Rolf Normann Torgersen

Rolf Normann Torgersen (17 August 1918 – 15 January 2010) was a Norwegian jurist and civil servant.

He was born in Kristiania, finished his secondary education in 1936 and took the cand.jur. degree in 1941. He studied at Cambridge University from 1947 to 1948, The Hague Academy of International Law in 1947 and 1952 and at Columbia University from 1952 to 1953. He was a deputy judge and junior solicitor in his early career, and after the Second World War he was a secretary in the Compensation Department of the Ministry of Justice. The Compensation Department was tasked with returning or otherwise compensating for items that had been confiscated during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany. Torgersen was also present at the Nuremberg Trials of 1945 and 1946, and wrote the process document Germany's Crimes against Norway together with Finn Palmstrøm.

From 1948 to 1962 Torgersen was an assistant secretary in the Ministry of Justice. From 1961 to 1963 he aided the Ministry of Transport and the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport with working out the new Public Roads Act. After his official retirement at age 70, he became an adviser in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs and Administration,

Torgersen resided in Uranienborg, Oslo. He died in January 2010.