Laura Carlson
Contact
Name and title: Laura Carlson
Phone: +468162549
ORCID0000-0003-0777-7528 Länk till annan webbplats.
Workplace: Department of Law Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room SCCL 660aUniversitetsvägen 10 C
Postal address Juridiska institutionen106 91 Stockholm
About me
I am a professor in private law at the Department of Law, Stockholm University.
Academic Background
I have a B.A. in history from Carleton College (USA), a J.D. from the University of Minnesota (USA), a masters of laws (jurkand) from Uppsala University, and a juris doktor (Ph.D.) from Stockholm University. I was a fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law and Christ Church, Oxford University during 2014-2015. I was nominated in 2017 by the Swedish Research Council to AcademiaNet as an outstanding woman of science. I am currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law, Oxford Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.
Academic Appointments
My main assignment at the Department of Law in addition to teaching is as Academic Director of International Affairs. This means that I am responsible for internationalization issues concerning student, teacher, staff and researcher exchanges. I am the head of the labor law department.
I am the editor-in-chief of an international publication, Comparative Discrimination Law published by Brill Nijhoff Publishing, and a co-editor of the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law published by Sage. I am a board member of the Berkeley Center for Comparative Equality and Non-Discrimination Law and co-chair of the BCCE working group on Covid-19 and equality as well as the Digital Equality working group. I am a fellow at the Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law and a SCCL board member, and chair of the SCCL Oxford Committee as well as for the SCCL Labour and Discrimination Law Research Panel.
I am head of the labour law department. I am course director for the upper-level elective courses, Equality Law, Comparative Law and American and English Business Law.
My areas of research include labour and employment law, discrimination law, access to justice, comparative law and academic freedom.
I am currently working on several projects. I am the editor-in-chief of the Brill Research Perspectives in Comparative Discrimination Law, which is published up to four times a year. I am co-editor for Sage's International Journal of Discrimination and the Law. I am also a co-editor for a multi-volume encyclopedia om equality to be published by Edgar Elgar 2026. I am also co-director for the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Antidiscrimination Law ditigal justice working group.
I have had several book projects in the past years: co-editor and author for Bridging the Gender Pay Gap published 2024 by Edgar Elgar, volume editor and author for vol. 68 i Scandinavian Studies in Law om Equality (2022), co-editor and author for the anthology, Trans Rights and Wrongs (Springer 2021), author of a chapter in #MeToo and Sweden in Ann Noel (ed.), The Worldwide #MeToo Movement: Global Resistance to Sexual Harassment (2020), and a chapter on Access to Justice in Barbara Havelkova and Mathias Möschel (eds.), Anti-discrimination Law in Civil Jurisdictions (Oxford University Press) 2019, among other publications.
My latest reserach project, Workers, Collectivism and the Law: Grappling with Democracy - A Comparative Legal Study of the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden and the United States, was published by Edward Elgar Publishing in 2018.
Research Financing
Prior to the HRjust project named above, I together with Prof. Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg, in 2017 completed the project, Employment law, copyright and privacy protection concerns as raised by teaching in digital environments, which was granted SEK 5.3 million by the Stiftelsen Marcus och Amalia Wallenbergs Minnesfond in 2012. The final book, The Wired World of University Teaching – Legal Challenges, was published by Ex Tuto in the summer of 2017. I was responsible for the policy section in the seventh framework EU research project, FamiliesAndSocieties - Changing families and sustainable societies: Policy contexts and diversity over the life course and across generations (€ 6.5 million during 2013-2017), which report also came out in 2017, familiesandsocieties.eu. I was also a researcher in the EU project ADPOLIS – Antidiscrimination policies successfully implemented. The project dealt with the success factors of policies against racial or ethnic discrimination that are already implemented in European cities amd was completed in the spring of 2018.
I have been a National Reporter several times, two of my favorite being EU projects within central labour law (the right to strike and the mandate of the union) administered by CGIL, an umbrella labour organization in Rome. I have also been a researcher in another seventh framework EU project, RECWOWE (2006-2012), Reconciling Work and Welfare, www.recwowe.eu.
Research Stays
I was the Stockholm Centre Oxford Fellow 2014/15 at the Institute of European and Comparative Law, Oxford Faculty of Law and ChristChurch.
Conferences
I hosted the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Antidiscrimination Law two-day conference at Stockholm University in 2019, with more than 60 speakers and 200 participants.
During 2020 and 2021 I have organized and participated in several conferences including on the topics of sexual harassment, and Covid & Equality particularly race.
Outreach
I am the Director of Outreach for the Law Schools Global League (lawschoolsgloballeague.com). I am a member of the Board for the European Women Lawyers Association (EWLA.org) as well as for the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-discrimination Law (BCCE,https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research/berkeley-center-on-comparative-equality-anti-discrimination-law/).
I have also participated in drafting legislative opinions and in 2020 submitted a report to the legislative Commisson on Equal Life Incomes.
