Allan Viktor Johnsson Rosas (born 1948) is a Finnish jurist who served as a judge of the European Court of Justice from 2002 until 2019.
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.
In 2019, Rosas was appointed to the European Commission's Independent Ethical Committee[2] Principal publications by Rosas include: The Legal Status of Prisoners of War (1976, reprint 2005 by Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University, Turku); Förvaltningsklagan [Citizens' Complaints] (Turku, Acta Academiae Aboensis, Ser.
A:59, 1980); Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Textbook (ed.