Tove Stang Dahl (born Tove Thiis Stang) (9 November 1938 – 11 February 1993) was a Norwegian legal scholar, criminologist, Professor of Law at the

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from 1988 until her death, and a pioneer of "

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'' She graduated with the

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degree in 1965 and was employed at the Faculty of Law directly upon graduation, first at the Department of Criminology and Criminal Law (1965–1977) and then at the Department of Public and International Law. She was one of the founders of the field of women's law as an academic discipline at the University of Oslo in 1975, and became head of department for the new Department of Women's Law (a sub-department of the Department of Public and International Law) in 1978. In 1978, she obtained the dr.juris degree. In 1988 she was appointed by the

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as Professor of Law. She received an honorary doctorate at the

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in 1986 and several other accolades. She played a central role in the establishment of the organisation ''Legal counselling for women'' and the Centre for Women's Studies at the University of Oslo, and was a member of the city council of Oslo 1967–71. She was the daughter of art historians

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and

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, and was married to historian

Hans Fredrik Dahl Hans Fredrik Dahl (born 16 October 1939) is a Norwegian historian, journalist and media scholar, best known in the English-speaking world for his biography of Vidkun Quisling, a Nazi collaborationist and Minister President for Norway during the ...

from 1960 until her death.

Selected publications

* ''Barnevern og samfunnsvern : om stat, vitenskap og profesjoner under barnevernets oppkomst i Norge''. Pax, 1978. (1992 ) ** ''Child welfare and social defence''. Universitetsforlaget, 1985 * «Kvinner som ofre - særlig om hustruvold» I: Nordisk tidsskrift for kriminalvidenskab ; 1980:1-2 * ''Husmorrett : seminar i husmorrett arrangert av Norges husmorforbund i samarbeid med Avdeling for kvinnerett, 10. og 11. juni 1981''. Av Tove Stang Dahl,

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. Universitetsforlaget, 1981. * ''Kvinnerett I''. Tove Stang Dahl (red.). Universitetsforlaget, 1985 * ''Kvinnerett II''. Tove Stang Dahl (red.). Universitetsforlaget, 1985 ** ''Women's law : an introduction to feminist jurisprudence''. Universitetsforlaget, 1987 (1988 ) ** ''El derecho de la mujer''. Madrid : Vindication feminista, 1987 ** ''Frauenrecht : eine Einführung in feministisches Recht''. Bielefeld : AJZ, 1992 ** O direito das mulheres. Gulbenkian: Lisboa * ''Den muslimske familie : en undersøkelse av kvinners rett i islam''. Universitetsforlaget, 1992 (2003 ) ** ''The Muslim family : a study of women's rights in Islam''. Scandinavian University Press, 1997 * ''Pene piker haiker ikke : artikler om kvinnerett, strafferett og velferdsstat''. Universitetsforlaget, 1994

Literature

* Annelene Svingen. ''Tove Stang Dahl : en annotert bibliografi over bøker og artikler'': Oslo : Institutt for offentlig rett, Universitetet i Oslo, 1994 - 33 s. - (Kvinnerettslige studier ; nr 34) (Institutt for offentlig retts skriftserie ; nr 4/1994).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dahl, Tove Stang Norwegian legal scholars Norwegian criminologists Norwegian women criminologists Academic staff of the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo 1938 births 1993 deaths