About the centre
The Institute for Social Private Law is a research center at the Department of Law, Stockholm University. Its work primarily addresses labor law, while more broadly examining the significance of civil law for social life.
From working life to social life, the institute’s research explores how civil law shapes our social existence. Photo: Vladimir Mucibabic /
Research
The research focuses particularly on the development of EU labour law and international labour law, their interaction with Swedish and Nordic labour law, and the tensions between labour law and economic law.
Since 2025, the research has also examined the evolving relationship between employers, employees, and the social partners. Special attention is given to the strengthened role of the social partners in the legislative process over the past decade, as well as the emergence of various forms of tripartite cooperation between the social partners and the state.
Seminars
The seminars in the series Labor Law in an EU Perspective are open to everyone. There is no cost to participate, and no registration is required. Most of the seminars are in Swedish.
Archive of completed seminars and conferences (in swedish)
The Labour Law Library
The Labor Law Library is located at the Department of Law in the South Building, Building C, Frescati Campus, and is available to researchers at the university and to students writing dissertations.
The library contains a large number of titles in the field of labor law. To borrow books, contact the research assistant Billal Zeinu.
The Labour Law Portal
Researchers and practitioners meet here to search directly among more than 1000 articles in the text archive or search for researchers and practitioners working on labour law. You can also publish your own texts on labour law and present yourself and your work.
Newsletter
The EU & Labour Law newsletter covers the interplay between EU rules and EU politics on the one hand and the national labour law of the Nordic countries on the other. The newsletter is published in collaboration with twelve Nordic research institutions.
Governing body
Director: Professor and Vice Dean Petra Herzfeld Olsson
Governing body
- Justice of the Supreme Court Jonas Malmberg (Chair)
- Director of International Employer Affairs David Johnsson
- EU Law Counsel Hedvig Forsselius
- Attorney Erik Danhard
- Associate Professor Erik Sinander
- Associate Professor Erik Sjödin
- Associate Professor Caroline Johansson
Last updated: 2025-12-10
Source: Enhetsnamn engelska