Romain Schintgen

Romain Schintgen (born March 22, 1939 in Luxembourg ) is a Luxembourg legal scholar and former judge at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.

Schintgen studied law at the Universities of Montpellier and Paris . In 1964 he received his doctorate in law and was admitted to the bar . Between 1966 and 1989 he worked as an attaché and from 1987 as administrateur général in the Luxembourg Ministry of Labor and Social Security. He was also a board member of the Société nationale de crédit et d'investissement and the Société européenne des satellites and is a lecturer at the University of Luxembourg . In 1988/1989 he was also President of the Luxembourg Economic and Social Council.

On September 1, 1989, he was appointed as a judge at the European Court of First Instance , where he served until July 11, 1996. From July 12, 1996 he was a judge at the European Court of Justice and resigned prematurely on January 14, 2008. This was due to private reasons; his term of office would have lasted until 2009. In contrast to the practice of many other states, which only send a judge to the European Court of Justice for one mandate, he was, as is customary in Luxembourg, also appointed for a second mandate.

His Luxembourg predecessors were: Charles Léon Hammes (1952–1967), Pierre Pescatore (1967–1985) and Fernand Schockweiler (1985–1996). His successor is Jean-Jacques Kasel .

Web links

• Report in the Luxemburger Tageblatt of January 13, 2008