Election of judges to the European Court of Human Rights

List and curricula vitae of candidates submitted by the Government of Luxembourg

Communication | Doc. 15876 | 07 December 2023

Author(s):

Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly

Contents

1List and curricula vitae of candidates submitted by the Government of Luxembourg

2Information on national selection procedure for the position of a judge of the European Court of Human Rights

Appendix 1– Curriculum vitae of Jörg GERKRATH

Appendix 2– Curriculum vitae of Marie-Jeanne KAPPWEILER

Appendix 3Appendix 3 – Curriculum vitae of Stéphane PISANI

1 List and curricula vitae of candidates submitted by the Government of Luxembourg

Letter from Mr Patrick Engelberg, Ambassador of Luxembourg to the Council of Europe, to Ms Chatzivassiliou-Tsovilis, Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly, dated 27 October 2023.

[…]

Attached are the three applications for the position of a judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Luxembourg, in compliance with Article 22 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

These are, in alphabetical order:

• Mr Jörg GERKRATH
• Ms Marie-Jeanne KAPPWEILER
• Mr Stéphane PISANI

2 Information on national selection procedure for the position of a judge of the European Court of Human Rights

The national selection procedure in Luxembourg is largely based on the guidelines of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe of 28 March 2012 on the selection of candidates for the post of judge at the European Court of Human Rights and its explanatory memorandum, which includes good practice in other Council of Europe member countries.

2.1 Call for applications

On 14 January 2023, a call for applications was published in Luxembourg's three largest daily newspapers: Luxemburger Wort, Tageblatt and Journal.

The call for applications was also published in the Luxembourg Official Journal, more specifically in the series known as Mémorial B (No. 245 of 25 January 2023).

It was also distributed electronically to the Luxembourg bar, the magistracy, notaries and bailiffs.

The call for applications was inspired by the guidelines of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe of 28 March 2012 on the selection of candidates for the position of judge at the European Court of Human Rights.

Candidates had to:

• be jurists of high moral character, in accordance with Article 21.1 of the Convention, who possess the qualifications required for appointment to high judicial office in their country or who are of recognised competence;
• have practical legal experience and knowledge of the Luxembourg legal system and international public law, particularly in the field of human rights;
• be proficient in the national language and one of the official languages of the Council of Europe (French or English), with at least a passive knowledge of the other language. Proficiency in the two languages of the Council of Europe will be considered an advantage.

The applications were submitted to a national selection committee. It invited the candidates who met the requirements to an interview, during which it examined not only their qualifications and experience, as well as their legal and linguistic skills, but also their suitability for judicial office within a collegiate body, including their management skills. The interviews took place at the Ministry of Justice in Luxembourg on 7 June 2023.

Candidates were invited to indicate in their application why, in their own judgement, they were suitable for this role. The curriculum vitae attached to the application must have been drawn up in one of the official languages of the Council of Europe on the basis of the model, the electronic version of which can be found at the following address: http://assembly.coe.int/CommitteeDocs/2009/IVIodelCVFR.doc.

Following this call for applications, the Ministry of Justice received seven applications for the position of judge at the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Luxembourg, including one female application.

2.2 Setting up the selection body

On 2 February 2023, the Minister of Justice, drawing inspiration from the above-mentioned guidelines and their explanatory memorandum, sent an official letter to the institutions and persons whom she intended to have sit on a national selection committee for candidates for the position of judge at the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Luxembourg.

In this letter, the selection procedure was explained in full.

