Anne Hellum (born 1952) is a Norwegian jurist. She is Professor of Public Law at the Department of Public and International Law at the

University of Oslo Faculty of Law The Faculty of Law ( no, Det juridiske fakultet) of the University of Oslo is Norway's oldest law faculty, established in 1811 as one of the four original faculties of The Royal Frederick University (renamed the University of Oslo in 1939) ...

. Her main areas of expertise are anti-discrimination and equality law, women's law,

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and

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and African legal issues. Since 2000, she is also Director of the Institute of Women's Law, which is part of the Department of Public and International Law. She is also a visiting professor at the

University of Zimbabwe The University of Zimbabwe (UZ) is a public university in Harare, Zimbabwe. It opened in 1952 as the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and was initially affiliated with the University of London. It was later renamed the University o ...

, where she has taught since 1989 and where she was involved in establishing the Southern and Eastern African Center for Women's Law. She has been involved in research on the rights of women in Africa since the early 1980s and is an internationally recognised expert in the field, particularly on women's human rights and legal pluralism in Africa with a focus on reproduction, land and water. Flerkoneri beskytter barnløse

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She obtained her

cand.jur. Candidate of Law (Latin: ''candidatus/candidata juris/iuris'') is both a graduate law degree awarded to law students in the Nordic region as well as an academic status designation for advanced Law School students in German-speaking countries. ...

degree at the University of Oslo in 1981 and has worked at the Department of Public and International Law at the University of Oslo since 1987. In 1998 she obtained her

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degree at the University of Oslo, and she was promoted to full professor in 2000. She is a member of the advisory board of the

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, and is editor of ''Kvinnerettslig skriftserie'' (Studies in Women's Law).Anne Hellum

University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...

Bibliography

* Anne Hellum and Henriette Sinding Aasen: ''Women's Human Rights: CEDAW in International, Regional and National Law'',

Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII of England, King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press A university press is an academic publishing hou ...

, 2015 () * * Anne Hellum et al., ''Human rights, plural legalities and gendered realities: paths are made by walking''. Weaver Press 2007 () * Anne Hellum and Bill Derman: ''Neither Tragedy nor Enclosure: Are There Inherent Human Rights in Water Management in Zimbabwe's Communal Lands?''. Frank Cass Publishers 2003 () * Anne Hellum and Kirsten Ketscher: ''Diskriminerings- og likestillingsrett''.

Universitetsforlaget Universitetsforlaget AS (English: "The University Press"), also known in English as Scandinavian University Press, is a Norwegian academic publishing company, which publishes non-fiction literature and journals mainly oriented to Scandinavia. U ...

2008 () * Anne Hellum,

Aslak Syse Óslác is a theophoric Anglo-Saxon given name, cognate to Old Norse ''Ásleikr''/''Áslákr'' (Latinised ''Ansleicus'', modern Scandinavian ''Aslak'') and to Old High German ''Ansleh'' (''Anslech'', ''Ansleccus''). It is composed of '' ós'' "god" ...

, Henriette Sinding: ''Menneske, natur og fødselsteknologi''.

Gyldendal Norsk Forlag Gyldendal Norsk Forlag AS, commonly referred to as Gyldendal N.F. and in Norway often only as Gyldendal, is one of the largest Norwegian publishing houses. It was founded in 1925 after buying rights to publications from the Danish publishing ho ...

Akademisk 1990 () * Anne Hellum, Inger-Johanne Sand, Kristian Andenæs: ''Rettsliggjøring, kvinner, makt og politikk''. University of Oslo, 2005 ()

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hellum, Anne Norwegian legal scholars Academic staff of the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo Academic staff of the University of Zimbabwe 1952 births Living people Norwegian Association for Women's Rights people