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Hans Petter Graver

Norwegian legal scholar (born 1955)

Hans Petter Graver (born 5 November 1955) is a Norwegian legal scholar. He serves as professor and was the dean at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo between 2008 and 2015.²

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Born Nov 5, 1955.¹

About

He was replaced by Dag Michalsen.

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Companies

Norwegian Academy of Science and LettersChair 2020 to 2022¹²

Early life and education

Date not recordedUniversity of Oslo³

Career

Occupation: jurist, docent, law professor, university teacher.⁷

2020 to 2022Chair, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters⁶
Date not recordedWorked at University of Oslo⁴
Date not recordedChairperson, Norwegian Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities⁵

He is a son of Siren and Petter Graver, and a grandson of Torjus Graver.

He obtained the cand.jur. degree in 1980 and the dr.juris degree in 1986. He served his military service as a lawyer at the Judge Advocate General's office. In 1981, he became research fellow at the Faculty of Law. He was an advocate (barrister) at the Office of the Attorney General of Norway 1990–1992. Since 1993, he has been professor of law at the University of Oslo, first at the Department of Sociology of Law, then at the Centre for European Law, and since 2002 at the Department of Private Law. He is the faculty's dean since 2007.

He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. From October–December 2016 he was a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study based at Durham University. He was awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Helsinki in 2010, the University of Heidelberg in 2017, and the University of Uppsala in 2020.

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Personal life

BornNov 5, 1955, Oslo^{8 9}
CitizenshipNorway¹⁰

Awards

2020Academic Prize¹¹
1986HM The King's Gold Medal¹¹

Sources

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Wikimedia CommonsHans Petter Graver photo by Wolfgang Wee Uncut, CC BY 3.0