Kirsten Sandberg (born 23 April 1954) is a Norwegian jurist and expert on the rights of children. She has served as Acting Supreme Court Justice in Norway, and has performed as chair of the Chair of the United Nations

Committee on the Rights of the Child The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is a body of experts that monitor and report on the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The committee also monitors the convention's three optional protoco ...

Career

Sandberg is Professor of Law at the

University of Oslo Faculty of Law The Faculty of Law () 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). Alongside the law facult ...

, with over 25 years of experience as a child law specialist. She has been a member and Chair of the United Nations

. She served as Acting Supreme Court Justice in the

Supreme Court of Norway The Supreme Court of Norway ( Norwegian Bokmål: ; Norwegian Nynorsk: ; lit. 'Highest Court') is the highest court in the Norwegian judiciary. It was established in 1815 on the basis of section 88 in the Constitution of the Kingdom of Norway, ...

2010–2011, and was in 2011 elected a member of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child as the nominee of the Government of Norway. From 2012 she is also Pro-Dean for Education of the Faculty of Law. She has been a visiting fellow at the

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and the

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Selected works

* *Kirsten Sandberg, Njål Høstmælingen, Elin Saga Kjørholt: ''Barnekonvensjonen : barns rettigheter i Norge''.

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

2008 () *Kirsten Sandberg: ''Tilbakeføring av barn etter omsorgsovertakelse''. Gyldendal Akademisk 2003 ()

References

External links

Kirsten Sandberg, Professor - Department of Public and International Law

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sandberg, Kirsten Norwegian jurists Supreme Court of Norway justices Academic staff of the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo 1954 births Living people