Christiaan Timmermans

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Prof., dr.
Christiaan Willem Anton Timmermans
Judge of the European Court of Justice
In office
7 October 2000 – 10 June 2010
Preceded by Paul Joan George Kapteyn
Succeeded by Sacha Prechal
Personal details
Born (1941-12-06) 6 December 1941 (age 82)
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Nationality Dutch

Christiaan Willem Anton Timmermans (born 6 December 1941 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch law professor and judge. He has been a judge at the European Court of Justice.

Biography

Timmermans was born in 1941 in Rotterdam.[1] He 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 Studies at Leiden University. He subsequently worked as a professor of European Law at the University of Groningen between 1977 and 1989.[2] Between 1989 and 2000 he was deputy director-general of the Legal Service at the European Commission. In 1991 Timmermans was made foreign correspondent of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[3] In 2000 Timmermans was appointed as a judge of the European Court of Justice.[2] He succeeded Paul Joan George Kapteyn as the Dutch judge, he himself was succeeded by Sacha Prechal in June 2010. Since his return to the Netherlands he serves as professor at the Law faculty (Pieter Sanders professorship) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.[4]

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