 Anna Christensen was awarded a "doctor honoris causa" at the Law Faculty at Oslo University in 1994 and at the Law Faculty at Copenhagen University in 2000.Besides her academic work, Anna Christensen was a long time columnist in the Swedish daily newspaper "Dagens Nyheter", and in 1999 she was awarded the "Frihetspenna" by the Torgny Segerstedt Foundation with the following motivation