By Ministerial Decree of 24 April 2023, amended by the Decree of 26 May 2023, which has as its legal basis the European Convention on Human Rights, the Rules of the European Court of Human Rights, Resolution 1646 (2009) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on the nomination of candidates and election of judges to the European Court of Human Rights, the Resolution of 23 September 2009 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on the status and conditions of service of judges at the European Court of Human Rights and the guidelines of 28 March 2012 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe concerning the selection of candidates for the post of judge at the European Court of Human Rights, the Minister of Justice has appointed the following persons as members of the Luxembourg Selection Committee:

• Maître Christian BILTGEN, President of the Diekirch Bar;
• Mr Francis DELAPORTE, President of the Administrative Court;
• Mr Patrick ENGELBERG, Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe;
• Mr Fernand ETGEN, President of the Chamber of Deputies;
• Ms Christine GOY, Secretary General at the Ministry of Justice;
• Ms Katalin LIGETI, Professor at the University of Luxembourg;
• Mr Roger LINDEN, President of the Superior Court of Justice;
• Ms Claudia MONTI, Mediator;
• Mr Gilbert PREGNO, Chairman of the Consultative Commission on Human Rights;
• Maître Pit RECKINGER, President of the Luxembourg Bar;
• Ms Martine SOLOVIEFF, General State Prosecutor.

The secretariat was provided by Ms Nancy Carier, Advisor at the Ministry of Justice, appointed by the same ministerial decree for this purpose.

Mr Roger Linden, Chairman, convened the Selection Committee before receiving the candidates in order to prepare for the interviews. Maître Pit Reckinger, President of the Luxembourg Bar, was excused.

The standardised interview outline drawn up in 2014, when the selection procedure was introduced, was analysed and the Committee members agreed on the topics to be covered during the interviews.

It was decided that the language test would be carried out by means of oral questions in English and French.

The Selection Committee examined and validated all the applications received by the Ministry of Justice within the deadline.

It was also decided to have candidates sign a declaration of honour with the following wording:

"I, the undersigned, declare on my honour: (1) that, in the event of my election as a judge of the European Court of Human Rights, I undertake not to engage, during my term of office, in any activity which is incompatible with the requirements of independence, impartiality or availability required for a full-time activity;

(2) that I have never said, written or done anything which, if it were made public, might be prejudicial to the honour of the European Court of Human Rights.".

As in 2014, candidates were asked to bring a recent extract from their criminal record to the interview.

The Chairman of the Selection Committee also asked all the members of the Selection Committee whether there was any conflict of interest concerning any of the candidates. All Committee members declared that they had no such conflict of interest.

2.3 Interviews with candidates

The Selection Committee's interviews with the candidates took place on 7 June 2023, under the chairmanship of Mr Roger Linden.

The secretariat was provided by Ms Nancy Carier, Adviser at the Ministry of Justice.

At the beginning of the interview each candidate handed in a recent extract from his/her criminal record and signed a declaration on his/her honour stating that if elected to the position of judge at the European Court of Human Rights, he/she undertakes not to engage, during his/her term of office, in any activity which is incompatible with the requirements of independence, impartiality or availability required for full-time office and that he/she has never said, written or done anything which, if it were to be made public, might be prejudicial to the honour of the European Court of Human Rights.

The interviews lasted approximately 30 minutes per candidate and during these interviews a language test was carried out by conducting part of the interview in English.

Following the interviews with the seven candidates, the Selection Committee deliberated and the members of the committee voted by secret ballot, with each member being able to mark the names of three candidates on the ballot paper.

Following this vote, the candidates with the highest number of votes were, in alphabetical order:

• Mr Jörg GERKRATH
• Ms Marie-Jeanne KAPPWEILER
• Mr Stéphane PISANI.

This list, together with the names of the other candidates, was submitted to the Minister of Justice, who endorsed the list adopted by the National Selection Committee.

Appendix 1 – Curriculum vitae of Jörg GERKRATH

I. Personal details

Surname, first name: GERKRATH, Jörg

Gender: male

Date and place of birth: 10 April 1964 in Ellwangen (Jagst), Germany

Nationality: German

II. Education and academic and other qualifications

• Qualification as full professor in Public Law, Paris (2000 competition)
• Qualification as Senior Lecturer in Public Law, Paris (1997)
• Doctorate in law, Robert Schuman University, Strasbourg (1996), Prize for the best PhD thesis in law (1997), thesis crowned by the European Public Law Group (EPLO)
• Postgraduate diploma (DEA, Master 2) in European Community law, Robert Schuman University, Strasbourg (1991)
• Master 1 degree in international and European law, Université Paris 2 (1990)
• 1986-1996, Law studies at the Universities of Montpellier, Paris 2 and Strasbourg.
• Abitur, Meckenheim R.F.A (1983)

