Jan Passer

Jan M. Passer (born in 1974) is a Czech jurist. He is currently the Judge of the European Court of Justice since 2016.

Jan Passer
Judge of the European Court of Justice
Assumed office
16 September 2016
Personal details
Born
Jan M. Passer[1]

1974 (age 48–49)
Prague, Czechoslovakia

Biography

Passer was born in Prague in 1974.[2]

He studied law at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in 1997, at the Faculty of Law of Stockholm University (LL.M. in 2000). He has a Doctor of Laws in 2007.[2]

In 2001, he worked as a judge of the District Court for Prague 2.[1] From 2004, he was a trainee judge and from 2005, a regular judge of the Supreme Administrative Court, where for a certain period he worked, among other things, as the chairman of the electoral senate.[1]

In February 2016, he was selected as a candidate for the position of judge of the Tribunal of the European Court of Justice for the Czech Republic, he became a member of the Tribunal as the second Czech judge after Irena Pelikánová on September 19 of the same year.[3]

For the period from 6 October 2020 to 6 October 2024, he was appointed a judge of the European Court of Justice, where he replaced Jiří Malenovský.[4][5]

References
  1. "Nejvyšší správní soud | JUDr. Jan M. Passer, Ph.D., LL.M. (* 1974)". 2020-11-23. Archived from the original on 2020-11-23. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  2. "Presentation of the Members - Court of Justice of the European Union". CURIA. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  3. "Rozmanitost právních kultur je obohacující, říká český soudce v EU". iDNES.cz (in Czech). 2016-12-12. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  4. "Jan Passer nastoupil u Soudního dvora EU" (in Czech). Česká justice. 2020-10-07. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  5. "Na slavnostním zasedání Soudního dvora" (in Czech). Deník N. 2020-10-06. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
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