C/03/312
Brussel, 31 oktober 2003
13989/03 (Presse 312)
Benoeming bij het Hof van Justitie
De vertegenwoordigers van de regeringen van de lidstaten hebben op 23
oktober 2003
de heer Konrad SCHIEMANN (1)
benoemd tot rechter bij het Hof van Justitie van de Europese
Gemeenschappen voor de periode van 1 januari 2004 tot en met 6 oktober
2006, ter vervanging van de heer David EDWARD, die ontslag heeft
genomen.
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CURRICULUM VITAE
The Right Honourable Lord Justice Schiemann
Full Name: Sir Konrad Hermann Theodor Schiemann
Date of Birth: 15 September 1937
Education
Primary and secondary education at first in Germany then in England.
1961: MA in law, Pembroke College, Cambridge University.
1962 : LLB (higher law degree), Pembroke College, Cambridge
University.
Career
Private Practice
1962: Called to the Bar, Inner Temple
1962-1986 : Practice as Barrister, London.
Practice primarily in the area of administrative and commercial law
including cases with an EC law element.
1978-1980: Junior Counsel to the Crown.
Regularly representing the Government in judicial review cases.
1980: Appointed Queen's Counsel.
Judicial Appointments
1985: Recorder of the High Court
1986: Appointed a Justice of the High Court, Queen's Bench Division.
Adjudicating as a single judge on a wide range of important civil and
administrative litigation including cases which turn on points of
EC law.
1995: Appointed Lord Justice of Appeal (Court of Appeal) with special
responsibility for EC Law cases.
Presiding over one of the three chambers of the Court of Appeal
handling a wide range of civil and administrative work including EC
law cases (notably the Factortame case).
Other Relevant Appointments
Head of the U.K delegation to the Association of Councils of State and
Administrative Jurisdictions of the European Union.
Association comprising two administrative judges from each of the
Member Countries and from the European Court of Justice.
Member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for European Legal Studies,
Cambridge University.
Member of the Advisory Board of the Center for European Private Law of
the University of Münster.
Member of the Council of Management and Chairman of the Comparative
Law section of the British Institute of International and Comparative
Law.
Treasurer of the Inner Temple.
The Inner Temple is one of the four Inns of Court responsible for
barristers' training and discipline. The Treasurer governs the Society
with a Committee of senior barristers and judges.
Other Legal Activities
Regular visits to the French Conseil d'Etat as part of British
Judicial delegations. Visiting judge at Conseil d'Etat, 1990.
Member of the British-German Jurists Association and of the Bar
European Group.
Lectures on EC law to lawyers from Acceding Member States, under the
auspices of the Cambridge Centre for European Law. Lectures in
England, Germany, Austria, France and China on various legal topics.
Publications
Numerous contributions to English and German law books and legal
periodicals, most relevantly:
1998 Practitioners' Handbook of EC Law.
1998 Law Quarterly Review : Review of Markesinis 'The German Law of
Obligations'.
2000 Yearbook of European Law: "Europe our Common Legal
Principles".
2003 Europarecht : Aktuelle Einflüsse des deutchen Rechts auf die
richerliche Fortbildung des englischen Rechts.
2003 Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales
Privatrecht:
Review of Schlechtriem 'Restitution und Bereicherungsausgleich in
Europa'.
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