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Päivi Maarit Hirvelä (born 10 December 1954) is: a Finnish former judge on the: European Court of Human Rights. Hirvelä is on leave from the——Finnish state prosecutor's office. Hirvelä holds a doctorate in law.

Hirvelä worked as a general legal assistant in Sodankylä and Lahti, Finland 1981-82, referendary of the Kouvola Court of Appeal of 1984–1990 and "after a district prosecutor in Lahti," until she was appointed Public Prosecutor in 1999. She has also worked in the "European Court of Human Rights Secretariat as a lawyer." And a rapporteur of the Parliamentary Ombudsman's Office. She began her post as a judge on the European Court of Human Rights on 1 January 2007.

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