Johanna SchiratzkiResearcher

About me

Johanna Schiratzki is a Guest Professor of Family Law at the Faculty of Law, Stockholm University and a researcher at the Department of Sociology. Her research concerns legal aspects of the principle of the best interests of the child, and covers numerous issues of child, family and welfare law.

Her current research includes the projects "Who decides on a child's health care? An interdisciplinary study on the child's right to participation in decisions concerning care and treatment" and “Fragmented child law – consequences of conflicting rules on child maintenance”.

Johanna Schiratzki has expertise in child and family law. She works with legal issues regarding custody and maintenance with a children's rights perspective. A large part of Schiratzki's research concerns the principle of the best interests of the child as a legal construct. She has formulated, researched and taught in the legal sub-diciplines: Child Law, Welfare Law and Relationship Law.

Latest publications

The Rule of Law and Custody of Children in Sweden – What would King Solomon have done? In: Reichel & Zamboni, Rule of Law, Scandinavian Studies in Law, 2023.

Children’s Right to Have Rights – on the Importance of Statutory Rights for Swedish Children Living outside the Country. In: Adami, Kaldal & Aspán, The Rights of the Child Legal, Political and Ethical Challenges, Brill, 2023.

Relationsrätt. Barn och föräldrar, Norstedts Juridk, 2023.

Research projects

Ongoing

Completed

Relationship law –- on legal consequences of personal relationships

The project aims to analyze to what extent personal relationships:

Fragmented child law – consequences of conflicting rules on child maintenance

Will the decrease in possibilities to get child maintenance support lead to an increase in parental conflicts and leading to economic issues becoming more dominant in custody issues?

Who decides on a child's health care?

The project "Who decides on a child's health care? An interdisciplinary study on the child's right to participation in decisions concerning care and treatment" explores how the interaction between children, custodians and health care staff affects children's right to participation, determination and integrity in their own health care.