Matilda Arvidsson Universitetslektor

Matilda undervisar på grund- och avancerad nivå i folkrätt, och är kursföreståndare för kursen Human Rights in a Global Perspective.

Gästlärare (ett urval): 2025- Luleå tekniska universitet; 2022- Université Catholique de Lille, Faculté Libre de Droit, Paris, Frankrike; 2017- Lunds universitet, Juridiska Fakulteten

2026

• Arvidsson (2026), ‘Jennifer Orlando-Salling, Decolonising European Constitution(alism): Perspectives from Malta. PhD dissertation defended at the Faculty of Law, Copenhagen University, Denmark, 2026‘, Europarättslig tidskrift, vol.4 Accepted. Forthcoming 2026.
• Arvidsson & K. Tranter (eds) (2026) Special issue: “Orderings of Human-Artificial Intelligent Constructs” 8(2) (2026) Law, Technology and Humans, https://doi.org/10.5204/lthj.4923.
• Arvidsson & K. Tranter (2026) ‘Introduction: Ordering of Human-Artificial Intelligent Constructs’, 8(2) (2026) Law, Technology and Humans, pp. 1-6. https://lthj.qut.edu.au/article/view/4923
• Lindgren, M. Arvidsson, E. van Den Broeck, D. Casey, D. Coello Mollo, L. Colonna, V. Fantasia, A. Foka, F. Lorig, L. Rahm, P. Sanches, and J. Tucker (2026) ‘Educating Artificial Intelligence for Humanity and Society – A Blueprint.’ Proceedings of the INTED2026 conference, article 2163, published 13 March 2026, https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2026.2163.
• Arvidsson, D. Gandorfer, & D. McQuillan (2026) ‘New Digital Technologies, Law, and a Non-Fascist Life? On Global Governance, Digital Networks, and the Molecular Unconscious’, in G. Sullivan, F. Johns, and D. Van Den Meerssche (eds) Global Governance by Data. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 328–360.
• Arvidsson & G. Noll (2026) ‘Carl Schmitt in Russia and China: A Revival for Großraum Analytics in International Law?’, in M. Klamberg, K. Svanberg and L. Rönnelid (eds.) Reconstructing Power and Hegemony in Public International Law. T.M. Asser Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-743-4.

2025

• Arvidsson & S. Larsson (2025) ‘Fulfilling the Christian Mission Through Law: The Mission Covenant Church of Sweden as a Legal Actor in Congo 1881–1908’, Studia Theologica 79(1):1–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/0039338X.2025.2470720
• Arvidsson (2025) ‘On Gardens of the Anthropocene: Gendered Violence, Colonial Legal Enclosures, and Feminist Posthuman Kinship’, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 16:136–166. https://doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2025.00.11
• Arvidsson (2025) ‘Are present concerns on Artificial Intelligence really all that new? On Kerstin Anér’s contribution to data law and policy debates during the Cold War and today’, in Acta Regiae. Gothenburg: The Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg (KVVS). 14 pages. https://hdl.handle.net/2077/89944
• Arvidsson (2025) ‘Jurisprudence of Gardens: International Law, Architecture, and Gardens of Multitudes,’ in R. Voss, S. Stolk & M. Bak McKenna (eds) International Law and Architecture. Elgar Publishers, 19–39.
• Herlin-Karnell & M. Arvidsson (eds) (2025) Animal Law and Jurisprudence: The EU and Beyond. Symposium, Verfassungsblog. Not ranked. Also available in a separate format as an Open Access edited volume: E. Herlin-Karnell & M. Arvidsson (eds) (2025) Animal Rights and The Role of the EU Charter. Verfassungsbooks. DOI: 10.17176/20250929-134048-0
• Herlin-Karnell & M. Arvidsson (2025) “Animal Law Jurisprudence in the EU and Beyond – The Role of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights”, in Symposium on ‘Animal Law and Jurisprudence: EU Law and Beyond,’ Völkerechtblogg. Not ranked. Also available in E. Herlin-Karnell & M. Arvidsson (eds) (2025) Animal Rights and The Role of the EU Charter. Berlin: Verfassungsbooks, 11–17.

