1. Jens Ingebret Evensen was a Norwegian lawyer, judge, politician, trade minister, international offshore rights expert, member of the International Law Commission and judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
19 Facts About Jens Evensen
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Jens Evensen negotiated Norway's trading deal with European Economic Community in 1972 as minister of commerce in which he served in the governments of both Trygve Bratteli and Odvar Nordli.
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Jens Evensen then served as maritime law minister until 1979.
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Jens Evensen worked to secure government income from Norwegian oil discoveries.
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Jens Evensen grew up in a labour environment in Oslo.
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Jens Evensen was the son Jens Evensen and Hanna Marie Victoria Bjerkas.
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Jens Evensen was originally to take over his father's butcher business.
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In 1936 Jens Evensen enrolled in the University of Oslo Law School.
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Jens Evensen helped the tenants, many of whom were illiterate, and explained the rights they had.
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Nonetheless, Jens Evensen distanced himself from the death penalty eventually handed to Quisling.
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Jens Evensen was granted a scholarship by John D Rockefeller Jr.
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Jens Evensen led the Norwegian Foreign Ministry's legal department from 1961 to 1973.
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Jens Evensen took up the challenge, and proceeded to develop the foundation for the country's legal claims to the Norwegian continental shelf.
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Jens Evensen later became a politician, campaigning against joining the European Economic Community.
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Jens Evensen served as trade minister for the Labour Party.
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Jens Evensen was both respected and controversial and angered fellow Labour Party officials when he agreed to shared management of fishing resources in the Barents Sea with the Soviet Union.
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Jens Evensen came into conflict with foreign minister Knut Frydenlund in 1980, when he supported a nuclear-free zone in the Nordic Countries.
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Jens Evensen remained an international expert on offshore rights and contributed to the creation of economic zones extending 200 nautical miles out to sea.
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Jens Evensen later became a judge at the international court in The Hague, sitting until 1993.