Bo Vesterdorf

Bo Vesterdorf, (born 1945), judge, former President of the European Court of First Instance.

Bo Vesterdorf began his career as a lawyer-linguist at the European Court of Justice; Later on Administrator in the Ministry of Justice; Examining Magistrate; Legal Attaché in the Permanent Representation of Denmark to the European Communities; Temporary Judge at the Østre Landsret (Court of Appeal); Head of the Constitutional and Administrative Law Division in the Ministry of Justice; Director of the Administration Department in the Ministry of Justice; University Lecturer; Member of the Steering Committee on Human Rights at the Council of Europe (CDDH), and subsequently Member of the Bureau of the CDDH; in 2004 Member of the "Ad-hoc committee on judicial training" at the Academy of European Law, Trier, Germany; Judge at the Court of First Instance since September 25, 1989; President of the Court of First Instance March 4, 1998 - September 17, 2007; Commander 1st Degree of the Danish Royal Order of the Dannebrog from 20-06-2006; November 1, 2007 Senior Legal Consultant at Plesner Law Firm Copenhagen Denmark; External Fellow at University College London's Faculty of Law; attached to St Gallen University Switzerland and Fordham Law School New York; May 2008 Doctor of Laws HC St Gallen University Switzerland.