Hans Olof Ragnemalm is a Swedish

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 lawyer, judge and professor emeritus

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of Public Law

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Ragnemalm became Professor of Public Law at Lund University

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, and later Professor of Public Law and Dean of the Law Faculty at the University of Stockholm. He served as Parliamentary Ombudsman

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 between 1987 and 1992, and from 1992 to 1995 as judge at the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden

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In 1995, Ragnemalm became Sweden's first judge at the European Court of Justice

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 in Luxembourg

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. In 2000, he returned to Sweden to serve as President of the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden

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 until his retirement in 2005.