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March 13, 2010
Sweden's Supreme Court gets first female chair
Published: 14 Jan 10 10:52 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/24376/20100114/
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For the first time ever, Sweden has named a woman to be the top judge of the country’s highest court.
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On Thursday, the government appointed her to serve as the Supreme Court’s president and administrative head.
The 49-year-old justice is also involved in several other public roles, serving as the vice chair of the Fideikommissnämnden (Entailed Estates Council), as well as substitute chairs of both the Oljekrisnämnden (Oil Crisis Council) and the Prövningsnämnden för stöd till kreditinstitut (Credit Institutions Support Approval Commission).
Lundius is also vice chair of the disciplinary committee of the Stockholm stock exchange and vice chair of the Swedish Securities Council (Aktiemarknadsnämnden).
The appointment makes Lundius the first woman to lead Sweden’s Supreme Court.
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Maybe now some of the male judges might actually hear that rape is not a lesser crime.
Politics is not like mathematics, there is not right or wrong per se, but only mediation between opposing interests and the decision to privilege some instead of others.
So if this country decides that both genders must be represented in the court, then this is what's going to happen regardless of "qualifications".
It is male sexism such as yours, that has kept the highest quality judges from these posts.
Also there is nothing wrong with being liberal. Liberal has a different meaning in Europe to that which it has morphed into in the USA. Look up the word in a dictionary and you will see what I mean.
The fact that I was trying to explain you why these things may happen it doesn't mean that I endorse them in any situation.
On the other hand a supreme court, similarly to the parlament, should represent the spirit of a country, which means that cultural background should be considered as important as the perfect knowledge and practice of constitutional law, which I assume is your only criterium. The composition of the US supreme court goes in the same direction.