Ketil Lund

Ketil Lund (born 15 July 1939) is a Norwegian judge.

He was born in Oslo as a son of barrister and director Bernt Bjelke Lund (1898–1956) and Irlin Sommerfelt (1902–1974). He is a paternal grandson of Jens Michael Lund. From 1963 to 1967 he was married to curator Inger Marie Grue; he then married artist Liv Bussoli.[1] He is a second cousin of fellow Justice Eilert Stang Lund.

He finished his secondary education at Oslo Cathedral School in 1958 and graduated with the cand.jur. degree from the University of Oslo in 1965.[1] He first worked as a deputy judge in Ålesund[2] for one year, as a university lecturer for three years and the Ministry of Industry for one year before working in the Office of the Attorney General of Norway from 1971. In 1978 he started a private lawyer's firm, among others with the Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers' and Translators’ Association as a client. He was a Supreme Court Justice from 1990 to his retirement in 2009.

He sat on the commission that delivered the Norwegian Official Report 1988:8. From 1994 to 1996 he chaired the Lund commission, which looked into illegal surveillance in Norway.[1][3]

In early 2010 Lund publicly criticised Norwegian drug policy, stating that the dominant focus on punishment of drug users was unsuccessful and dehumanizing. In criticising Norwegian drug prohibition, Lund follows in the footsteps of Johs. Andenæs, one of the most prominent former professors of law in Norway, and the Criminal Justice Commission of 2002.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Halvorsen, Marit. "Ketil Lund". In Helle, Knut. Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
  2. ↑ Forr, Gudleiv (2008). "Lund, Ketil". In Knut Olav Åmås. Hvem er hvem?. Oslo: Aschehoug. pp. 357–358. ISBN 978-82-03-23561-0.
  3. ↑ "Ketil Lund". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 19 April 2009.
  4. ↑ http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/politikk/article3516250.ece
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