Knut Sejersted Selmer (7 November 1924 – 25 March 2009) was a Norwegian legal scholar. He was born in Aker as a son of professor Ernst Westerlund Selmer (1890–1971) and Ella Sejersted (1895–1968), and was the brother of

Ernst Sejersted Selmer Ernst Sejersted Selmer (11 February 1920 – 8 November 2006) was a Norwegian mathematician, who worked in number theory, as well as a cryptologist. The Selmer group of an Abelian variety is named after him. His primary contributions to mathemat ...

. He was a grandnephew of Johan Selmer and Jens Selmer and a first cousin of

Francis Sejersted Francis Sejersted (8 February 1936 – 25 August 2015) was a Norwegian history professor and the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (which awards the Nobel Peace Prize) from 1991 until 1995. Early life Sejersted was born in Oslo. He p ...

. He

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his secondary education at the

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in 1944 and graduated with the

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degree in 1949. He was a deputy judge in Nord-Troms and

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between 1949 and 1952. In January 1950 he married Elisabeth Schweigaard. He was a

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at the

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from 1953 to 1959, took the dr.juris degree in 1958 on the thesis ''The Survival of General Average. A Necessity or an Anachronism?'', and also had an average adjuster exam from 1954. He was appointed as a professor of

insurance law Insurance law is the practice of law surrounding insurance, including insurance policies and claims. It can be broadly broken into three categories - regulation of the business of insurance; regulation of the content of insurance policies, especial ...

at the University of Oslo in 1959, and remained here until 1989. He served as

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from 1970 to 1973. His fields in addition to insurance law were

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and

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. His best known book was ''Forsikringsrett'' (1982), and he also expanded on Ragnar Knoph's basic law book together with Birger Stuevold Lassen, issued the fourth through seventh editions of ''Knophs oversikt over Norges rett'' between 1966 and 1975. Together with Jon Bing he organized the "department for EDB issues" in 1971, the current

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, creating one of the world's first centres of research into that type of issues. Selmer he has also chaired the boards of the

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and Lovdata. He was a member of the

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from 1961 and was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the

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in 1993 as well as with the

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. He died in March 2009 in Oslo. A

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of him is located at the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Selmer, Knut 1924 births 2009 deaths Academic staff of the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters People educated at the Haagaas School