III. Relevant professional activities

a. Description of judicial activities

Not applicable.

b. Description of non-judicial legal activities

• Since 2006: Professor of European Law at the University of Luxembourg – Teaching and research in European Union law, constitutional law and human rights, supervision of PhD theses on fundamental rights, director of the Doctoral school of Law from 2014 to 2019
• 2000-2006: Associate professor of public law at the University of Avignon – Teaching and research in public international law, European Union law, civil liberties law and fundamental rights, supervision of a doctoral thesis on the European Arrest Warrant and fundamental rights (Sophie Bot)
• 1997-2000: Senior lecturer in public law at Robert Schuman University, Strasbourg – Teaching and research in public international law, European Union law, administrative institutions, public economic law, fundamental rights and freedoms
• 1996-1997: Scientific postdoctoral collaborator, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (Essen, Germany) – Research and publications in European Union law
• 1992-1996: Assistant at the Faculty of Law, Robert Schuman University, Strasbourg – Tutorials in public international law and constitutional law

IV. Activities and experience in the field of human rights

Extensive experience in teaching, research and directing research in the fields of human rights in general, public international law, European law, ECHR law and Luxembourg constitutional law.

Participation in the René Cassin European Human Rights Moot Court since 1994, first as a team coach, then as a member of the jury and the Scientific Council. Each year, the René Cassin Moot Court focuses on a fictional practical case relating to the European Convention on Human Rights. It brings together teams of students from European and non-European universities. The course of the competition closely follows that of a case before the European Court of Human Rights. The final always takes place in the Court's main courtroom.

The University of Luxembourg team, led by Carola Sauer-Rappe under my supervision, won the competition in 2014. https://wwwen.uni.lu/universite/actualites/diaporama/victoire_de_l_universite_du_luxembourg_au_concours_rene_cassin

Member of the Scientific Council of the René Cassin European Human Rights Competition (since 2014) https://www.concourscassin.com/index.php?p=organigramme

V. Public activities

a. Public office

• Full professor in Public Law (Professeur agrégé des Universités en droit public), Université d'Avignon, France, since 1 September 2000, on secondment since 1 December 2006.
• Senior lecturer in public law, Université Robert Schuman, Strasbourg, France, from 1 September 1997 to 31 August 2000.

b. Elected posts

• Elected member of the staff delegation and of the bureau of the staff delegation at the University of Luxembourg, since 2009
• Vice-President of the Syndikat (trade union) Erzéiung a Wëssenschaft SEW/OGBL, 2011-2014 https://www.sew.lu/db/3/9785047089676
• Various elected offices at the University of Luxembourg (elected faculty representative on the Governance Board, elected member of the University Council)

c. Posts held in a political party or movement

None at all.

VI. Other activities

• Member of the Institut Grand-Ducal (Science Academy), moral and political sciences section (since 2015) http://igd-smp.lu/membres
• Member of the Board of Directors of the Observatoire Luxembourgeois de Droit Européen (OLDE since 2018) https://eucrim.eu/associations/association-observatory-luxembourg-european-law/
• Member of the Board of Advisors of the European Constitutional Law Review (EuConst),https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-constitutional-law-review/information/about-this-journal/editorial-board
• Member of the Cercle franco-allemand de droit public (since 2000), https://www.dfgk.uni-freiburg.de/fr/
• Member of the IACL research group on Constitution-Making and Constitutional Change,https://iacl-aidc.org/index.php/en/research/research-groups/constitution-making-and-constitutional-change

VII. Publications and other works

Books published (selection)

• Gerkrath, Jörg, (Ed.) La défense des Droits et Libertés fondamentaux au Grand-Duché de Luxembourg. Rôle, contribution respective et concertation des organes impliqués, Larcier, Bruxelles 2020, 417 p.
• Chaouche, F., Gerkrath, J., Silga, J., Sinnig, J., & Warin, C. (Eds.), Droit luxembourgeois et européen de l'Asile, Pasicrisie luxembourgeoise 2019, 412 p.
• Gerkrath, Jörg (Ed.), Les 20 ans de la Cour Constitutionnelle: trop jeune pour mourir?, Pasicrisie luxembourgeoise 2018, 333 p.
• Gerkrath, Jörg (Ed.), La refonte de la constitution luxembourgeoise en débat, Larcier, Brussels 2010, 340 p.

