Report 2003 - EFTA Court

Chapter II. Judges and Staff
Thorgeir ÖRLYGSSON
Judge of the EFTA Court (2003)
Born 13 November 1952 in Reykjavík, Iceland.
Graduation from the University of Iceland 1978. LL.M.
(Public and Private International Law) from Harvard Law
School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, in 1980.
Assistant Judge, City Court of Reykjavík, 1978 – 1982.
Legal Secretary to the Supreme Court Justices, Supreme
Court of Iceland, 1982 – 1984. Associate Professor,
Faculty of Law, University of Iceland, 1984 – 1986.
Judge, City Court of Reykjavík, 1986 – 1987. Professor
(Property Law, Law of Obligations, Private International
Law), Faculty of Law, University of Iceland, 1987 – 1999.
Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Iceland, 1995 – 1997. Vice – President of the
University of Iceland, 1996 –1997. Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Industry and
Trade of Iceland, 1999 – 2002. Judge of the EFTA Court from 1 January 2003.
Chairman of the Icelandic Patent and Trade Mark Appeal Committee from 1984 – 1990.
Chairman of the Icelandic Data Protection Commission from 1986 – 1999.
Lucien DEDICHEN
Born 14 February 1962 in Oslo, Norway.
Studies: University of Oslo 1983 – 1990, cand. jur;
College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium 1988 – 1989,
Diploma of Advanced European Legal Studies; Faculté de
Droit et de Science Politique d’Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-
Provence, France 1987/1988; Royal Norwegian Naval
Academy (OMA III) 1980 – 1982, second lieutenant,
including one year active duty as officer in the 23 rd fast
patrol boat squadron.
Professional career: Junior adviser, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, Oslo, Norway, 1990/1991; trainee, Legal Affairs
department of the EFTA Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland,
1991; legal officer, Legal Affairs department of the EFTA Secretariat, Geneva,
Switzerland 1991 – 1992; legal officer, Legal Affairs department and the EEA
Coordination Unit of the EFTA Secretariat, Brussels, Belgium 1992 – 1999; legal
consultant, TelePluss AS, 1999 – 2000; Registrar of the EFTA Court since 1 September
2001.
Publications: co-author: EEA Law, A commentary on the EEA Agreement, CE Fritzes
AB 1993; “Securing a smooth shift between the two EEA pillars: prolonged
competence of EFTA institutions with respect to former EFTA States after their
accession to the European Union,” CMLR 32, 1995; EØS håndboken, EØS-avtalen –
innhold og praktisering, Universitetsforlaget 1998.
Photo: Pierre Lindberg
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