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Alexander Kornezov is a legal practitioner, judge in the General Court of the EU, and an academic specialising in European Union law.
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Born | 1978 Yambol (Bulgaira) |
Education
editAlexander Kornezov was born in 1978 in Yambol (Bulgaria). He attended the primary school “Hristo Smirnenski”, in his hometown and graduated from the local English language secondary school, “Vasil Karagyozov”.
He obtained a master's degree in law from the Law Faculty of the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski’” (Bulgaria).[1], receiving the highest grades in the State examinations.
In 2004, he obtained an LLM in European Union law at the College of Europe, Bruges (Belgium), where he was among the top five students of the John Locke promotion.
In 2008, Alexander Kornezov defended a doctoral thesis on the subject of the “Reference for a preliminary ruling before the Court of Justice of the European Communities”.
In 2014, he acquired the academic position of associate professor in Private International Law at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Professional Activity
editHe began his professional career in one of the leading law firms in Brussels, Van Bael & Bellis, where he practised mainly in the field of European Union Competition Law, Anti-dumping and Anti-subsidy Law, as well as in the area of World Trade Organisation law. He represented a number of international companies before the European Commission and the jurisdictions of the European Union. During this period, he regularly travelled to China, Hong Kong, Egypt in connection with various anti-dumping proceedings.
In 2007, he began working at the Court of Justice of the European Union as a référendaire in the chambers of Judge Alexander Arabadjiev.
In April 2016, following a selection procedure launched pursuant to Article 3(3) of Annex I to Protocol No 3 of the Treaty for the Functioning of the European Union, he was appointed as a judge in the European Union Civil Service Tribunal.
On 19 September 2016, he was appointed as a judge at the General Court of the European Union.
Three years later, Alexander Kornezov was elected by the general assembly of the members of the General Court of the EU as president of chamber[2],[3],[4]. On 19 September 2022, he was re-elected as president of chamber [5],[6],[7].
He speaks English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Russian and Bulgarian.
Teaching and Research
editAlexander Kornezov taught European Union procedural law at the Faculty of Law of the University of National and World Economy (Bulgaria) from 2008 to 2012 and at the Faculty of Law of the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” from 2010 to 2013.
He has been teaching European Union public procurement law at the Université du Luxembourg (University of Luxembourg) since 2020.
He has given guest lectures at various universities and international conferences, including at Harvard Law School, Cambridge University, Oxford University, Edinburgh University, KU Leuven, Maastricht University, the European University Institute, the College of Europe, Universität Wien, Université de Lorraine and others.
Alexander Kornezov is the author of several books[8],[9],[10],[11] and numerous other academic publications in the field of EU law in Bulgarian, English and French. His publications have appeared in peer-reviewed legal volumes and journal such as the Common Market Law Review[12], European Law Review[13], Oxford University Press[14], Cambridge University Press[15], Hart Publishing[16], Journal of Competition Law and Practice[17], Cambridge Law Journal[18], Columbia Journal of European Law[19], Cambridge Yearbook of European Studies[20].
Alexander Kornezov’s academic publications are cited regularly in the works of other European academics. Some of his most renown academic research concerns the principle of res judicata of judgments of national courts contrary to EU law, the “Acte Claire Doctrine”, access to justice in the field of EU law, judicial review in the field of EU competition law, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU and the social dimension of European integration.
He is actively involved in the training of Bulgarian magistrates and lawyers in the field of European Union law at the Supreme Court of Cassation, the National Institute of Justice and the Supreme Bar Council.
In 2009, along with a team of colleagues, he created the first legal journal in Bulgarian specializing in European Union law – “Evropeiski praven pregled”.
Public Activity
editIn 2009, Alexander Kornezov founded, together with colleagues, the Bulgarian Association for European Law, a non-governmental organisation which aims to enhance knowledge of EU law in Bulgaria, to contribute to the professional training of Bulgarian lawyers’ in the area of EU law, as well as providing the general public with information about the activities, the legislative process and the practices of the EU institutions.
In 2016, he was awarded the “Lawyer of the Year” Prize for his contribution to European Union law[21].
He has been a judge at the Central and Eastern European Moot Court Competition (http://ceemc.co.uk/) since 2009.
Alexander Kornezov was one of the co-organisers of the prestigious international biannual congress of the International Federation of European Law (FIDE), which took place in Sofia from 31 May to 3 June 2023. He was also responsible for the academic programme of the XXXth FIDE congress[22].
Private Interest
editAlexander Kornezov is the author of the books: “America´s Backyard” (2003)[23] and “The Voice of the Mute” (2006)[24]
Private Life
editAlexander Kornezov is married, with two children.
