Grant Recipients from the Max Planck Institute Appointed to European High Courts
08.02.2007
In connection with Romania and Bulgaria’s entrance into the European, Prof. Camelia Toader (Bucharest) and Prof. Teodor Tchipev (Sofia) were on 12 January 2007 respectively appointed as judges to the Court of Justice of the European Communities and the Court of First Instance. Additionally, Prof. Verica Trstenjak (Ljubljana), who acted as judge in the Court of First Instance from 2004-2006, has since 7 October 2006 served as General Secretary at the Court of Justice. All three have been a considerable time closely tied to the Hamburg Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, in particular through multiple research stays, as stipend recipients of the Institute and through their membership as Friends of Institute. Each of them participated in projects that were dedicated to legal reform in their home countries and that were academically and collegially supported by the Institute.