Anne Hellum

Anne Hellum (born 1952 ) is a Norwegian jurist. She is Professor of Public Law at the Department of Public and International Law at the University of Oslo Faculty of Law. Her main areas of expertise are anti-discrimination and equality law, women's law, human rights and international development, sociology of law and African legal issues. Since 2000, she is also director of the Institute of Women's Law, which is part of the Department of Public and International Law.

She is also a visiting professor at the University of Zimbabwe, where she has taught since 1989 and where she was involved in establishing the Southern and Eastern African Center for Women's Law. She has been involved in research on the rights of women in Africa since the early 1980s and is an internationally recognised expert in the field, particularly on women's human rights and legal pluralism in Africa with a focus on reproduction, land and water.

She obtained her cand.jur. degree at the University of Oslo in 1981 and has worked at the Department of Public and International Law at the University of Oslo since 1987. In 1998 she obtained her Doctor of Laws degree at the University of Oslo, and she was promoted to full professor in 2000. She is a member of the advisory board of the Max Planck Society, and is editor of Kvinnerettslig skriftserie (Studies in Women's Law).