Sjur Brækhus (19 June 1918 – 19 May 2009) was a Norwegian legal scholar and judge.
He was born in Bergen as a son of captain and ship-owner Sigurd Alfred Brækhus (1879–1952) and Hilda Sverresdatter Klingenberg (1884–1957).
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.
[1] Other well-known books are Norsk tingsrett (1964 with Axel Hærem), Bergning (1968), Konkursrett (1969), and Sjørett, voldgift og lovvalg (1998).