Articles and contributions (selection)

• Gerkrath, Jörg, Peut-on se moquer de tout? L'étendue de la liberté d'expression face au sentiment religieux, in Institut Grand-Ducal, Actes de la Section des sciences morales et politiques, vol. XXI 2018, pp. 21-35.
• Gerkrath, Jörg, Grundrechte im Großherzogtum Luxemburg, in H. J., Papier & D., Merten (Eds.), Handbuch der Grundrechte in Deutschland und Europa, Band X: Grundrechte in West-, Nord- und Südeuropa, Verlag C.F. Müller, München 2017, pp. 167-183.
• Gerkrath, Jörg, & Pichou, Maria, The protection of Human dignity in Luxembourg, in P., Becchi & K., Mathis (Eds.), Handbook of Human Dignity in Europe, Springer, Zürich 2017, pp. 539-571.
• Gerkrath, Jörg, Als krönender Abschluss des Grundrechtschutzes in der EU verlangt die Charta nach einer breiten und dezentralisierten Anwendung, in J., Masing, M., Jestaedt, & D., Capitant (Eds.), Strukturfragen des Grundrechtsschutzes in Europa, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2015, pp. 3-44.
• Gerkrath, Jörg, L'obligation du juge 'a quo' de se conformer à l'arrêt préjudiciel rendu par la Cour Constitutionnelle, Pasicrisie luxembourgeoise, 2012 (1), pp. 479-511.
• Gerkrath, Jörg, L'effet contraignant des arrêts de la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme vu à le prisme de la Cour constitutionnelle allemande, Revue Trimestrielle des Droits de l'Homme, 2006 (67), pp. 713-734.

For all my publications, please visit: https://orbilu.uni.lu

VIII. Languages

Language	Read			Written			Spoken
	very good	well	quite well	very good	well	quite well	very good	well	quite well
a. First language:
German (mother tongue)	X			X			X
b. Official languages:
English	X			X			X
French	X			X			X
c. Other languages:
Luxembourgish	X								X
Portuguese	X								X

IX. (In the event that you do not have the level of linguistic competence required to exercise the function of judge in [the second] official language, please confirm your intention, if elected a judge of the Court, to follow intensive language courses in the language concerned before taking up your duties and, if necessary, at the beginning of your term of office

X. Other relevant information

Not applicable.

XI. Please confirm that you would take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge of the Court

Having lived in Strasbourg for almost ten years from 1990 to 2000, I would gladly return and settle there permanently.

Appendix 2 – Curriculum vitae of Marie-Jeanne KAPPWEILER

I. Personal details

Name, forename: KAPPWEILER, Marie-Jeanne

Gender: female

Date and place of birth: 25 June 1967 in Luxembourg

Nationality: Luxembourgish

II. Education and academic and other qualifications

• Master’s degree in law (option Private law) of the Robert Schuman University (Strasbourg III)
• Diploma of Complementary Training in Luxembourgish law
• Internship and bar admission as a barrister

III. Relevant professional activities

a. Description of judicial activities

. Lawyer

• 1991-1995: Attorney, then barrister at the Luxembourg Bar

. Magistrate / judge [(1) in Luxembourg prosecutors and judges share the same status]

• 1995-1996: Trainee judge (Luxembourg district court, civil law chamber)
• 1996-June 2009: Prosecutor’s Office substitut, premier substitut, substitut principal (2004-2009) at the Prosecutor’s office near the Luxembourg district court: common law crime, child protection and guardianship, family law, including international adoptions, child abduction, domestic violence, environmental law

