Paul Ivar Paulsen (13 February 1868 – 12 October 1938) was a Norwegian lawyer and civil servant. He took the

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degree in 1892. He was hired as an assistant secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police in 1899 and was promoted to deputy under-secretary of state in 1908. In 1913, he became district stipendiary magistrate in

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, and in 1918 he became a Supreme Court Justice. From 1921 to 1922, he was the

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. He also chaired Kristiania school board from 1911 to 1912, and worked with grading ("censoring") law exams at the

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. He died in October 1938 and was buried at Vår Frelsers gravlund.

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1868 births 1938 deaths Norwegian civil servants Supreme Court of Norway justices Burials at the Cemetery of Our Saviour {{Norway-law-bio-stub