Tove Stang Dahl

Tove Stang Dahl(bornTove Thiis Stang) (9 November 1938 – 11 February 1993) was a Norwegian legal scholar, criminologist, Professor of Law at theFaculty of Law, University of Oslofrom 1988 until her death, and a pioneer of "feminist jurisprudence".

She graduated with thecand.jur.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 theKing-in-Councilas Professor of Law.

She received an honorary doctorate at theUniversity of Copenhagenin 1986 and several other accolades. She played a central role in the establishment of the organisationLegal counselling for womenand 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 historiansNic. StangandRagna Thiis Stang,and was married to historianHans Fredrik Dahlfrom 1960 until her death.

Selected publications

• Barnevern og samfunnsvern: om stat, vitenskap og profesjoner under barnevernets oppkomst i Norge.Pax, 1978.ISBN82-530-0893-7(1992ISBN82-530-1582-8)
  • Child welfare and social defence.Universitetsforlaget, 1985ISBN82-00-07114-6
• «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,Marianne Fastvold,Tone Sverdrup.Universitetsforlaget, 1981.ISBN82-00-05818-2
• Kvinnerett I.Tove Stang Dahl (red.). Universitetsforlaget, 1985ISBN82-00-07467-6
• Kvinnerett II.Tove Stang Dahl (red.). Universitetsforlaget, 1985ISBN82-00-07468-4
  • Women's law: an introduction to feminist jurisprudence.Universitetsforlaget, 1987ISBN82-00-18490-0(1988ISBN82-00-18490-0)
  • El derecho de la mujer.Madrid: Vindication feminista, 1987ISBN84-404-9123-9
  • Frauenrecht: eine Einführung in feministisches Recht.Bielefeld: AJZ, 1992ISBN3-86039-003-1
  • O direito das mulheres. Gulbenkian: LisboaISBN972-31-0577-2
• Den muslimske familie: en undersøkelse av kvinners rett i islam.Universitetsforlaget, 1992ISBN82-00-21715-9(2003ISBN82-13-02041-3)
  • The Muslim family: a study of women's rights in Islam.Scandinavian University Press, 1997ISBN82-00-22420-1
• Pene piker haiker ikke: artikler om kvinnerett, strafferett og velferdsstat.Universitetsforlaget, 1994ISBN82-00-03952-8

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).