Marte Kvinnegard is a jurist with a particular interest in the rights of the deaf community. As a PhD student, she conducts research on the legal status of the deaf, posing the question of what kind of a right the right to sign language interpreter is. Her PhD-project touches upon various areas of public law, including human rights, equality and anti-discrimination law, and administrative law.
Kvinnegard holds a Master of Laws degree from the University of Oslo (2021). She has also contributed to the public report NOU 2023: 20 Tegnspråk for livet submitted by the Tegnspråkutvalget, and has experience in delivering lectures to various organizations.
At the faculty, Kvinnegard has been a research fellow since 2023. She teaches courses on equality and discrimination law. She is also actively involved in the faculty's various projects related to communicating law in Norwegian Sign Language. In these projects, she has produced videos explaining different concepts within administrative law in sign language and translated the Norwegian Constitution into Norwegian sign Language.