Knut Herbrand Kallerud (born 13 April 1956) is a Norwegian lawyer and judge.
He was born in
Kongsberg, graduated with the
cand.jur.
Candidate of Law (Latin: ''candidatus/candidata juris/iuris'') is both a graduate law degree awarded to law students in the Nordic region as well as an academic status designation for advanced Law School students in German-speaking countries.
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degree in 1983 and also took a master's degree in
human rights law
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at
Essex University in 1998.
After two years in the
Ministry of Justice and the Police
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from 1983 to 1985, he served as a deputy judge in
Kragerø District Court for one year. He was then hired in the law firm Hestenes og Dramer & Co, first as a junior solicitor from 1986 to 1989 and a lawyer from 1989 to 1995.
He was a
Public Prosecutor from 1995 to 2008,
Assisting Director of Public Prosecutions from 2008 to 2011 and a
Supreme Court Justice from July 2011.
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References
1956 births
Living people
People from Kongsberg
Alumni of the University of Essex
Norwegian civil servants
20th-century Norwegian lawyers
Supreme Court of Norway justices
21st-century Norwegian judges
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