. Since 2009 General Prosecutor’s office:

• July 2009-September 2016: advocate general
• Since September 2016: first advocate general – I submit opinions to the Court of cassation and to the Constitutional court, attend hearings in criminal cases at the Court of Appeal, write comments on draft law, and participate in numerous work groups.

b. Description of non-judicial legal activities

. International commission on civil status (ICCS)

• 1996-2021: Member of the Luxembourgish section
• 2012-2021: President of the Luxembourgish section
• 2014-2015: President of the ICCS

The ICCS is an intergovernmental organisation that strives to promote the international co-operation in the field of civil status and to improve the functioning of the competent national services. For this purpose, it keeps updated a voluminous documentation on the legislation and the case law of its member States, it provides information and expertise for these States, carries out legal and technical studies, edits publications and formulates conventions and recommendations.

I participated in the drafting of 9 international conventions and 2 recommendations, among which was the Convention (No. 34) on the issuance of multilingual and coded extracts and certificates of civil status documents.

I regularly provided written contributions for the documentation published by the ICCS, notably: Report on fraud in civil status, updates of the Practical guide on civil status, Study on transsexualism.

. Civil status (Luxembourg)

• 2002-2005: Member of a group of experts tasked with the digitalization of the registers of civil status and with the drafting of the first general ministerial circular on civil status (based on national legislation, regulations of the European Union and international conventions).

. Criminal register

• 2009-2017: Head of the criminal register:

I played a part in international work groups that drafted the NJR and ECRIS systems on the automated and codified exchange between criminal registers;

at national level, I implemented the exchange of information system with the other states parties to the NJR pilot project (Network of Judicial Registers);

later I implemented the ECRIS system (European Criminal Records Information System) that organises the exchange of information between all the member states of the European Union;

I also took part in COPEN meetings in Brussels (cooperation in criminal law) on ECRIS-TCN that rules the exchange of information on criminal convictions of third country nationals.

. Teaching

• 2014-2019: Lecturer at the University of Luxembourg (civil law)

. Other activities

• 2009-2012: Head of the Civil Register (guardianships and civil partnerships)
• 2013-2018: President of the Examination Commission for trainee bailiffs
• 2011-2018: Member of the Pardoning Committee
• 2016-2018: President of the Control Authority provided for under article 17 of the Data protection law of 2 August 2002
• Since 2013: Author of annotations to case law for the Legal Documentation service of the Judiciary
• Since 2017: President of the Examination Commission for trainee public servants of the Central Service for Social Care (SCAS)
• Since 2021: Alternate member of the Disciplinary Court for public servants
• Since October 2023: Effective member of the Disciplinary Court for Magistrates

c. Description of non-legal professional activities

None

IV. Activities and experience in the field of human rights

Cf. III (inseparable activities)

V. Public activities

a. Public office

Cf. III

b. Elected posts

• since 2016: Board member of the professional group of magistrates (Groupement des magistrats luxembourgeois)

The GML is a professional association that strives to secure the independence of justice and to defend the rights and professional interests of the magistrates of the judiciary and administrative courts.

At international level, the GML is a member of the IAJ (International Association of Judges) and of the EAJ (European Association of Judges).

The GML regularly publishes press releases on current legal topics and issues opinions on draft bills that affect the functioning of justice.

• Since October 2023: Effective member of the Disciplinary Court for Magistrates

In this function, I have been elected by the National Council of Justice as one of the three effective members of the Disciplinary Court that sits as a court of appeal in all disciplinary cases against magistrates of the judiciary and administrative courts.

c. Posts held in a political party or movement

None

VI. Other activities

None

VII. Publications and other works

The countless publications to which I contributed as a member of the ICCS, or as a member of national and international groups of experts, or as a committee member of the GML, have not been published in my own name, and therefore I cannot quote them here.

