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  • Good judicial practice – a checklist on ethics for Swedish judges – with a correct link

    The document Good judicial practice – principles and issues was produced as a checklist by a working-party under my chairmanship. It was distributed (in Swedish) to all judges in Sweden in 2012. Here is an English version of the document. The document consists of questions for discussion rather than answers. So it is not a formal…

  • Peter Forsskål – a forefather of freedom of expression

    In the volume The Legacy of Peter Forsskål – 250 Years of Freedom of Expression, ed. Ulla Carlsson and David Goldberg, Nordicom, 2017, Peter Forsskål – a Finnish Swedish forefather of freedom of expression – is presented together with a translation and a reprint of his Thoughts of  on civil liberty (1759). My contribution to the…

  • My CV

    2014-04-18 Johan Hirschfeldt Curriculum vitae and a brief biography Former president of Svea hovrätt (Svea Court of Appeal), Stockholm, Sweden Born in Stockholm, Sweden 1942 Bachelor of Law 1967 (Univ. of Uppsala and Stockholm) Jur. Dr h.c. 2000 (Univ. of Uppsala) Honorary member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities 2006 Clerk,…

  • Administrative law and ordinary courts

    Parallel Competence of Ordinary and Administrative courts, is an article of mine published in Parallel and conflicting enforcement of law, ed. Torbjörn Andersson, 2005.