Kirsten Sandberg
Kirsten Sandberg (born 23 April 1954) is a Norwegian jurist and expert on the rights of children. She is Professor of Law at the University of Oslo Faculty of Law and Chair of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.[1] She served as Acting Supreme Court Justice in the Supreme Court 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.[2] From 2012 she is also Pro-Dean for Education of the Faculty of Law. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and the University of Chicago.[3]
Selected works
- Kirsten Sandberg, Njål Høstmælingen, Elin Saga Kjørholt: Barnekonvensjonen : barns rettigheter i Norge. Universitetsforlaget 2008 (ISBN 978-82-15-01193-6)
- Kirsten Sandberg: Tilbakeføring av barn etter omsorgsovertakelse. Gyldendal Akademisk 2003 (ISBN 82-05-31496-9)
References
- ↑ Statement by Kirsten Sandberg, Chairperson of the Committee on the Rights of the Child at the 69th session of the General Assembly – High level session, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
- ↑ Kirsten Sandberg elected to UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, press release, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- ↑ Kirsten Sandberg, Norwegian Candidate to the Committee on the Rights of the Child
External links
- List of publications by Kirsten Sandberg in BIBSYS (Norway)
- Kirsten Sandberg, Professor - Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo Faculty of Law
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