On the website https://justice.public.lu/fr/jurisprudence/cour-cassation.html you can find all my opinions in cases submitted to the Court of cassation since 2009 (in more than 140 cases), [(2) The opinions are annexed to the judgment] and my opinions submitted to the Constitutional court.

I would like to highlight the following cases brought before the Court of cassation in the field of EU law:

• Arrêt N° 6 / 2023 du 19.01.2023 Numéro CAS-2022-00030 du registre (the Court of cassation followed my opinion and submitted a request for a preliminary ruling to the CJUE; in the field of social security)
• Arrêt N° 89 / 2017 du 07.12.2017 Numéro 3898 du registre (the Court of cassation followed my opinion and submitted a request for a preliminary ruling to the CJUE; on the definition of a «consumer»)
• Arrêt N° 80 / 2021 du 06.05.2021 Numéro CAS-2020-00033 du registre (request for a preliminary ruling on VAT; on the statute of a condominium)
• Arrêt N° 43 / 2022 du 17.03.2022 Numéro CAS-2021-00028 du registre (VAT)
• Arrêt N° 17 / 12 du 22.3.2012 Numéro 2954 du registre (Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union)

Publications in legal journals:

• Comment on a judgment of the Court of appeal of Luxembourg of 6 May 2020 published in Revue luxembourgeoise DROIT & SANTÉ”. [(3) Éditions Legitech, #05 ISSN 2658-9923 décembre 2020]
• Publication in the Journal des Tribunaux Luxembourg of extracts of my opinion on the rule «contra non valentem», in the context of a cassation appeal that lead to a judgment of the Court of cassation annulling a judgment that has violated this general principle of law. [(4) Journal des tribunaux Luxembourg 2022/3, No. 81 – 15 juin 2022 (on Stradalex Luxembourg)]

VIII. Languages

Language	Reading			Writing			Speaking
	very good	good	fair	very good	good	fair	very good	good	fair
a. First language:
Luxembourgish	X			X			X
b. Official languages:
English	X			X			X
French	X			X			X
c. Other languages:
German	X			X			X
Spanish	X					X			X
Italian		X

IX. In the event that you do not meet the level of language proficiency required for the post of judge in an official language [the second], please confirm your intention to follow intensive language classes of the language concerned prior to, and if need be also at the beginning of, your term of duty if elected a judge on the Court

X. Other relevant information

None

XI. Please confirm that you will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge on the Court

I hereby declare that I will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge on the Court.

Appendix 3 Appendix 3 – Curriculum vitae of Stéphane PISANI

I. Personal details

Name, forename: PISANI, Stéphane

Gender: male

Date and place of birth: 26 Larch 1978 in Esch/Alzette, Luxembourg

Nationality: luxembourgish

II. Education and academic and other qualifications

• 2004 – 2005: Certificate of complementary training in Luxembourg law, University of Luxembourg
• 2003 – 2004: Diploma of advanced studies (research master) University of Montpellier I, private fundamental law, dissertation: the silence of the law
• 2002 – 2003: Master, University of Montpellier I, section: international and european law, carried out as part of the Socrates/Erasmus program at the Nottingham Trent University
• 2001 – 2002: Master, University of Montpellier I, section: judicial careers and criminal sciences
• 2000 – 2001: Bachelor, University of Montpellier I

