ERA – Academy of European Law

Board of Trustees

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.


Chair

Chair

Pauliine Koskelo, Judge at the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg


Deputy chairs

Deputy chairs

Zuzana Fišerová, Director, International Department for Civil Matters and Junior Deputy Minister, Ministry of Justice, Prague

Marc van der Woude, Vice-President of the General Court of the European Union, Luxembourg


Members of the Board of Trustees

Members of the Board of Trustees

Stefania Bariatti, Professor at the Milan University; Of Counsel at Chiomenti Studio Legale, Milan-Brussels

Massimo Benedettelli, Partner at ARBLIT, Milan

Philip Buisseret, Secretary-General of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), Brussels

Christopher Buttigieg, Lecturer, Banking and Finance Department, University of Malta

José Carreira, Executive Director of the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), Malta

Janeen Carruthers, Professor at the University of Glasgow, School of Law

Vassili Christianos, Partner at Christianos & Partners, Athens; Emeritus Professor of European Union Law at the Law School of the University of Athens

Pierre-Henri Conac, Professor at the University of Luxembourg

Georges-Albert Dal, Partner at DALDEWOLF; Emeritus Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven; former President of the CCBE, Brussels

Francesco de Angelis, Hon. Director General of the European Commission, Brussels

Marc De Vos, Professor at the Ghent University Law School

Freddy Drexler, Jurisconsult and Director General of the Legal Service of the European Parliament, Luxembourg

Sir David A. O. Edward, former member of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Edinburgh

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

Gregorio Garzón Clariana, former Jurisconsult of the European Parliament, Barcelona

Waltraud Hakenberg, former Registrar of the Civil Service Tribunal of the EU, Luxembourg

Ladislav Hamran, President of Eurojust, The Hague

Hans-Jürgen Hellwig, Partner at Hengeler Mueller; former President of the CCBE, Frankfurt am Main

Catherine Kessedjian, Emeritus Professor at the University of Paris-II Panthéon Assas, Arbitrator and Mediator

Andrej Kmecl, Judge at the Administrative Court of Ljubljana

Vanessa Knapp OBE, Independent Consultant and Visiting Professor at Queen Mary University, London

Ludwig Krämer, Partner at Brenes Abogados, Madrid

Yves Kreins, Judge at the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva

Irēna Kucina, Deputy State Secretary at the Ministry of Justice, Riga

Kari Kuusiniemi, Judge at the Supreme Administrative Court, Helsinki

Alexander Layton QC, Barrister, 20 Essex Street, London

Hubert Legal, Director General of the Legal Service of the Council of the EU, Brussels

Klaus-Heiner Lehne, President of the European Court of Auditors, Luxembourg

Louise Lee Leth, Head of Department of Training at the Danish Court Administration, Copenhagen

Ola Löfgren, Secretary to the European Judicial Network (EJN), The Hague

Bertrand Louvel, First President of the Court of Cassation, Paris

Constantinos Lycourgos, Judge at the Court of Justice of the EU, Luxembourg

Jacques Malherbe, Of Counsel at Simont Braun, Brussels

Holger Matt, Chairman of the European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA), Frankfurt am Main

Ján Mazák, Former Advocate General at the European Court of Justice, Luxembourg/Košice

Niamh Moloney, Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science

Peter-Christian Müller-Graff, Professor at the University of Heidelberg

Rimvydas Norkus, President of the Supreme Court of Lithuania, Vilnius

Luís Pereira, Deputy Director of the Centre for Judicial Studies (CEJ), Lisbon; former Secretary-General of the European Judicial Training Network (EJTN)

Andrea Posavec Franić, Director of the Judicial Academy, Zagreb

Wojciech Postulski, Secretary-General of the European Judicial Training Network (EJTN), Brussels

Raul-Mihai Rădoi, Secretary-General of the Council of the Notariats of the European Union (CNUE), Brussels

María José Rangel de Mesquita, Judge at the Constitutional Court, Lisbon

Christophe Régnard, President of the European Judges Association, Paris

Christine Roger, Director General for Justice and Home Affairs in the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union, Brussels

Luis Romero Requena, Director General of the Legal Service of the European Commission, Brussels

Henrik Rothe, President of the Maritime and Commercial High Court, Copenhagen

Taru Spronken, Professor at Maastricht University; Advocate General at the Supreme Court in the Netherlands, The Hague

Alain Steichen, Partner at Bonn Steichen & Partners, Luxembourg

Alain Strowel, Professor at the Facultés Universitaires de Saint-Louis, Brussels

Maciej Szpunar, Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg

Patrick Thieffry, Partner at Thieffry & Associés; Associate Professor at the Sorbonne School of Law, Paris

Antonio Tizzano, Vice President of the Court of Justice of the EU, Luxembourg

Camelia Toader, Judge at the Court of Justice of the EU, Luxembourg

Christa Tobler, Professor at the Universities of Basel and Leiden

Stefan Tratz, Director of the German Judicial Academy, Trier/Wustrau

Colin Tyre, Lord Tyre, Judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland, Edinburgh

Jettie Van Caenegem, Chairwoman of the Association for the Promotion of ERA (“Friends of ERA”), Brussels

Robert Wainwright, Director, Europol, The Hague

Diana Wallis, former President of the European Law Institute (ELI), Vienna/Hull

Tomasz Wardyński, Partner at Wardyński & Partners, Warsaw

Heinz Weil, Partner at Weil & Associés; former President of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), Paris

Michael Jürgen Werner, Partner at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, Brussels

Dragomir Yordanov, Executive Director of the European School of Enforcement, Sofia

Edith Zeller, President of the Association of European Administrative Judges, Vienna

Welcome to ERA – Academy of European Law

Board of Trustees

Board of Trustees

Chair

Deputy chairs

Members of the Board of Trustees