Kirsten Sandberg Explained

Kirsten Sandberg
Birth Date:	23 April 1954
Nationality:	Norwegian
Occupation:	Professor of Law
Known For:	Jurist and child rights expert

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.^[1]

Career

Sandberg is Professor of Law at the University of Oslo Faculty of Law, with over 25 years of experience as a child law specialist. She has been a member and Chair of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.^[2] 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.^[3]

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.

Selected works

10.1080/18918131.2015.1128701. 1891-8131. 33. 4. 337–352. Sandberg. Kirsten. Kirsten Sandberg . The Rights of LGBTI Children under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Nordic Journal of Human Rights. October 2015.
Kirsten Sandberg, Njål Høstmælingen, Elin Saga Kjørholt: Barnekonvensjonen : barns rettigheter i Norge. Universitetsforlaget 2008
Kirsten Sandberg: Tilbakeføring av barn etter omsorgsovertakelse. Gyldendal Akademisk 2003

External links

Kirsten Sandberg, Professor - Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo Faculty of Law

Notes and References

Web site: Kirsten Sandberg, Norwegian Candidate to the Committee on the Rights of the Child . Ministry of Foreign Affairs . Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Norway) . 2010.
Web site: 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 . Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights . November 20, 2014.
Web site: Kirsten Sandberg elected to UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, press release]. Ministry of Foreign Affairs . Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Norway) . December 21, 2010.