In 1953 he left the Ministry of Justice, being appointed as a lecturer at the University of Oslo. He spent a period from 1947 to 1948 in the United States this resulted in the book Rettsvesen og rettsvitenskap i USA (1953).

In 1945 he was hired in the Ministry of Justice and the Police, where he was promoted to assistant secretary after one year. His 1945 book Rettskraft earned him the dr.juris degree in 1947. He then became a lecturer of law, and released several books during World War II. degree in 1938, and worked as a deputy judge on the island of Senja until 1940. Career Įckhoff finished his secondary education in 1934, and enrolled in law studies at the University of Oslo. In 1941 he married psychologist Eva Bergliot Råness (1921–1991). He was a brother of designer Mathias Gerrard Eckhoff, a second cousin of jurist Ernst Fredrik Eckhoff and actor Johannes Eckhoff, and a grandnephew of architect Niels Stockfleth Darre Eckhoff. He was born in Vestre Slidre as the son of shipmaster Trygve Eckhoff (1884–1957) and his wife Sigrid Einang (1886–1971). Torstein Einang Eckhoff (5 June 1916 – 17 April 1993) was a Norwegian civil servant and professor of law at the University of Oslo. Norwegian civil servant and professor of law

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