Ruth Adler
British feminist, human rights campaigner and child welfare advocate (1944-1994)
Ruth Margaret Adler née Oppenheimer (1 October 1944 – 18 February 1994) was a feminist, human rights campaigner and child welfare advocate. She was founder of Amnesty International's Scotland office as their first employee in Scotland in 1991. She was a founding member of Scottish Women's Aid in 1974, a member of the Lothian Region Children's Panel and she helped to establish the Scottish Child Law Centre.
Life
Ruth's parents Charlotte and Rudolf Oppenheimer came from Germany to Britain as refugees in the 1930s. Ruth was born in Devon, where her father was stationed during the war.
Her education began at North London Collegiate School. She studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Somerville College, Oxford and an MA in philosophy at University of London. She moved to Scotland in the 1960s with her husband and children and became a part-time tutor in the Philosophy Department of Edinburgh University for many years before gaining a further PhD in Law presenting the thesis, "Rights, interests and reasoning in juvenile justice". She was influenced by her supervisor Neil MacCormick. Adler was bilingual in English and German and, after obtaining her PhD, she and MacCormick collaborated in translating a number of books by leading Czech (Ota Weinberger) and German (Robert Alexy, Guenter Teubner) legal philosophers from German into English.
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