From 1972 till 1979 he was an assistant in criminal law at
Leiden University. In 1979 he was appointed vice-dean of the Netherlands National Training and Study Center for the Judiciary at
Zutphen. In 1981 he was appointed a judge at the Zutphen District Court, from 1986 onwards as vice-president. In 1991 he made the change from the judiciary to the public prosecution service, and was appointed advocate-general at The Hague Court of Appeals. In 1996 he was appointed deputy procurator-general (later renamed as: chief advocate-general) at the Amsterdam Court of Appeals. In 2000 he was also appointed professor extraordinary in human rights at the
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Since 2012 he is professor emeritus. Myjer is one of the founding editors of the NJCM-bulletin (The Netherlands Human Rights law Review) and remained an editor from 1976 until his election in the European Court in 2004. He wrote many articles and comments on the case-law of the former
European Commission of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights. He was a member of the executive committee of the
International Association of Prosecutors (IAP), and was an author, together with
Nicholas Cowdery QC and Barry Hancock, of the IAP
Human Rights Manual for Prosecutors (2003), which has been translated into French, Russian, Armenian, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish and Ukrainian. The second English edition appeared in 2009. Together with Peter Kempees he is the author of a cautionary tale about the European Court of Human Rights: Jack and the Solemn Promise (2010, ). Since December 2012 he has been a member of the Board of the Netherlands section of
Amnesty International and the Foundation
Universitair Asiel Fonds. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights. == Honors ==