Allan Rosas

Allan Rosas (born 1948) is a Finnish jurist and judge. He is a judge of the European Court of Justice.

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Rosas is Doctor of Laws (1977) of the University of Turku (Finland); and he was professor of Law at the University of Turku (1978–81) and at the Abo Akademi University in Turku (1981–96), also Director of the latter’s Institute for Human Rights (1985–95). He has held various international and national academic positions of responsibility and memberships of learned societies, and coordinated several international and national research projects and programmes, including in the fields of EU law, international law, humanitarian and human rights law, constitutional law and comparative public administration.

Rosas has represented the Finnish Government as member of, or adviser to, Finnish delegations at various international conferences and meetings; expert functions in relation to Finnish legal life, including in governmental law commissions and committees of the Finnish Parliament, as well as the UN, UNESCO, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) and the Council of Europe. From 1995 he has been Principal Legal Adviser at the Legal Service of the European Commission, in charge of external relations; and from March 2001, Deputy Director-General of the European Commission Legal Service.

Principal publications by Allan Rosas include: The Legal Status of Prisoners of War (1976, reprint 2005 by Institute for Human Rights, Abo Akademi University, Turku); Forvaltningsklagan [Citizens' Complaints] (Turku, Acta Academiae Aboensis, Ser. A:59, 1980); Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Textbook (ed. together with Asbjorn Eide and Catarina Crause; 2nd rev. ed., Dordrecht, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2001).

Judge at the European Court of Justice since 17 January 2002.