Jane Reichel Vice president

Contact

Name and title: Jane ReichelVice president

Phone: +468162260

Visiting address Bloms hus, Universitetsvägen 16

Postal address Rektors kansli106 91 Stockholm

About me

I am a professor in administrative law and the Vice President of Stockholm University. I have been at the faculty since 2018 and before that I was a professor of administrative law at the Faculty of Law, Uppsala University.

Academic background

I defended my thesis God förvaltning i EU och i Sverige [Good administration in the EU and in Sweden] in 2006 at Stockholm University, within European integration law. I was appointed associate professor at Stockholm University in 2009, within Public law. In 2009, I started working at the Department of Law at Uppsala University, initially as a research assistant in European law, then as a senior lecturer in Administrative law. I was promoted to professor in the same subject in 2014. During my time in Uppsala, I was also attached part-time to the Center for Research Ethics & Bioethics. In 2018, I was recruited as a professor of Administrative law at Stockholm University.

Academic missions of trust

  • Dean, Faculty of Law, 2024-2025
  • Member of Supervisory Board at The Swedish Institute for Euopean Policy Studies (Sieps) Insight Council 2019-2025
  • Member of the Ethics Board, Karolinska Institutet, 2018-2023
  • Editor and publisher of Förvaltningsrättslig tidskrift [Administrative Law Review], since 2014
  • Senior editor and member of the editorial board of Review of European Administrative Law, 2024-
  • Vice Dean and Chairman of the Research Committee at the Faculty of Law, Uppsala University, 2014-2018
  • Member and deputy member of the Faculty Board, at the Faculty of Law, Uppsala University, 2009-2018

Outreach

I regularly teach at Public Authorities. 

 I teach administrative law and to some extent EU law, at a basic and advanced level.

My research focuses on what globalization in general and Europeanisation in particular mean for the administration, its role within the state and in relation to the EU and other organizations. Issues of interest concern how networks of authorities acting beyond the state are governed and controlled, how administrative law ideals of efficient, transparent and legally secure decision-making processes are achieved beyond the nation state and how protection of personal data can be guaranteed. During the period 2011 - 2018, I was involved in various EU projects (FP7 and Horizon 2020) linked to medical research and biobanks, BBMRI, BiobankCloud and BiobankBridgeAfrica. In the latter, I was work package leader for the WP ethics and law. I have since participated as a member of Advisory Boards for Horizon 2020 projects.

I am currently participating in two European administrative law projects, "'Common frame of reference' of the pan-European general principles of good administration of the Council of Europe" and "The Principle of Legality and the Intensity of its Binding Force in European Administrative Laws ”. The research is financed via my professorship. I also participate in the comparative project Constitutional Condition of the Welfare State, funded by STINT, where Swedish and South Korean experiences are compared. I regularly participate in the international networks Privacy Law Forum and Administrative Law Discussion Forum

I am associated with the Center for Research Ethics & Bioethics, Uppsala University


  • Introduktion

    Chapter
    2026. Gustaf Almkvist.

    Sedan millennieskiftet har sanktionssystemet mot företag förändrats kraftigt i svensk rätt. Samtidigt som företagsboten inom straffrätten har kommit att användas på ett helt annat sätt än tidigare, har mängden administrativa sanktioner vuxit betydligt. Utvecklingen drivs till viss del av svenska förhållanden, men till stor del handlar det om implementering av EU-rätt eller internationella åtaganden. Företag måste nu förhålla sig till en komplex förvaltningsrättslig och straffrättslig sanktionsbild på områden alltifrån sådant som korruption och penningtvätt till exempelvis miljöansvar och dataskydd. De materiella och processuella förutsättningarna skiljer sig då åt inte bara mellan förvaltningsrätten och straffrätten. Reglerna kring de olika administrativa sanktionerna spretar påtagligt också inbördes.

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  • Administrative tools for balancing societal and individual interests

    Chapter
    2025. Jane Reichel.

