Sjur Brækhus

Who was Sjur Brækhus?

Sjur Brækhus was a Norwegian legal scholar and judge.

He was born in Bergen as a son of captain and ship-owner Sigurd Alfred Brækhus and Hilda Sverresdatter Klingenberg. He finished his secondary education at Frogner school in 1936 and graduated with the cand.jur. degree at the University of Oslo in 1941. He was a deputy judge in Eiker, Modum and Sigdal District Court from 1941 to 1942. He became a research fellow at the University of Oslo in 1945 and took the dr.juris degree in 1947 with the thesis Meglerens rettslige stilling. He was married twice, the first time from 1945 to 1957.

He was hired as a docent at the University of Oslo in 1947, and was promoted to professor already in 1948. He remained here until retirement in 1988. He served as dean from 1963 to 1967. His main field was private law in general, and his main work was Omsetning og kreditt, released in four volumes between 1985 and 1998. Sub-fields of note were maritime law, bankruptcy law and court law. Other well-known books are Norsk tingsrett, Bergning, Konkursrett, and Sjørett, voldgift og lovvalg. He edited the journal Arkiv for Sjørett from 1951 to 1970.