Pieter Jacobus Verdam (15 January 1915, Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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 – 11 March 1998, Bilthoven) was a Dutch

Netherlands

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 politician.

The reformed Verdam was a professor for Roman law

Roman law

Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, and the legal developments which occurred before the 7th century AD — when the Roman–Byzantine state adopted Greek as the language of government. The development of Roman law comprises more than a thousand years of jurisprudence — from the Twelve...

 and international civil law

Civil law

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 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and from 1959 to 1960 its Rector Magnificus. From 1966 to 1967 he was the Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations in the Cabinet Zijlstra

Netherlands cabinet Zijlstra

The Netherlands cabinet Zijlstra was a right-wing rump cabinet with ministers from the political parties ARP and KVP...

. In 1970 he became the Queen's Commissioner

Queen's Commissioner

The Queen's Commissioner is the head of a province in the Netherlands, who is chairman of both the Provinciale Staten and the Gedeputeerde Staten , but only has a right to vote in the latter...

 in Utrecht

Utrecht

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.