Lucy Caroline Smith (née Dahl, born 12 October 1934) is a Norwegian legal scholar and Professor Emerita of Law at the University of Oslo. She served as rector of the university from 1993 to 1998.
She is 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 is 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.
Lucy Smith is the wife of Carsten Smith, the former Chief Justice of Norway's Supreme Court, who prior to that appointment was also a law professor at the University of Oslo.
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—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
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