Masters of the Bench

Róbert Spanó is Of Counsel in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher where he is a member of the firm’s Dispute Resolution Practice Group. He is the former President of the European Court of Human Rights. He was educated at the University of Iceland, the University of Leuven, and the University of Oxford. He was a tenured Professor of Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Iceland and practiced as a part-time Of Counsel for a law firm in Iceland and in London in the fields of public law and corporate law. He was provisionally appointed Parliamentary Ombudsman in 2013 before being elected a judge on the European Court of Human Rights. He served as President of the ECHR from 18 May 2020 to 31 October 2022. He is a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Oxford for the 2022-2023 academic year and a Professor of Law, University of Iceland.