Trude Haugli (born 1958) is a Norwegian jurist, Professor of Law and former Dean of the Faculty of Law at the

University of Tromsø The University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway (Norwegian: ''Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet''; Northern Sami: ''Romssa universitehta – Norgga árktalaš universitehta'') is a state university in Norway an ...

. She is known as a principal founder of the research field of children's law in Norway, and has served as chair of the national Equality and Discrimination Tribunal and the government-appointed Royal Commission on Child Welfare Services.

Career

Trude Haugli is the daughter of the noted lawyer and police executive Willy Haugli. She earned her cand.jur. degree at the

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 ...

in 1983. She became a research fellow in law at the

in 1992 and earned her dr.jur. degree at that university in 1998. Her research has focused on children's rights, and contributed significantly to the establishment of children's law as a research field in Norway. She became an associate professor of law at the University of Tromsø in 1998 and was promoted to full professor in 2002. She served as Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Tromsø from 1998 to 2001, from 2007 to 2009 and from 2013 to 2018. From 2005 to 2006 she was a judge on the

Hålogaland Court of Appeal The Hålogaland Court of Appeal ( no, Hålogaland lagmannsrett) is one of six courts of appeal in the Kingdom of Norway. The Court is located in the city of Tromsø. The court has jurisdiction over the counties of Nordland, Troms, and Finnmark as ...

. She was appointed by the Norwegian government as chair of the Equality and Discrimination Tribunal, a national body, in 2010 and served until 2014. In 2014 she was appointed by the government as chair of the Royal Commission on Child Welfare Services that proposed a new child welfare services act.

Honours

In 2004 she was the first recipient of the Article of the Year – Scandinavian University Press Academic Journal Prize.

Selected books

*''Sentrale emner i barneretten'', Universitetsforlaget, 2015. *''Samværsrett i barnevernssaker: Psykologiske og juridiske vurderinger'', Universitetsforlaget 2010. *''Samværsrett i barnevernsaker'', Universitetsforlaget 2000.

References

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