/http://ec.europa.eu/anti_fraud/documents/supervisory-committee/cv_christiaan_timmermans_en.pdf. 2012-09-07. dead.
  10. https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/commission-decision-4507_2016_en.pdf Commission decision: Appointments to the Ad Hoc Ethical Committee 2016 - C(2016) 4507
  11. Quentin Ariès (February 28, 2017), Watchdog to investigate handling of Barroso’s Goldman move Politico Europe.
  12. https://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-12-39_en.htm Appointment of the new OLAF Supervisory Committee
  13. Charlie Dunmore (October 25, 2012), Ex-EU health chief vows to fight tobacco bribe links Reuters.

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