Lucy Smith
professor · lecturer · jurist
- October 12, 1934 · Oslo
- August 27, 2013 · Oslo
- 78 years
- cancer
About Lucy Smith
Lucy Smith was a professor from Norway. Born in 1934, Smith died in 2013 at the age of 78 in Oslo.
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Full Biography
|Lucy Caroline Smith (née Dahl; 12 October 1934 – 27 August 2013) was a Norwegian legal scholar and professor of law at the University of Oslo. She served as rector of the university from 1993 to 1998.
She was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. In 1987 she became Norway's first female (full) professor of law. She has published the book Foreldremyndighet og barnerett. Smith was a member of the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child. In the 1980s, Smith became well known to the public as the principal judge of the popular quiz show Kvitt eller dobbelt.
Smith was the wife of Carsten Smith, the former Chief Justice of Norway's Supreme Court. Before that appointment, he was also a law professor at the University of Oslo.
Education
After attending Oslo Cathedral School, Smith studied law, graduating in 1959.
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