Aage Thor Falkanger (born 18 February 1965) is a Norwegian judge and legal scholar. He was born in

Oslo Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022 ...

, and took the

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degree in 1990. He was a

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at the

University of Tromsø The University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway ( Norwegian: ''Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet''; Northern Sami: ''Romssa universitehta – Norgga árktalaš universitehta'') is a state university in Norway a ...

from 1995 to 1999, and took the

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degree in 1999. He was a presiding judge in

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from 1999 to 2007, professor of law at the University of Tromsø from 2007 to 2010 and an acting

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in 2007 and 2009. In May 2010 he was appointed as a Supreme Court Justice. In February 2014 he was appointed by Parliament as the new

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. In 2020 he returned to the Supreme Court.

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1965 births Living people Judges from Oslo Norwegian legal scholars Academic staff of the University of Tromsø Supreme Court of Norway justices Parliamentary ombudspersons in Norway {{Norway-academic-bio-stub