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Ragnhild Hennum

Professor
Ragnhild Hennum
Pro-Rector of University of Oslo
In office
2014–2017
Preceded by Ruth Vatvedt Fjeld
Succeeded by Gro Bjørnerud Mo
President of the Norwegian Women's Lobby
Assumed office
2017
Preceded by Gunhild Vehusheia
Personal details
Born (1967-06-11) 11 June 1967 (age 50)
Profession Law professor

Ragnhild Helene Hennum (born 11 June 1967) is a Norwegian jurist, academic administrator and women's rights leader. She is Professor of Public Law at the University of Oslo Faculty of Law and served as Pro-Rector of the University of Oslo, the university's second highest official, 2014–2017. She previously served as the university's Vice-Rector 2009–2014. Hennum's research fields are criminal law, criminal procedure and sociology of law, and she is a specialist on child sexual abuse, sexual violence in general and forced marriage. She is President of the Norwegian Women's Lobby, the umbrella organisation for the Norwegian women's movement.

Hennum earned her cand.jur. (LL.M.) degree at the University of Oslo in 1991 and her doctorate at the same university in 1999. She was employed by the University of Oslo Faculty of Law as a researcher, research fellow, postdoctoral fellow and assistant professor from 1992 to 2003. She became Associate Professor of Public Law in 2004 and Professor of Public Law in 2007, both at the Department of Public and International Law. In 2009 she was appointed by newly elected Rector Ole Petter Ottersen as Vice-Rector of the university, and continued in this office following Ottersen's reelection in 2013; in 2014 she became Pro-Rector, the deputy of the Rector and the university's second highest official.

She chaired the Royal Commission on Compensation for Victims of Violence (Voldsoffererstatningsutvalget), appointed by the King-in-Council in 2015, which presented Norwegian Official Report 2016: 9 Rettferdig og forutsigbar – voldsskadeerstatning and proposed a new statute on compensation for victims of violence. She was a member of the Royal Commission on Rape (Voldtektsutvalget) appointed in 2006 and the Royal Commission on the Use of Juries in Criminal Proceedings (Juryutvalget) appointed in 2010.


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