Karl Johan Schlyter (1879 to 1959) was a Swedish lawyer and politician regarded as one of the most influential Swedish legal figures of his era, who served as Minister of Justice of Sweden from 1932 to 1936. He devoted his career to two major legal reforms, a revision of Swedish criminal procedure and a replacement for the Penal Law of 1864, chairing the Penal Law Commission that produced a proposed Protective Code in 1956. Schlyter argued for a welfare-oriented approach to criminal policy, publicly contending that prisons should hold only the small number of genuinely dangerous offenders rather than serve as the default response to crime.
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