Anders Sommar Bruzelius (14 November 1911 – 11 October 2006) was a Swedish jurist, judge and an early collaborator of

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg ( ; Bader; March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until Death and state funeral of Ruth Bader ...

. He earned his jur.kand. (JD) at

Stockholm University Stockholm University (SU) () is a public university, public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, social ...

in 1934, and was a judge on Lund District Court from 1953. He lectured at the law faculty of

Lund University Lund University () is a Public university, public research university in Sweden and one of Northern Europe's oldest universities. The university is located in the city of Lund in the Swedish province of Scania. The university was officially foun ...

from 1948. During the 1960s he collaborated with

, who spent some months in Sweden to co-author the book ''Civil Procedure in Sweden'' with him. Bruzelius and Ginsburg were both appointed as honorary doctors at the Lund law faculty in 1969. Anders Bruzelius was the father of Norwegian supreme court justice and president of the

Norwegian Association for Women's Rights The Norwegian Association for Women's Rights (; NKF) is Norway's oldest and preeminent women's rights, women's and girls' rights organization that works "to promote gender equality and all women's and girls' human rights through political reform, ...

, Karin M. Bruzelius. Ginsburg became a close friend of the Bruzelius family; Karin M. Bruzelius noted that "by getting close to my family, Ruth realized that one could live in a completely different way, that women could have a different lifestyle and legal position than what they had in the United States."

Bibliography

*Anders Bruzelius: ''Rättskunskap'', Gleerup, Lund 1959 *Anders Bruzelius och Ruth Ginsburg: ''Civil Procedure in Sweden'', Martinus Nijhoff, Haag 1965 *Anders Bruzelius, Erik Wångstedt och Marie-Louise Norking: ''Kortfattad engelsk-svensk juridisk ordbok'' *Anders Bruzelius: ''Doctorinnan Erica Sommar född Liebman'', Bruzelianska släktföreningen, Södra Sandby 1981 *Anders Bruzelius and Jan Nasanius: ''Socialtjänstens termer och begrepp: social ordbok'', Skeab/Håkan Ohlson, Lund 1982

References

Swedish jurists Academic staff of Lund University 1911 births 2006 deaths Stockholm University alumni {{Sweden-law-bio-stub