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Hjördís Björk Hákonardóttir

Hjördís Björk Hákonardóttir (born 28 August 1944) is an Icelandic lawyer. She served as a judge of the Supreme Court of Iceland from 1 May 2006 to 31 July 2010.[1][2] She has also written articles on the law, including Right to Life: a Principle of Equality, published in English in 2015.[3]

Born in Reykjavík on 28 August 1944, Hjördís Björk Hákonardóttir matriculated from the Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík in 1964 and went on to study law at the University of Iceland, graduating in 1971. She then continued her law studies at Oxford University (1971–1974) and at Rutgers University in the United States, where she earned a master's degree in 1979. In the 1990s, she also carried out research at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and in Copenhagen.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b "Hjördís Björk Hákonardóttir skipuð dómari við Hæstarétt". Morgunblaðið. 12 April 2006. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Fyrrverandi dómarar" (in Icelandic). Haestirettur. Archived from the original on 14 June 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  3. ^ Hjördís Björk Hákonardóttir. "Right to Life: a Principle of Equality" (PDF). Scandinavian Law. Retrieved 28 September 2018.