To properly understand and interpret a decision of a court, a thorough understanding of its working methods is essential. This is particularly true for Scandinavian lawyers, to whom several key features of the CJEU are quite foreign – including the lack of dissenting opinions and the role of Advocates General.
In this guest lecture, former CJEU judge Allan Rosas will share some of his extensive knowledge of the Court of Justice and its working methods, drawing on his more than 17 years of experience on the bench and three years experience as member and president of the 255 Committee.
About the speaker
Allan Rosas, Dr. Jur., Dr. Jur. h.c., Dr.Pol.Sc. h.c., is Emeritus Professor of Law and was Professor of Law at the University of Turku (1978-81) and the Åbo Akademi University (1981-95); former Principal Legal Adviser and Deputy Director-General of the Legal Service of the European Commission (1995-2002) and former Judge at the European Court of Justice (2002-2019). He is Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, President of the Article 255 TFEU Panel, Chair of the Independent Ethical Committee of the European Commission, Chair of the Advisory Board of the Faculty of Law of the University of Turku, Vice-Chair of the Finnish FIDE European Law Association and Chair of the Advisory Board of FIDE Helsinki 2027. More than 400 academic publications, most recent book (edited with Juha Raitio and Pekka Pohjankoski): The Rule of Law’s Anatomy in the EU: Foundations and Protections (Oxford, Hart Publishing, forthcoming June 2023).