Iceland / Islande / Island Herdis Thorgeirsdóttir (President / Iceland)
C.V. Professor Dr. jur Herdís Thorgeirsdóttir - President of EWLA
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Iceland@ewla.org Dr. jur. Herdís Thorgeirsdóttir is Professor of constitutional law and human rights at the department of law the Bifrost School of Business in Iceland. She finished her doctoral degree from the Faculty of Law at the University of Lund, Sweden. Her area of expertise is freedom of expression and the media from the perspective of comparative constitutional law and the European Convention on Human Rights. Her book: “Journalism Worthy of the Name: Freedom within the Press and the Affirmative Side of Article 10 under the European Convention on Human Rights”, will be published in May 2005 by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers (Brill), Leiden and Boston. She has also published articles on the topic in well known and respected journals like the European Human Rights Law Review and Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights.
Dr. Thorgeirsdottir works as an independent expert with the network of legal experts on the application of Community law on the equality between women and men for the European Commission. She is a member of the Venice Commission; the Council of Europe Commission for Democracy through Law. She has done pioneering work in gender equality matters in Iceland and was nominated for the gender equality prize for 2004 by the Equal Status Council for her initiatives in this area.
Dr. Thorgeirsdóttir worked as a journalist and was editor and publisher of a popular monthly magazine for 8 years. She studied journalism in London and has a BA degree in political science from the University of Iceland; an M.A.L.D. degree in international law from the Fletcher School of Law in Boston and a doctoral degree in public international law from the Faculty of Law at the University of Lund in Sweden.
She is also a mother of four children, ages 8, 10, 12 and 17.
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