162:. She was also Chair of the Advisory Committee to the Government on the Revision of the Constitution of Iceland in 2009 and was appointed by the Prime Minister to a Committee of Experts for the Revision of the Constitution, 2005–2007. She serves on the Consultative Committee of the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (T-PD). From 1995 to 2010, Björg was a representative of Iceland in various committees under the auspices of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, particularly in the field of human rights, for example, in the Committee of Experts for the Development of Human Rights (DH-DEV) and the Committee of Experts for the Improvement of Procedures for the Protection of Human Rights (DH-PR) where she served as chair in 2009 and 2010. She was furthermore the representative of Iceland in the negotiation group of the Council of Europe and European Union on the accession of the EU to the European Convention on Human Rights in 2010 og 2011.
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Commission on Human Rights in Strasbourg in the fall of 1993. She worked as a lawyer in the legal office of the Ministry of Justice during the period 1994–1996, was Director of Police and Judicial Affairs during 1996–2001 and Director of Legal Affairs at the Ministry of Justice in 2002. Björg was admitted to the Bar in 1997. She also served as Agent of the Government of Iceland to the European Court of Human Rights during 1999–2005 and 2009–2011.
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During the period 1994–2002, Björg was a part-time lecturer in the
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Protection Regulation into Icelandic law in 2017 and 2018. Here can also be mentioned chairmanship at University of Iceland Press from 2016 and the Law of the Sea Institute of Iceland from 2017, and she furthermore served as chair of the board of the Human Rights Institute of the University of
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After completing her law examination, Björg became an employee of a committee under the auspices of the
Ministry of Justice which from 1991 to 1992 prepared the adoption of Act no. 92/1989 on the Separation of District Judicial and Administrative Powers on 1 July 1992. She was an intern at the
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Björg has held lectures on matters in her fields of research at numerous international and domestic conferences and symposiums. She is furthermore an active public commentator on constitutional and human rights issues. She was a visiting fellow in the
Faculty of Law at the
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opinions, reports and work on proposed bills. Her most comprehensive research is in connection with the
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