Career
Vesterdorf began his career as a lawyer-linguist at the European Court of Justice before becoming Administrator in the Danish Ministry of Justice, examining magistrate, and Legal Attaché in the Permanent Representation of Denmark to the European Communities. He was a Temporary Judge at the Østre Landsret (Danish 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, and a university lecturer. He was a judge at the European Court of First Instance from 25 September 1989 and its president from 4 March 1998 to 17 September 2007.
On 1 November 2007 he was appointed Senior Legal Consultant at Plesner Law Firm in Copenhagen.
He is an external fellow at University College London"s Faculty of Law and is attached to Street Gallen University, Switzerland and Fordham Law School, New New York In May 2008 he was made Doctor of Laws honoris causa by Street Gallen University.
