She is known as a principal founder of the research field of children's law in Norway, and has served as chair of the national Equality and Discrimination Tribunal and the government-appointed Royal Commission on Child Welfare Services.
She became a research fellow in law at the University of Tromsø in 1992 and earned her dr.jur.
[4] She served as Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Tromsø from 1998 to 2001, from 2007 to 2009 and from 2013 to 2018.
She was appointed by the Norwegian government as chair of the Equality and Discrimination Tribunal, a national body, in 2010 and served until 2014.
[1] In 2004 she was the first recipient of the Article of the Year – Scandinavian University Press Academic Journal Prize.