References
edit- ^ Александър Корнезов – българският съдия, който оглави състав на Съда на ЕС (svobodnaevropa.bg)
- ^ "Presentation of the Members". CURIA. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
- ^ Fakto, De (2019-10-02). "Българският съдия Александър Корнезов бе избран за председател на състав в Общия съд на ЕС". DeFakto.bg (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2023-11-05.
- ^ "Александър Корнезов е избран за председател на състав в Общия съд на ЕС". Lex.bg News (in Bulgarian). 2019-10-01. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
- ^ "Presentation of the Members". www.curia.europa.eu.
- ^ "Александър Корнезов отново е избран за председател на състав в Общия съд на ЕС". Lex.bg News (in Bulgarian). 2022-09-22. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
- ^ Fakto, De (2022-09-22). "Българският съдия Александър Корнезов бе преизбран за председател на състав в Общия съд на ЕС". DeFakto.bg (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2023-11-05.
- ^ Kornezov, Alexander (2008). Prejudicialnoto zapitvane do sada na Evropeiskite obshnosti (The preliminary ruling procedure before the Court of the European Communities). Sibi. ISBN 978-954-730-473-4.
- ^ Kornezov, Alexander (2009). Obshnostnoto pravo v balgarskata sadebna praktika: 2007 - 2008 (The Community law in the Bulgarian case law). Sibi. ISBN 978-954-730-581-6.
- ^ Alexander Kornezov (2012). Prejudicialnoto zapitvane do sada na Evropeiskia sayuz (The preliminary ruling procedure before the Court of Justice of the European Union) (in Bulgarian). Sibi. ISBN 9789547307780.
- ^ Alexander Kornezov (2012). Otgovornostta na darjavata za narushavane na pravoto na ES (The Responsability of Member States for breaches of EU Law) (in Bulgarian). Ciela. ISBN 9789542810681.
- ^ Kornezov, Alexander (2014). "Res judicata of national judgments incompatible with EU law: time for a major rethink?". Common Market Law Review. 51 (3): 399–403. doi:10.54648/COLA2014062.
- ^ Kornezov, Alexander (2014). "Shaping the New Architecture of the EU System of Judicial Remedies". European Law Review. 73 (1): 25–28.
- ^ Alexander Kornezov (2020). Chapter "Judicial Review of Commission Decisions" in EU Antitrust Procedure: A Guide for Enforcers and Practitioners. Oxford University Press.
- ^ Alexander Kornezov (2017). "Social Rights, the Charter and the ECHR – Caveats, Austerity and Other Disasters", in C. Barnard, F. Vandenbroucke and G. De Baere, A European Social Union After the Crisis: economic, legal, philosophical and political perspectives. Cambridge University Press. p. 407-432.
- ^ Alexander Kornezov (2015). "When David Teaches EU Law to Goliath – A Generational Upheaval in the Making", in M. Bobek, Central European Judges under the EU Influence: the Transformative Power of Europe Revisited on the 10th Anniversary of the Enlargement. Hart Publishing, Oxford and Portland. p. 241-267.
- ^ Kornezov, Alexander (2020). "For a Socially Sensitive Competition Law Enforcement". Journal of European Competition Law & Practice. 11 (8): 399–403. doi:10.1093/jeclap/lpaa057.
- ^ Kornezov, Alexander (2016). "The Right to Vote as an EU Fundamental Right and the Expanding Scope of Application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights". Cambridge Law Journal. 75 (Part I): 24–27. doi:10.1017/S0008197316000167. S2CID 147758421.
- ^ Kornezov, Alexander (2014). "Imposing the Right Amount of the Sanction under Article 260(2) TFEU: Fairness v. Predictability or How to Bridge the Gaps". Columbia Journal of European Law. 20 (3): 283–307.
- ^ Kornezov, Alexander (2012–2013). "The EU Area of Freedom, Security and Justice in the Light of EU Accession to the ECHR – Is the Break-Up Inevitable?". Yearbook of European Legal Studies. 15: 227–254. doi:10.5235/152888713809813486. S2CID 155520057.
- ^ Yavor Simov, Bulgarian National Television. "Александър Корнезов беше отличен за Юрист на 2016 г." (in Bulgarian).
- ^ FIDE. "XXX Fide Congress Sofia 2023".
- ^ Kornezov, Alexander (2003). America´s Backyard (in Bulgarian). Sofi-R (Софи-Р). p. 216.
- ^ Kornezov, Alexander (2006). The Voice of the Mute (in Bulgarian). Zahari Stoyanov (Захари Стоянов). p. 264. ISBN 9547397958.
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