Christiaan Timmermans
{{short description|Dutch law professor and judge (born 1941)}}
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|office = Judge of the European Court of Justice
|term_start = 7 October 2000
|term_end = 10 June 2010
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|predecessor = Paul Joan George Kapteyn
|successor = Sacha Prechal
|birth_name = Christiaan Willem Anton Timmermans
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|birth_place = Rotterdam, Netherlands
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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
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| discipline = European Union law
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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.{{cite web|author= |url=http://hoogleraren.ub.rug.nl/?page=showPerson&type=hoogleraar&hoogleraar_id=1695&lang=en |title=Christiaan Willem Anton Timmermans, 1941 |publisher=University of Groningen |date= |accessdate=8 August 2013}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://aei.pitt.edu/74355/1/BIO_-_EN-MULTI_-_Timmermans.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221012125634/https://aei.pitt.edu/74355/1/BIO_-_EN-MULTI_-_Timmermans.pdf |title=Curriculum Vitae - Christiaan W.A. Timmermans |publisher=University of Pittsburgh Archive of European Integration |date= |archive-date=12 October 2022}}
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.{{Cite web |url=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 |archive-url=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 |title=Prof. dr. C.W.A. Timmermans, 1941 - |archive-date=14 November 2023 |website=Album Academicum |publisher=University of Amsterdam}} He subsequently worked as a professor of European Law at the University of Groningen between 1977 and 1989.{{cite web|author= |url=https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_7014/en/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230709233902/https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_7014/en/ |title=Former members |publisher=Court of Justice |date= |archive-date=9 July 2023}} Between 1989 and 2000 he was deputy director-general of the Legal Service at the European Commission. While in this position he wrote a handbook on European Union law together with Richard Lauwaars.{{cite web|url=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 |archive-url=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 |title=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. |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=21 May 2009 |archive-date=18 November 2023}} In 1991 Timmermans was made foreign correspondent of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.{{cite web|url=https://www.knaw.nl/nl/leden/correspondenten/4874 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220521215236/https://www.knaw.nl/nl/leden/correspondenten/4874 |title=C.W.A. Timmermans |publisher=Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen |date= |archive-date=21 May 2022}} From 1999 to 2003 he was a part time professor of European law at the University of Amsterdam.
On 7 October 2000 Timmermans was appointed as a judge of the European Court of Justice. He succeeded Paul Joan George Kapteyn as the Dutch judge. From 2003 to 2009 he served as president of a chamber of judges.{{cite web|url=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|archive-url=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|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 August 2013|title=Timmermans, Christiaan|publisher=European Law Institute|accessdate=8 August 2013}} Timmermans himself was succeeded as judge by Sacha Prechal on 10 June 2010 and she would sit out of the remainder of his term until 2012.{{cite web|url=https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2010-06/cp100054nl.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403220624/https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2010-06/cp100054nl.pdf |title=Ambtsaanvaarding door een nieuwe rechter in het Hof van Justitie van de Europese Unie |language=Dutch |publisher=European Court of Justice |date=10 June 2010 |archive-date=3 April 2019}}
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.{{cite web|url=http://ec.europa.eu/anti_fraud/documents/supervisory-committee/cv_christiaan_timmermans_en.pdf|title=Curriculum Vitae|publisher=European Commission - European Anti Fraud Office|accessdate=8 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120907004509/http://ec.europa.eu/anti_fraud/documents/supervisory-committee/cv_christiaan_timmermans_en.pdf|archive-date=2012-09-07|url-status=dead}} From 2016 until 2019, he also served on the Commission's Independent Ethical Committee.[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] European Commission, 11 July 2016.Quentin Ariès (February 28, 2017), [https://www.politico.eu/article/watchdog-to-investigate-handling-jose-manuel-barroso-goldman-sachs-move/ Watchdog to investigate handling of Barroso’s Goldman move] Politico Europe.
Other activities
- British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Member of the Advisory Council
- T.M.C. Asser Instituut, Member of the Advisory Council on International Law
- European Law Institute, Member of the Projects Committee
- Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foreign Correspondent
- European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), Member of the Supervisory Committee (2012–2015)[https://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-12-39_en.htm Appointment of the new OLAF Supervisory Committee] European Commission, press release of January 24, 2012.Charlie Dunmore (October 25, 2012), [https://www.reuters.com/article/eu-health-dalli/ex-eu-health-chief-vows-to-fight-tobacco-bribe-links-idUSL5E8LOHN520121024 Ex-EU health chief vows to fight tobacco bribe links] Reuters.
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