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Jan M. Passer' (born in 1974) is a Czech jurist. He has been a Judge at 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 49–50) Prague, Czechoslovakia |
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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 Court of Justice of the European Union; he became a member of the Tribunal as the second Czech judge after Irena Pelikánová on September 19 of the same year.[3]
He was appointed to the European Court of Justice from 6 October 2020 to 6 October 2024 where he replaced Jiří Malenovský.[4][5] Passer was reappointed for a full six-year term from 7 October 2024 to 6 October 2030 in November 2023.[6]
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