Stang and Politics
Immediately after Stang had passed the exam in 1828, he published an article in Morgenbladet about accountability law, which had influence on the Parliament's consideration of the matter and made it clear that the country with him had been given a gift that was much needed as reinforcement of the Faculty of Law. This had two teaching positions, both of which were occupied only occasionally and often with less-than-qualified people. After a time as clerk in the Justice Department (now replaced with the Ministry of Justice and the Police), Stang worked as a "senior lecturer" in 1829, before he, two years later, was appointed as an assistant professor, still only 23 years old Peter Motzfeldt was appointed somewhat earlier, and together the two credit for having laid the foundations for an independent Norwegian law. Stang's lectures over the natural law circulated in summary form among students in 30 years, and his lectures on constitutional law was the basis for the study of constitutional law for decades to come.
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