Ivar Afzelius (15 October 1848,

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– 30 October 1921) was a Swedish jurist and politician. Having studied law at the universities of

, Leipzig and Göttingen, he was appointed to teach process law at Uppsala in 1879.

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was one of his teachers. From 1891 to 1902, he was a justice in the

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, 1898–1903 and 1905–1915 a member of the Riksdag, whose first chamber, the Senate, he presided in 1913–1915. Since 1905, he was a member of the

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, and president of the

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in 1910–1918. 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. He was made a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1905, and of the

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in 1907, on seat 4. Afzelius was a member of the men's association

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* 1848 births 1921 deaths Politicians from Uppsala Swedish jurists Academic staff of Uppsala University Members of the Första kammaren Justices of the Supreme Court of Sweden Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Members of the Swedish Academy Members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration Speakers of Första kammaren 20th-century Swedish judges 19th-century Swedish judges Swedish judges of international courts and tribunals {{sweden-law-bio-stub