Thijmen (Tim) Koopmans (11 August 1929 – 24 December 2015) was a Dutch judge and prominent academic. He was a judge of the
Supreme Court of the Netherlands and the
European Court of Justice.
Biography
Koopmans was born on 11 August 1929 in Amsterdam.
[Family notices in '' NRC Handelsblad'', 29 December 2015.] In 1953 he earned a Doctor of Law degree at the
University of Amsterdam
The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...
. He then pursued a career as advocate and procurator in
Haarlem. In 1956 he started at the Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands, he stayed there until 1962. He made his first move into European law when he joined the legal department of the Council of the European Communities, he stayed there until 1965. He returned to the Netherlands where he became a full professor at
Leiden University, working in that position between 1965 and 1978. Between 1973 and 1975 he also served as dean of the faculty of law.
In 1978 Koopmans was made member of the
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Between 1978 and 1979 he served as a judge in the
Supreme Court of the Netherlands. He then moved once more to European law as he served as judge in the
European Court of Justice until 1990.
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Koopmans died on 24 December 2015 in Voorburg
Voorburg is a town and former municipality in the west part of the province of South Holland, Netherlands. Together with Leidschendam and Stompwijk, it makes up the municipality Leidschendam-Voorburg. It has a population of about 39,000 peo ...
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References
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1929 births
2015 deaths
20th-century Dutch judges
Dutch legal scholars
European Court of Justice judges
Academic staff of Leiden University
Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Lawyers from Amsterdam
Supreme Court of the Netherlands justices
University of Amsterdam alumni
Dutch judges of international courts and tribunals