Welcome to ERA – Academy of European Law

The Board of Trustees advises the Executive Board and Management Board particularly with regard to the planning of the programme of events. It is composed of individuals who are closely involved with European law in the institutions of the European Union and within legal and economic circles, particularly in the Member States.

Judge John Toulmin CMG QC, High Court of Justice, the Technology and Construction Court, London

Professor Josef Azizi, Member of the General Court of the European Union

Ivan Bizjak, Director General of Justice and Home Affairs at the Council of the European Union

Professor Klaus Dieter Borchardt, Director for direct support, market measures, promotion, DG for Agriculture and Rural Development, European Commission

Vítor Manuel da Silva Caldeira, President of the European Court of Auditors 

Marc Jaeger, President of the General Court of the European Union

Niilo Jääskinen, Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union

Sarah Jund, Legal Secretary, Court of Justice of the European Union

Professor Koen Lenaerts, member of the Court of Justice of the European Union

Paul Maier, President of the Boards of Appeal, OHIM

Christian Pennera, Jurisconsult of the European Parliament

Jean-Claude Piris, Director General of the Legal Service, Council of the European Union

Sir Konrad Schiemann, member of the Court of Justice of the European Union

Professor Wolfgang Schomburg, former judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, former judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, former judge at the German Federal Court of Justice

Aled Williams, President of Eurojust

Austria
Professor Josef Azizi, Member of the General Court of the European Union, Luxembourg

Croatia
Ivana Goranić, Director of the Judicial Academy, Zagreb

Cyprus
Dr Constantinos Lycourgos, Head of the EU Section for the Attorney General of the Republic, Nicosia

Czech Republic
JUDr Jana Wurstová, former Head of the International Department, Czech Bar Association, Prague

Finland
Mr Justice Kari Kuusiniemi, Supreme Administrative Court, Helsinki

France
Eric Maîtrepierre, Head of the European and International Department, Ministry of Justice, Paris

Germany
Dr Birgit Grundmann, State Secretary, Ministry of Justice, Berlin

Greece
N.N.

Hungary
N.N.

Ireland
Justice Nial Fennelly, Supreme Court of Ireland, Dublin

Italy
Professor Remo Caponi, University of Florence

Luxembourg
N.N.

The Netherlands
R.R. Winter, President of the College van Beroep voor het Bedrijfsleven, The Hague

Poland
Dr Maciej Szpunar, Undersecretary of State of the Office of the Committee for European Integration, Warsaw

Portugal
Professor Fausto de Quadros, Law Faculty, University of Lisbon

Romania
Tudor Chiuariu, Member of Parliament; former Minister of Justice; Senior  Partner, Chiuariu & Associates, Bucharest

Scotland
N.N.

Slovakia
JUDr Petr Hulla, Director of the Judicial Academy, Pezinok

Slovenia
Dr Janez Čebulj, former President of the Constitutional Court, Ljubljana

Spain
N.N.

Sweden
Kristina Holmgren, Director, Division for European Affairs, Ministry of Justice, Stockholm

United Kingdom
The Right Hon the Lord Mance, Justice of the Supreme Court, London

Professor Massimo Benedettelli, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Milan; University of Bari

Jean-Marie Burguburu, former Bâtonnier of the Paris Bar; Partner, Gide Loyrette Nouel, Paris

Paul de Jonge, General Manager of the European Company Lawyers Association (ECLA), Brussels

Victor Hall, Secretary General, European Judicial Training Network, Brussels

Dr Hans-Jürgen Hellwig, Partner, Hengeler Müller, Frankfurt am Main; former President of CCBE

Dr Eberhard Klein, Conference of Notaries of the European Union, Saarbrücken

Dr Pauliine Koskelo, President of the Supreme Court, Helsinki

Dr Péter Köves, Founding Partner of Lakatos, Köves & Partners Ügyvédi Iroda, Budapest; former President of CCBE

Vincent Lamanda, First President of the Court of Cassation, Paris

Vito Monetti, President of the association Magistrats Européens pour la Démocratie et les Libertés (MEDEL), Rome

Professor Philippe-Emmanuel Partsch, Partner, Arendt & Medernach, Luxembourg

Jean-François Thony, Director of the French Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature, Bordeaux

Virgilijus Valančius, President of the European Judges Association, Vilnius

Denis Waelbroeck, Partner, Ashurst, Brussels

Tomasz Wardyński, Founding Partner of Wardyński & Partners, Warsaw

Heinz Weil, Founding Partner of Weil & Associés, Paris; former President of CCBE

Michael Jürgen Werner, Managing Partner, Norton Rose, Brussels

Dr Heinrich Zens, President of the Association of European Administrative Judges, Vienna

Philippe de Buck, Secretary General, Business Europe, Brussels

Sir Thomas Macpherson, former President of Eurochambres, London

John Monks, Secretary General of the European Trade Union Confederation, Brussels

Jettie Van Caenegem, Group General Counsel, Tessenderlo Group, Brussels

Professor Catherine Barnard, University of Cambridge

Josep Borrell, President of the European University Institute, Florence

Professor Władysław Czapliński, University of Warsaw

Professor Paul Demaret, Rector of the College of Europe, Bruges

Professor Jan H. Jans, University of Groningen

Professor Catherine Kessedjian, University of Paris-II Panthéon Assas

Professor Ludwig Krämer, University of Bremen

Professor Peter-Christian Müller-Graff, Director of the Institute for German and European Company and Economic Law, Heidelberg

Professor Bruno Nascimbene, University of Milan

Professor Thomas Rüfner, University of Trier

Professor Elisabeth Sándor-Szalay, University of Pécs

Professor Torsten Stein, Director of the Europa Institute of the University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken

Professor Christa Tobler, Universities of Basel and Leiden

Professor Walter van Gerven, Universities of Louvain and Maastricht; former Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union

Francesco de Angelis, former Director at the European Commission

Professor Sir David A. O. Edward, former member of the Court of Justice of the European Communities, Edinburgh
See external website "The Judge David Edward Oral History"

Dr Charles Elsen, former Director General of Justice and Home Affairs at the Council of the European Union, Luxembourg

Professor Gregorio Garzón Clariana, former Jurisconsult of the European Parliament

Willi Rothley, former Member of the European Parliament, Rockenhausen