Ivar Afzelius

From 1891 to 1902, he was a justice in the Supreme Court of Sweden, 1898–1903 and 1905–1915 a member of the Riksdag, whose first chamber, the Senate, he presided in 1913–1915.

Afzelius is remembered as a precursor of a pan-Scandinavic legislative endeavour, especially the laws of the sea.

He has been characterised as the prototype of an idealistic jurist in the liberal state.

Still, he sought to link Swedish legal traditions to modern (especially German) dogmatic thought, whose reception in Sweden was strongly furthered by his authority.

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