2024

• Bak McKenna & M. Arvidsson (2024) ‘Gendering Public and Private International Law: Transversal Legal Histories of the State, Market and Women’s Private Property Rights’ American Journal of International Law (AJIL) Unbound Symposium in memory of Karen Knop 118:12–17. doi:10.1017/aju.2023.53.
• Arvidsson (2024) ‘De-Colonial, Intergenerational and Transversal Posthuman Feminist Alliances – Also In, (Be)For(e) and Beyond Feminist Legal Scholarship of the Nordics,’ in E. Björling, H. Gustafsson, S. Kouvo & W. Svedberg Andersson (eds) Festskrift till Eva-Maria Svensson. Iustus Förlag, 39–56.
• Arvidsson & P. Bengtsen (2024) ‘Just Urban Space: Street art and Spatial Justice,’ in E. Hannerz & P. Bengtsen (eds) Urban Creativity: Essays on Interventions in Public Space. Dokument Press Akademi, 21–42.
• Arvidsson (2024) ‘International Law PhD Supervision Pedagogy: A Psycho/Analytical Situation of Counter/Transference,’ in L. Brännström, M. Gunneflo, A. Parsa (eds) The Significance of Gregor Noll. Livonia Print, 107–118.
• Arvidsson & E. Jones (eds) (2024) International Law and Posthuman Theory. Abingdon: Routledge.
• Arvidsson (2024) ‘Posthuman feminism as a theoretical and methodological approach to international law’ in M. Arvidsson & E. Jones (eds) International Law and Posthuman Theory. Abingdon: Routledge, 31–59
• Jones & M. Arvidsson (2024) ‘Introduction to International Law and Posthuman Theory’, in M. Arvidsson & E. Jones (eds) International Law and Posthuman Theory. Abingdon: Routledge, 1–27.
• Akhtar-Khavari, M. Arvidsson, C. Parsley (2024) ‘The Inhuman as the Human’, Critical Legal Thinking, blog post, 20 September 2024
• Arvidsson, G. González Fuster & J. Pohle (2024) ‘Kerstin Anér, Pioneering Thinker of Data Power - Towards A Critical Reimagining the History of Data Law and Policy’, Critical Legal Thinking Blog 30 July 2024

2023

• Arguello, M. Arvidsson & N. Krabbe (2023) ‘Marine Ecosystem Bodies as Entangled Environments and Entangled Laws: Drones and the Marine Environment’, AJIL Unbound 117:145–50. doi:10.1017/aju.2023.19.
• Arvidsson & G. Noll (eds) (2023) ‘AI-Supported Decision-Making and International Law’, 94(2) Nordic Journal of International Law. Special issue: editor. Online publication 1 May 2023.
• Arvidsson & G. Noll (2023) ‘Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Decision Making, and International Law’, 92(1) Nordic Journal of International Law, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718107-bja10060
• Arvidsson & G. Noll (statistical analysis contributions from E. Lorentzen & M. Sundén) (2023) ‘Decision Making in Asylum Law and Machine Learning: Autoethnographic Lessons Learned on Data Wrangling and Human Discretion’, 92(1) Nordic Journal of International Law, 133–69. doi:10.1163/15718107-bja10057.
• Korhonnen, M. Bruncevic & M. Arvidsson (2023) ‘Subjecthood in Cyberspace and the Uncanny Valley of International Law’, 92(1) Nordic Journal of International Law, 82–113. doi:10.1163/15718107-bja10058.
• Arvidsson & B. Sjöstedt (2023) ’Ordering Human-Other relationships: International Humanitarian Law and Ecologies of Armed Conflicts’, in F. Mégret, U. Natarajan, & V. Chapaux (eds) International Law and Anthropocentrism. Abingdon: Routledge, 122–41.
• Arvidsson (2023) ‘Post-humanitarian international law’ in R. Braidotti, E. Jones, and G. Klumbyte (eds) More Posthuman Glossary. London, Bloomsbury, 113–15.

2022

• Arvidsson (2022), ‘Laugh all you Medusas! Écriture feminine as feminist legal translation, transformation, transgression, and translactation in the age of Ai and the Anthropocene,’ 47(2) Australian Feminist Law Journal, 283–97, doi: 10.1080/13200968.2021.2083781.
• Arvidsson & M. Elander (2022) ‘Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Gender and International Law’, Oxford Bibliographies in International Law. Oxford University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199796953-0239.

2021

• Arvidsson (2021) ’Maskininlärning och rättsligt beslutsfattande: Migrationsrättsliga frågor och AI’ in G. Noll (ed.) AI, digitalisering och rätten. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
• Arvidsson (2021) ‘The “Human” in International Humanitarian Law’ in S. Pahuja & S. Chalmers (eds) International Law and the Humanities. Abingdon: Routledge, 422–31. doi: 10.4324/9781003201120-8.

