Stockholm university

Claes Granmar

About me

Claes Granmar is a researcher and associate professor (docent) specialised in European Law (EU law and the ECHR system) at the Faculty of Law at SU. He is alumni at Oxford University, the UK, where he was a visiting fellow at the Institute for European and Comparative Law (IECL) 2017/2018 and member of the SCR at the college Lady Margret Hall. He was also awarded a Honorary Fellowship at Melbourne Law School, Australia, in 2019. Claes has earlier been a fellow at the Houser Global Law School Program, New York University (NYU), USA, and at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany. Claes wrote his dissertation on trade mark rights and brand competition at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, and at Stockholm University. In the course of writing his dissertation, Claes also worked for half a year at the EFTA Court in Luxembourg. After defending his disseratation at the EUI, Claes has extended his field of research into EU internal market law and EU external trade relations law and policy in the context of constitutional EU law. He is for the time being researching digital globalisation and the EU digitial internal market. Claes is a recurrent course director of the undergraduate course in European law and the director of the elective courses in EU internal market law and EU external trade relation law and policy. Claes is also head of the Nordic Moot Court Competition in human rights law and director of the related course on the ECHR system. Claes is member of the board of the SU law school. He was director of studies 2015-2017 and is a union representative since 2016.         

 

Research projects

Publications

A reality check of the Schrems saga, Nordic Journal of European Law, Vol. 4 No. 2 2021 (Recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: LSN: Other Regulation of Information & Privacy Issues Involving Consumers).