Anne Hellum (born 1952[1]) is a Norwegian jurist.
[2] She is also a visiting professor at the University of Zimbabwe, where she has taught since 1989[2] and where she was involved in establishing the Southern and Eastern African Center for Women's Law.
[3] 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.
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).