degree in law in 1871, started a career as a lawyer and in 1878 he became a barrister with access to work with Supreme Court cases.
He was a board member of Kristiania Arbeidersamfund from 1876 to 1878, and started the radical weekly magazine For By og Land in 1876.
Mejdell wrote for the newspapers Dagbladet and Verdens Gang,[4] but later shifted considerably to the conservative and libertarian side.
[4] Other publications are Tankevirksomhedens Love (1877), Om Grundlovens § 112 (1881) and the English-language Independence (1890), in a language he could write but not speak.
En undersøkelse av liberalistisk elitetro and Jostein Nerbøvik's book Antaparlamentariske straumdrag i Noreg 1905–1914.