Peter Lødrup

Who was Peter Lødrup?

Peter Lødrup 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 and writer Evi Bøgenæs Lødrup. 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. His special fields were tort, family law, inheritance and aerial law, and he is notable for his textbooks. Notable books include Luftrett, Barn og foreldre, Lærebok i erstatningsrett, Arverett and Familieretten. He also edited Norsk lovkommentar with Knut Kaasen and Steinar Tjomsland.