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Ann Stewart gives the inaugural Tove Stang Dahl memorial public lecture at the Law Faculty at the University of Oslo Norway

Ann Stewart was invited to give the inaugural Tove Stang Dahl memorial public lecture at the Law Faculty at the University of Oslo Norway on 7th March.

 

The title of the lecture was ‘Who do we care about? Reflections on gender , law and justice ‘ based on her book 'Gender Law and Justice in a Global Market' (CUP 2011)

 

Tove Stang Dahl was a Norwegian legal scholar, criminologist, Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo from 1988 until her death, and a pioneer of feminist jurisprudence. She was one of the founders of the field of women's law as an academic discipline at the University of Oslo. Anne Hellum Professor of Women’s Law introduced the lecture. It was attended by leading academics as well as policy makers and activists with interests in gender and law issues within Norway and internationally. The lecture was followed by a very stimulating audience discussion.

 

On 8th March Ann gave a guest lecture to staff and students involved with the Women's Law and Human Rights international masters’ programme. The topic was ‘Disability Discrimination by Association: A Case of the Double Yes’ and involved a discussion of Ann’s published work with her colleagues, Sylvia Niccolai and Catherine Hoskyns on Coleman v Attridge Law in the European Court of Justice (Social and Legal Studies 20 (2): 173-190.)

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Thu 10 May 2012, 18:34 | Tags: Gender and the Law Cluster