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About Peter Lødrup
- Peter Lødrup (29 August 1932 – 16 June 2010) was a Norwegian legal scholar and judge. He was born in Bærum and grew up in Oslo as a son of district stipendiary magistrate Mentz Darre Lødrup (1901–1968) and writer Evi Bøgenæs Lødrup (1906–1985).
- He finished his secondary education at Frogner School in 1951 and graduated with the cand.jur.
- degree in 1957.
- He was hired as a research assistant at the University of Oslo in the same year.
- In March 1958 he married Grethe Faye.He took the dr.juris degree in 1966 with the thesis Luftrett og ansvar, was a deputy judge from 1966 to 1967 and a docent at the University of Oslo from 1966 to 1967.
- From 1970 to his retirement in 2002 he was a professor, and he also served as dean from 1980 to 1985 and member of the Academic Collegium (the university board).
- His special fields were tort, family law, inheritance and aerial law, and he is notable for his textbooks.
- Notable books include Luftrett (1962 and a second volume in 1975), Barn og foreldre (7th edition 2006), Lærebok i erstatningsrett (6th edition 2009), Arverett (5th edition 2008) and Familieretten (6th edition 2009).
- He also edited Norsk lovkommentar with Knut Kaasen and Steinar Tjomsland.He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1974 and also of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, was secretary-general and president of the International Society of Family Law from 1975 to 1991.
- He held an honorary degree at Lund University since 1993.He was a judge in the probate court in Oslo, and an acting Supreme Court Justice on five occasions between 1991 and 1998.
- He chaired Unifor, an administrative foundation for funds and endowments concerning the University of Oslo.
- He was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St.
- Olav, and died in June 2010.
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