Trude Haugli

Trude Haugli (born 1958) is a Norwegian jurist, Professor of Law and former Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Tromsø. 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.

Career Trude Haugli is the daughter of the noted lawyer and police executive Willy Haugli.

She became an associate professor of law at the University of Tromsø in 1998 and was promoted to full professor in 2002. 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. From 2005 to 2006 she was a judge on the Hålogaland Court of Appeal. She was appointed by the Norwegian government as chair of the Equality and Discrimination Tribunal, a national body, in 2010 and served until 2014. In 2014 she was appointed by the government as chair of the Royal Commission on Child Welfare Services that proposed a new child welfare services act.

Selected books Sentrale emner i barneretten, Universitetsforlaget, 2015. Samværsrett i barnevernssaker: Psykologiske og juridiske vurderinger, Universitetsforlaget 2010. Samværsrett i barnevernsaker, Universitetsforlaget 2000.