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Arnfinn Bårdsen (born 11 July 1966) is a Norwegian judge. He was born in
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, graduated as
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from the
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in 1992 and took the
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degree in 1999. He worked as an
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at the University of Bergen from 1992 to 2003, except for the period 1994 to 1995 when he was an acting deputy judge in
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. From 2003 to 2008 he was a presiding judge in
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. He is a
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from 2008. In 2018 he took a leave to become judge in the
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.Arnfinn Bårdsen
in
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Supreme Court of Norway justices University of Bergen alumni Academic staff of the University of Bergen People from Stavanger Living people 1966 births Judges of the European Court of Human Rights Norwegian judges of international courts and tribunals {{norway-law-bio-stub