Christiaan Timmermans

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 Rotterdam, Netherlands

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. 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. 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. In 2000 Timmermans was appointed as a judge of the European Court of Justice. 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.

Memberships

• Member of the Advisory Council of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law
• Member of the Advisory Council of International Law of the T.M.C. Asser Instituut
• Member of the Projects Committee of the European Law Institute
• Foreign Correspondent of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences