Jessica Östberg
Contact
Name and title: Jessica Östberg
Workplace: Department of Law Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room SCCL 663bUniversitetsvägen 10 C
Postal address Juridiska institutionen106 91 Stockholm
About me
Office hours on appointment.
I am an associate professor in and a course director for the course Law of Business Associations. I also teach in company law at law firms and other private institutions.
I am a board member of Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law (SCCL) and also Head of the Department for Company Law and Securities Law at SCCL. In this capacity I regularly arrange and take part in conferences and seminars within the field of company law and securities law. Since 2017 I am also a member of the Disciplinary Board for Public Accountants. In addition to this, I am Inspector for Juridiska Föreningen and chairman of the board of Juristernas Hus.
Before I started my academic career I worked first at the District Court of Stockholm for almost two years and thereafter as a lawyer with a focus on company law and M&A for about ten years.
My research has mainly been focused on the duties and responsibilities of directors and shareholders. My doctoral thesis concerns the director's duty of loyalty. I was a Post Doc Fellow at the University of Oxford, with an affiliation with Christ Church, during the period September 2017-August 2018. The Post Doc-project concerns corporate sustainability in relation to the profit purpose in the Swedish companies act. One article related to the project has been published during 2020 and another more comprehensive article in English titled "The Duty to Act in the Interest of the Company" has been published as a book chapter in a book titled "Instruments of EU Corporate Governance - Effecting Changes in the Management of Companies in a Changing World". Currently, I am working on two articles regarding abuse of power by the majority and the minority, respectively, together with senior lecturer Hanna Almlöf.