Foto: Ola Sæther
Daughters of Themis: International Network of Female Business Scholars, while a very young network, is proving its worth and gaining increasing interest.
One could imagine that there was no need for a female network in an egalitarian country like Norway, but rather it is at the University of Oslo's Faculty of Law that this network was created.
The starting point was a meeting of female business scholars in 2012, financed with the University of Oslo's gender equality funds. At that time there were only two female company law professors in all of the five Nordic countries. Together with Professor Ola Mestad, I had taken a closer look at the history of female company law scholars in Norway.
Professor Lucy Smith (1934-2013) was a pioneer: the first female in Norway with a doctoral degree in law (1981, in family law), first female full professor in law (1987), and first female rector of the University of Oslo (1993). While Lucy Smith became famous for her important scholarship in children's law, she did not receive the recognition she deserved as our first female company law scholar, including her exc
