Petra Herzfeld Olsson
Contact
Name and title: Petra Herzfeld Olsson
Workplace: Department of Law Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room C 876Universitetsvägen 10 C
Postal address Juridiska institutionen106 91 Stockholm
About me
Petra Herzfeld Olsson is Professor of Labour Law at the Department of Law and Vice-Dean for Research at the Faculty of Law, Stockholm University. My research areas are labour law, European law and human rights. I am interested in both national and international aspects of labour law.
I have previously worked at the Faculty of Law, Uppsala University, the Ministry of Labour and the National Institute for Working Life.
Course director for the advanced courses:
The Global Labour Market and International Labour Law, 15 hp
Labour Law, 15 hp ( from spring 2023)
Deputy course director:
Civilrätt C (family law and labour law), 10,5 hp
My research has long been characterised by an interest in the protection of human rights in working life and the interaction between different legal levels. Research questions related to labour migration have also been given considerable attention. On my own and together with other researchers, I have addressed the EU's regulations on labour migration from third countries and their effects at the national level, as well as the Swedish rules on labour migration and their interaction with Swedish labour law, in several publications. This issue was included in the three-year research project A sustainable and inclusive Swedish labour law - the ways ahead (Swedish Research Council), which was completed in 2022. Professor Niklas Bruun and Associate Professor Erik Sjödin, Stockholm University, Peter Andersson, PhD, University of Gothenburg, and Professor Tonia Novitz, Bristol University, also participated. Our results can be found here: https://www.socialcivilratt.se/research/. In the spring of 2025, I began a new three-year research project, The Swedish model in a new era? (FORTE), together with Associate Professor Caroline Johansson and Dr German Bender, which deals with the new role of the social partners in the legislative process. Since autumn 2025, I have also been participating in the ERC project RethinkingWork, led by Professor Elise Dermine, L'Université Libre de Bruxelles. I am also working on a couple of articles about Kerstin Hesselgren at the ILO and as a labour inspector.
- The Labour and Social Security Rights of Captive Workers
- led by Virginia Mantouvalou, UCL
- 2022-
- Towards Adequate Minimum Wages in the European Union
- together with Mette Sösted Hemme
- led by Luca Ratti, Elisabeth Brameshuber, Vincenzo Pietrogiovanni, Universities of Luxembourg, Vienna and Lund
- 2022-2023
- Folkrätten och svensk rätt 2.0
- led by Rebecca Thorburn Stern, Inger Österdahl och Anna-Sara Lind, Uppsala universitet
- 2022-2023
- Reserach Handbook of Migration and Employment
- together with Zvezda Vankova
- led by Guglielmo Meardi, Scoula Normale Superiore, Florens
- 2021-
- Handbook of Civil Service in Europe
- together with Erik Sjödin
- led by K.,- P Sommerman et al, University of Speyer
- 2022-
- Migrant Labour and the Reshaping of Employment Law
- led by Bernard Ryan and Rebecca Zahn, University of Leicster and Glasgow
- 2017-2023
- The Furure of Labour law
- led by Barbara Palli, University of Lorraine
- 2020-2022
