Jørgen Steen SØRENSEN
Justice of the Supreme Court of Denmark (since 2019)
Born on 21 April 1965
Education
- LLM (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), 1990
- Studies at the University of Montpellier, 1998
Career
- Head of Section, Ministry of Justice, 1990−92 and 1994−98
- Head of Section, Parliamentary Ombudsman office, 1992−94
- Head of Department, Ministry of Justice (Legislative Office), 1998−2001
- Acting judge, Eastern High Court, 2001−2002
- Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice (Legislative Office), 2002−2004 and 2005−2007
- Employed at the U.K. Home Office and Cabinet Office, London, 2004−2005
- Director of Public Prosecutions, 2007−2012
- Parliamentary Ombudsman 2012-2019
Other positions and assignments:
- Honorary professor of Law (Aarhus University, Denmark)
- Danish representative, the European Commission for Democracy through Law (the Venice Commission) of the Council of Europe
- Member of the Board of the Law Society in Copenhagen
- Member of the Board of the Nordic Law Meetings
- Member of the editorial committee for the Danish professional journal Juristen
Author / co-author of a number of articles in law journals on, i.a., matters involving constitutional, human rights and criminal issues and of various law commentaries.