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Anna W. Ghavanini

Professor

Department of Law
Telephone
+46 31-786 63 42
Mail
anna.ghavanini@law.gu.se
Visiting address
Vasagatan 1
41124 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 650
40530 Göteborg

About Anna W. Ghavanini

Anna Wallerman Ghavanini is professor of procedural law at the University of Gothenburg. She holds an LL D from the University of Gothenburg (2015), and has previously held positions at the European University Institute and the University of Zurich as well as visiting professorships at the universities of Bern, Vienna, and Innsbruck.

Anna's research interests lie at the crossroads of EU, procedural, and constitutional law. She is particularly interested in the influence of EU law on national civil procedure, judicial decision-making, and the role of courts and judges in modern democratic society. She is currently engaged in a research project entitled Judicial enforcement of the right to non-discrimination:A rocky road or a walk in the park?, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond 2024–2026. The project aims to establish how the procedure in discrimination cases is to be conducted and identify, if applicable, areas in need of reform. More information on the project can be found [insert link].

Anna has been engaged in several interdisciplinary research collaborations including the IUROPA project (www.iuropa.pol.gu.se), of which she is a co-coordinator. She has recently concluded the research projects Separation of powers in 21st century Europe (www.separope.eu), which examined the exercise of public powers within the EU, and As You Sow, So Shall You Reap? The Influence of the Referring Court in the Preliminary Reference Procedure, funded by the Max Weber Programme and the Ragnar Söderberg Foundation. A video presentation of the main results of that project is available here.

Anna teaches procedural and EU law at undergraduate and postgraduate level and supervises master and PhD students in the same fields.

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Research areas

  • Civil procedure

  • EU law

  • Legal Empirical Studies

  • Judicial Politics

Research in progress

Teaching areas

  • Procedural law

  • EU law

Selected publications

A W Ghavanini, “The burden of proof in EU anti-discrimination law: A civil procedure analysis” International Journal of Discrimination and the Law 2026 (online first), https://doi.org/10.1177/13582291261439759

A W Ghavanini and A Piszcz, “Limits of the ‘single economic unit’ concept: MOL and Volvo, 62 Common Market Law Review 2025, pp 1559–1578, https://gup.ub.gu.se/publications/show/353988

A W Ghavanini, “Judicial dialogue à la Nordique: Predominant passivism and sporadic proactivism in the preliminary reference procedure”, Europarättslig tidskrift 2025, pp 215–231, https://www.ert.se/Articles/details/26309

C Eckes, P Leino-Sandberg and A W Ghavanini (eds), The Dynamics of Power in the European Union. Oxford: Hart 2024, ISBN: 9781509971596, https://gup.ub.gu.se/publications/show/342231

A Ronkainen, A W Ghavanini, and P Leino-Sandberg, “The House Always Wins – a systematic analysis of CJEU case law relating to the Economic and Monetary Union (2010-2020)” 9 European Papers – A Journal on Law and Integration 2024, pp 876–909, https://doi.org/10.15166/2499-8249/790