Asbjørn Kjønstad

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Asbjørn Kjønstad (6 February 1943 – 14 February 2015) was a Norwegian professor of law.

Career

He was born in

tort law and constitutional law.[5] He chaired the committees that wrote the Norwegian Official Reports 1977:14, 1986:11, 1990:20, 1995:29, 2000:28 and 2004:3.[4] He has been the editor of several law journals.[3]

From 1983 to 1984 he headed the Institute of Private Law,

dean of the Faculty of Law. He also holds an honorary degree from Lund University, and is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[5]

In 2009 he publicly supported Trygve Wyller's unsuccessful campaign to become rector of the University of Oslo.[6] Later in 2009 Kjønstad ran for election (among university employees) for a place on the University of Oslo board of directors.[7] He has previously held such a seat from 1986 to 1988 and 1999 to 2001.[3]

He has also been a board member of the Anders Jahre Foundation for Scientific Research since 2003 and vice president of the European Institute of Social Security from 1993 to 1997.[4] He died in 2015, aged 72.[8]

Anti-smoking

Kjønstad was a member of the National Council on Smoking and Health,

father of the smoking ban" in Norway.[10] He has stated that only 5% of his total work has pertained to anti-smoking.[2]

Pensioner scandal

From 2008 to 2009 he chaired a special committee that looked into the so-called pensioner scandal. Retired members of the

government ministers.[13] Government ministers in Norway may be recruited from Parliament, but while working in the executive branch he or she must leave Parliament, being replaced by a deputy (an element of the separation of powers principle).[14] As such the years which is really spent as government minister can not count towards the specific parliamentary pension, according to Kjønstad.[13]

As Kjønstad did not have a mandate to comment on individual cases of guilt,[15] he chiefly blamed the pension regulatory board (composed of other members of parliament) as well as the legislators in general for creating and enforcing the law in a vague way.[16] Already one week after the Kjønstad Committee delivered its report, the pension regulatory board announced its intent to outsource its mandate to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund.[17]

The case was sent to the

Norwegian National Authority for the Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime. Also, it was hinted that other people might be investigated.[15] In 2009 the acquittance of Bondevik and Brundtland was announced.[18]

References

  1. ^
    Store norske leksikon
    (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 14 May 2009.
  2. ^ a b Solvoll, Einar (6 February 2003). "Han er "røykelovens far"". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). p. 14.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Asbjørn Kjønstad" (in Norwegian). University of Oslo. 17 June 2008. Retrieved 14 May 2009. [dead link]
  4. ^ a b c Kjønstad, Asbjørn. "Asbjørn Kjønstad, CV". Retrieved 14 May 2009.
  5. ^ a b c Norwegian News Agency (17 January 2003). "Asbjørn Kjønstad 60 år 6. februar" (in Norwegian).
  6. ^ Claes, Dag Harald; Gordeladze, Jan Oxholm; Lyster, Solveig-Alma; Hedeager, Lotte; Kjønstad, Asbjørn (30 March 2009). "Wyllers klare visjoner". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). p. 14.
  7. ^ Tidemann, Grethe (27 April 2009). "Mange vil bli styremedlemmer". Uniforum (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 28 April 2009. Retrieved 14 May 2009.
  8. ^ "Asbjørn Kjønstad er død" (in Norwegian Bokmål). Adreseavisen. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  9. Store norske leksikon
    (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 14 May 2009.
  10. ^ "– Kan fortsatt røyke på utesteder" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 28 May 2004. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 11 May 2009.
  11. ^ a b "Pensjonsskandalen på Stortinget". Dagbladet (in Norwegian). 7 March 2009. p. 18.
  12. ^ Kristoffersen, Svein (8 January 2009). "Seks kan ha misbrukt stortingspensjonen" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency.
  13. ^ a b "Mener flere eks-statsråder har fått ulovlig pensjon" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 10 January 2009.
  14. ISBN 82-15-00651-5
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  15. ^ a b Hornburg, Thomas Boe (12 February 2009). "Flere enn disse kan bli etterforsket". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). p. 2.
  16. ^ "Utskjelt styre får ryddejobben". Dagsavisen (in Norwegian). 9 January 2009. p. 10.
  17. ^ Elsebutangen, Kjetil; Ulstein, Hege; Viseth, Ellen (14 January 2009). "Nytt kontrollregime for gullpensjonistene". Dagsavisen (in Norwegian). p. 12.
  18. ^ Skevik, Erlend (6 March 2009). "Bondevik og Brundtland frikjent for pensjonsjuks". VG (in Norwegian).
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