Pieter verLoren van Themaat

Pieter verLoren van Themaat (16 March 1916 – 4 July 2004) was a Dutch law professor and civil service worker. He was professor of socio-economic law at Utrecht University between 1967 and 1981. VerLoren van Themaat was Advocate-General of the European Court of Justice between 1981 and 1986.

Early life VerLoren was born in Rotterdam on 16 March 1916. Shortly after his birth the family moved to Nijmegen, where his mother soon died while VerLoren was only four years old. The family, part Dutch VerLoren family then once again moved, this time to the newly constructed house Grandpré Molière in the nearby village of Berg en Dal. In 1981 he reached the age of retirement. In 1982, he was presented with a Liber Amicorum.

As a result of the accession of Greece to the European Communities in 1981 an expansion in the number of Advocates-General at the European Court of Justice from four to five took place. This new position would rotate among the smaller Member States and it was agreed that it would be first handed to the Netherlands.

In 1974 VerLoren was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Personal life In 1942 he married Marijke Losecaat Vermeer, to whom he was married for over sixty years.

He died on 4 July 2004 in Utrecht.

Works P.J.G. Kapteyn & P. VerLoren van Themaat, Introduction to the Law of the European Communities (1972, 1998, 1989); subsequently ' 'Introduction to the Law of the European Union and the European Communities' ' (2008)