2020

• Arvidsson (2020), ‘The “turn to history” and the year of the yearbook of international law’, in: O. Spijkers, W.G. Werner, and R.A. Wessel, (eds) Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2019. Netherlands Yearbook of International Law, vol 50. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-403-7_2, 9–20.
• Arvidsson (2020), ‘The swarm that we already are: Artificially Intelligent (AI) swarming “insect drones”, targeting and international humanitarian law in a posthuman ecology’, 11(1) Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 114–37. https://doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2020.01.05 Level 1
• Arvidsson & M. Bak McKenna (2020) ‘The Turn to History in International Law and the Sources Doctrine: Critical Approaches and Methodological Imaginaries’, 33(1) Leiden Journal of International Law, 37–56. doi:10.1017/S0922156519000542.
• Arvidsson, L. Brännström & P. Minkkinen (eds) (2020) Constituent Power: Law, Popular Rule and Politics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• Arvidsson, L. Brännström & P. Minkkinen (2020), ‘Popular Rule, Constitutional Law and Politics: an orientation’, in M. Arvidsson, L. Brännström & P. Minkkinen (eds) Popular Rule, Constitutional Law and Politics. Edinburgh University Press 2020.
• Berbyuk Lindström, D. Koutsikouri, J. Stier, & M. Arvidsson (2020), ’Migrant Employment Integration and Artificial Intelligence (AI)’ Proceedings of the 32nd annual workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (SAIS) online conference, June 16–17, 2020

2019

• Arvidsson (2019) ‘DIY Plant Milk: A Recipe-Manifesto and Method of Ethical Relations, Care, and Resistance’ in M. Cohen & Y. Otomo (eds) Making Milk: The Past, Present and Future of Our Primary Food (London, Bloomsbury).

2018

• Arvidsson (2018) ‘Targeting, Gender, and International Posthumanitarian Law and Practice: Framing the Question of the Human in International Humanitarian Law’ 44(1) Australian Feminist Law Journal, 9–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2018.1465331

2017

• Arvidsson (2017) The Subject in International Law: The Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority of Occupied Iraq and its Laws. Lund: MediaTryck. Doctoral Dissertation.

2016

• Arvidsson, L. Brännström & P. Minkkinen (eds) (2016) The Contemporary Relevance of Carl Schmitt: Law, Politics, Theology. Abingdon: Routledge.
• Arvidsson, L. Brännström & P. Minkkinen (2016) ‘Introduction’ in M. Arvidsson, L. Brännström & P. Minkkinen (eds) (2016) The Contemporary Relevance of Carl Schmitt: Law, Politics, Theology. Abingdon: Routledge.
• Arvidsson (2016), ‘From teleology to eschatology: The political theology of international law of occupation’ in M. Arvidsson, L. Brännström & P. Minkkinen (eds) The Contemporary Relevance of Carl Schmitt: Law, Politics, Theology(Abingdon, Routledge).
• Arvidsson (2016) ‘Shari’a from behind the bench: Court culture, judicial culture and a judge‐made discourse on Shari’a at a Swedish district court’ in J. S. Nielsen & L. Christoffersen (eds) Shari’a as discourse: Legal traditions and the encounter with Europe. Abingdon: Routledge.

2014

• Arvidsson & P. Bengtsen (2014) ‘Law, street art and spatial justice’, 5 Nordic Journal of Law and Social Research, 117–30. https://doi.org/10.7146/nnjlsr.v0i5.111084

2013

• Arvidsson, L. Dahlberg, M. Bruncevic & L. Brännström (eds) (2013) ‘Gardens of Justice’ 39 Australian Feminist Law Journal.
• Arvidsson (2013) ‘Embodying Law in the Garden: An Autoethnographic Account of an Office of Law’ 39(1) Australian Feminist Law Journal, 21–45. https://doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2013.10854490

2012

• Arvidsson (2012), ’Ockupationsrättens politiska teologi’ in J. Wittrock & H. Falk (eds) Vän eller fiende ‐ En antologi om Carl Schmitts politiska tänkande. Daidalos, Stockholm.

2011

• Arvidsson (2011) ‘Who happens here? Ethical responsibility, subjectivity, and corporeality: Self‐accounts in the Archive of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) of Iraq’ 77 NoFoundations – Journal of Extreme Legal Positivism, 71–122.
• Arvidsson (2011) ‘Facing the unknown/defacing the known: Mahr in Swedish courts’ in R. Mehdi and J. S. Nielsen (eds) Embedding Mahr in the European Legal System. Copenhagen: DJØF.

2010

• Arvidsson (2010) ‘How long is ‘now’? The Christian eschatological concept of a critique of law’, in K. Å. Modéer, S. Andersen & L. Christoffersen (eds) Law & Religion in the 21st Century – Nordic Perspectives: New Life in the Ruins – Pluralistic renewal in the Lutheran setting. Copenhagen: DJØF.