III. Relevant professional activities

a. Description of judicial activities

• 2023 – Deputy Judge at the Administrative Tribunal; deputy member of the Judicial Disciplinary Court
• 2021 – Deputy member of the Disciplinary Board for civil servants of the Chamber of Deputies (parliament)
• 2020 – Counsellor at the Court of appeal: currently sitting in a civil/commercial division (2021-), previously in a correctional/criminal division (2021) and as replacing judge in the various divisions constituting the Superior Court of Justice, including the Court of Cassation (2020-2021); deputy assessor-judge at the Superior Social Security Council; judge-member of the Superior Disciplinary Board of the Medical Council; deputy judge-member of the Superior Disciplinary Council of the professions ruled by the law of the 26 mars 1992 on the exercise of certain medical professions
• 2016 – 2020: First Judge at the District Court of Luxembourg, Examining Magistrate
• 2013 – 2016: Judge at the District Court of Luxembourg, Examining Magistrate
• 2010 – 2013: National judge seconded to the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR): preparation of opinions, research notes, judgments and decisions, conferences presenting the ECHR to visitors
• 2009 – 2010: Judge at the District Court of Luxembourg, sitting mainly in civil matters and as an interlocutory judge
• 2007 – 2009: “Attaché de Justice” (trainee magistrate) at the Luxembourg (2007-2008) and Diekirch (2008-2009) public prosecutor's offices
• 2005 – 2007: Lawyer with Elvinger, Hoss & Prüssen (2005-2006), specialising in litigation, particularly in banking and labor law, then with Arendt & Medernach (2006-2007) in administrative law and real estate law

b. Description of non-judicial legal activities

• 2023 – Speaker at the YOUstice workshop of the “Zentrum fir politesch Bildung” (Center for Political Education) foundation: presenting Justice to high school students
• 2022 – Correspondent for the European Judicial Network at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)
• 2021 – Member of the commission for the homologation of law; member of the commission for judicial training; member of the commission for the recognition of lawyers' professional qualifications; national expert within the framework of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC)
• 2020 – Chairman of the press card Appeals Committee; member of the Superior Courts Network attached to the ECHR (SCN): drafting of opinions on Luxembourg law in connection with requests for contributions from the ECHR concerning cases pending before it, participation in conferences organised by the network, dissemination of ECHR case law to national courts
• 2017 – Teacher in fundamental rights for trainee magistrates: implementation of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms by national courts and from 2022 on, of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union

c. Description of non-legal professional activities

• 2021 – Safety delegate for the judicial precinct: establishment of safety teams and risk analysis mechanisms, coordination of evacuations and safety teams, assessment of risks related to safety and well-being at work

IV. Activities and experience in the field of human rights

• 2023: Training at the ENM (National school of the French judiciary): the French Magistrate and Human Rights; attendance at the Round Table on the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the Opinions of the Advocates General before the Courts of the European Union and at the Public Conference: Does the Government of Judges Exist? Participation in the SCN forum on the independence of the judiciary and the study day on the abuse of fundamental rights of the Luxembourg Institute for Human Rights (ILDH). Attendance to the SCN webinar: The Present and Future of the Artificial Intelligence Systems in the Judiciary
• 2022: Participation in the forum: judges@europe on the rule of law, as well as the integrity, accountability and independence of the judiciary, and in the SCN forum on domestic violence
• 2020 – Member of the Superior Courts Network attached to the ECHR (SCN): drafting of opinions on Luxembourg law in connection with requests for contributions from the ECHR relating to cases pending before it, participation in conferences organised by the network, dissemination of ECHR case-law to national courts
• 2017 – Teacher in fundamental rights for trainee magistrates: implementation of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms by national courts and, from 2022, of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
• 2010 – 2013: National judge seconded to the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR): preparation of opinions, research notes, judgments and decisions, conferences presenting the ECHR to visitors

V. Public activities

None

VI. Other activities

None

VII. Publications and other works

• 2007: Recent developments on the Luxembourg energy market, in European Energy Review 2007, coord. M. Newbery and S. Goldberg, in coop. with C. Point, M. Rau and G. Dauphin, pub. Herbert Smith, p.191.

VIII. Languages

Language	Reading			Writing			Speaking
	very good	good	fair	very good	good	fair	very good	good	fair
a. First language:
luxembourgish	x			x			x
b. Official languages:
english	x			x			x
french	x			x			x
c. Other languages:
german	x			x			x
italian		x				x			x

IX. In the event that you do not meet the level of language proficiency required for the post of judge in an official language, please confirm your intention to follow intensive language classes of the language concerned prior to, and if need be also at the beginning of, your term of duty if elected a judge on the Court

I confirm.

X. Other relevant information

XI. Please confirm that you will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge on the Court

I confirm.