    The fragmented and divergent administrative governance systems for health data in the member states have been identified as an obstacle in the creation of the European Health Data Space (EHDS). One of the aims of the EHDS is therefore to create a legal framework of trusted governance mechanisms within the EU and the member states. In order to ensure access to electronic health data for the benefit of the society, the EHDS regulation introduces advanced administrative governance structures to be applied at the national level. The societal interest of access to health data must however be balanced against the rights and interests of the individual concerned. This chapter analyses the efficiency of the governance structures from the perspective of protecting rights and interest of the individuals concerned via two sets of administrative tools for balancing the competing interests. The first set of tools are legal, technical and organisational safeguards to protect the right to informational privacy. The second set consists of general administrative guarantees for protecting individual interests in the handling of their matters before a public administration, the right to good administration.

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  • Europeisk förvaltningsrätt i Sverige

    Book
    2025. Jane Reichel, Henrik Wenander.

    Det förvaltningsrättsliga landskapet i Sverige har under de senaste decennierna blivit allt mer sammanlänkat med Europarätten, dvs. EU-rätten, Europakonventionen samt annat material från Europarådet. För att som svensk jurist kunna arbeta med förvaltningsrättsliga frågor är det nödvändigt att ha en grundläggande förståelse för hur Europarätten påverkar de svenska rättsliga strukturerna. I boken presenteras förutsättningarna för Europarättens genomslag i Sverige, samt vad gäller EU, hur förvaltningsorgan från EU och Sverige samverkar inom fyra områden:• handläggningsregler för förvaltningsmyndigheter• offentlighet och sekretess• dataskydd• rätt till domstolsprövning.Denna andra upplaga av Europeisk förvaltningsrätt i Sverige är uppdaterad med ny lagstiftning och praxis fram till och med november 2024. Boken utgör ett komplement till annan grundläggande litteratur om allmän förvaltningsrätt och riktar sig till såväl studenter som yrkesverksamma jurister.

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  • The role of European composite administration in the GDPR, the AI Act and the EHDS regulation – what about the rule of law?

    Chapter
    2025. Jane Reichel.

    With the European Strategy for Data, launched in 2020, the Commission has envisioned the EU as a leader in a data-driven society, where important societal benefits can be achieved by ‘unleashing the data’. The aim is to create a single market for data, allowing data to flow freely within the EU and across sectors, for the benefit of businesses, researchers and public administrations. European and national administrative authorities play a central role in achieving these goals. Building on the GDPR, several new acts regulating the data-driven society and AI continues to shape a European composite administration for data based on the cooperation of European and national public authorities. The executive strategy of the composite administration combines a compliance-based approach, guidance and capacity building, with strong deterrents, high administrative fines. This developing composite administration can be expected to have important influences on core areas of democratic policymaking, including collecting and making accessible information and personal data, defining prerequisites for research and technical development. Focusing on the GDPR, the AI Act and the European Heath Data Space Regulation, this chapter investigates whether the European composite administration for data is adequately construed to respond to the constitutional requirements of the representative democracies of the EU and its Member States. More concretely, how can the European composite administration fulfil the two basic tasks of the executive under the rule of law, to ensure that the aims and contents of the legislation are realised and that constitutional restraints of public powers are upheld? The conclusions drawn are that the constitutional setting of the composite administration and the allocation of tasks and competences in institutional and procedural responsibilities remain underdeveloped. It is therefore difficult to foresee how this administrative organisational model can uphold the requirements stemming the rule of law, to ensure that the law is applied efficiently and that public power is limited, predictable and performed in accordance with the law.

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Administrative law aspects of the rule of law

Research projects addressing Good administration, openness and data protection as fundamental rights and The principle of legality in the Europeanized part of Swedish administrative law.

Contact

Name and title: Jane ReichelVice president

Phone: +468162260

Visiting address Bloms hus, Universitetsvägen 16

Postal address Rektors kansli106 91 Stockholm