Katarina Fast Lappalainen

Katarina Fast Lappalainen, associate professor in public law and assistant professor in Law & Information Technology at the Department of Law, Stockholm University. Katarina has a background in public law and is a former tax lawyer. She has published in various fields such as legal informatics, EU law, public law, tax law and human rights law. She is particularly interested in e-governance and fundamental rights issues related to ICT. At present, Katarina is working with a post doc project "Law, Ethics and Government AI-Use in Regulatory Enforcement within Taxation and Social Insurance" as well as projects concerning health data in cooperation with the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, DSV. 

Katarina is the course director for the undergraduate course on Law and Information Technology at Stockolm university. She is also a supervisor for students completing their master's thesis in Law and Information Technology.

Katarina is a member of the Digital Futures Societal Committee and member of the Digital Humanities working group at Stockholm University. 

She is also co-director for the Digital Equality Working Group, Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law and Deputy Council Representative, European Women Lawyers Association (EWLA).

Katarina is the recipient of Stockholm University Teacher of the Year Award 2022.