Johan Munck is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 lawyer

Lawyer

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 and former president of the Supreme Court of Sweden

Supreme Court of Sweden

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 between 2007–2010.

Johan Munck was born in Malmö

Malmö

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, Skåne County

Skåne County

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, the adopted son of the lawyer and former mayor

Mayor

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 of Malmö

Malmö

Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...

 Thomas Munck af Rosenschöld. He received a Candidate of Law

Candidate of Law

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 degree from Lund University

Lund University

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 in 1966. In 1974 he was employed as an associate judge (hovrättsassessor) at the Skåne and Blekinge Court of Appeal in Malmö. The same year he was employed at the Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice (Sweden)

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 where he served as a legal adviser (sakkunnig) until 1979, assistant undersecretary (departementsråd) and head of the criminal law unit (straffrättsenheten) from 1979 to 1983, and as chief legal officer (rättschef) from 1983 to 1987. In 1987 he was appointed as a judge of the Swedish Supreme Court. On February 1, 2007, he was appointed as chairman of the Supreme Court following the retirement of Bo Svensson.

Johan Munck has served as a commissioner of several Swedish government commissions and committees, such as the Committee on Genetical Integrity (Kommittén om genetisk integritet), the September 11 Commission (11 september-utredningen) and the Stock Market Security Paper Commission (Värdepappersmarknadsutredningen). He has served as chairman of the Swedish Stock Market Committee (Aktiemarknadsnämnden), the Disciplinary Committee of the Stockholm Stock Exchange

Stockholm Stock Exchange

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 (Stockholmsbörsens disciplinnämnd), the Swedish Broadcasting Commission

Swedish Broadcasting Commission

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 (Granskningsnämnden för Radio och TV) and the Swedish National Collections of Music (Statens musiksamlingar). From 1979 to 1988 he was a judicial assistant to the Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces. He has authored several books and articles related to criminal

Criminal law

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 and civil law

Civil law (common law)

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.

He is married to Kerstin Munck (née Palmquist) and has three children. He lives with his family in Sollentuna north of Stockholm

Stockholm

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. He is an outspoken Feminist

Feminism

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