Ketil Lund (born 14 October 1939) is a Norwegian judge. He was born in

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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 Jens Michael Lund (13 January 1872 – 10 March 1943) was a Norwegian lawyer and civil servant. He was a brother of politician Fredrik Stang Lund, and a more distant relative of Jochum Brinch Lund, founding father Gabriel Lund, politician John T ...

. From 1963 to 1967 he was married to curator Inger Marie Grue; he then married artist Mirella Bussoli. He is a second cousin of fellow Justice

Eilert Stang Lund Eilert Stang Lund (born 15 July 1939) is a Norwegian judge. He graduated as cand.jur. from the University of Oslo in 1965 and as Master of Law from Harvard University in 1973. He then worked as a consultant in the Ministry of Justice and the Poli ...

. He

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his secondary education at

Oslo Cathedral School Schola Osloensis, known in Norwegian language, Norwegian as Oslo Katedralskole (''Oslo Cathedral School'') and more commonly as "Katta",

in 1958 and graduated with the

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degree from the

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in 1965. He first worked as a deputy judge in

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for one year, as a university lecturer for three years and the

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for one year before working in the ''Office of the Norwegian Attorney General of Civil Affairs'' from 1971. In 1978 he started a private lawyer's firm, with among others the

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as a client. He was a

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Justice from 1990 to his retirement in 2009. He sat on the commission that delivered the

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1988:8 and chaired the commission that delivered the Norwegian Official Report 1992: On Lobotomy. From 1994 to 1996 he chaired the

Lund commission The Lund Report (Official title: "Dokument nr. 15 (1995-96) - Rapport til Stortinget fra kommisjonen som ble nedsatt av Stortinget for å granske påstander om ulovlig overvåking av norske borgere", in English: "Document no. 15 (1995-96) - Repor ...

, which looked into illegal political surveillance in Norway in the post–World War II period. In 2008 he was the cofounder of The International Commission of Jurists - ICJ - Norwegian Section. He is a commissioner of the ICJ from 2010. In 2010 Lund, then retired from the Supreme Court of Norway 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. He has been a critical voice in the human rights field, particularly about issues regarding surveillance and coercive psychiatric care.

Awards

Lund received the Ossietzky Award in 1998.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lund, Ketil 1939 births Living people Judges from Oslo University of Oslo alumni Academic staff of the University of Oslo Supreme Court of Norway justices