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Ester Herlin-Karnell
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Department of LawAbout Ester Herlin-Karnell
I am a Professor of EU law. My main research interests lie in the area of EU constitutional law, EU security regulation, EU criminal law & market regulation, constitutional law theory, and political theory. I was previously a Professor of EU Constitutional Law and Justice and a University Research Chair at VU University Amsterdam where I was the co-director and founder of the Centre for European Legal Studies (2009-2019). I hold a DPhil in law from Somerville, College Oxford, an LLM from King’s College London, and a Jur Kand (LLM) from Stockholm University.
I have been a visiting fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Uppsala University School of Law, New York University (Emile Noël Fellow), Michigan University Law School, European University Institute, WZB Berlin Centre for Global Constitutionalism, the Global Trust Centre at Tel Aviv University, Haifa University Minerva Centre for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions and at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law. I have also been a visiting professor at the Global Law program at Haifa University.
My publications include The Constitutional Structure of Europe’s Area of “Freedom, Security and Justice ” and the Right to Justification, (Hart publishing 2019), Market manipulation and insider trading: regulatory challenges in the United States of America, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Hart publishing 2019 with N Ryder) and The Constitutional Dimension of European Criminal Law, (Hart Publishing 2012) and numerous articles and book chapters. I am also the co-author (with G Conway & A Ganesh) of European Union Law in Context, a textbook published in 2021. I have also co-edited several edited volumes and special journal issues. Recent edited volumes include: 'From constitutionalism to war: the public uses of coercion and force', Oxford University Press (co-edited with E Rossi) and Constitutionalism Justified: Rainer Forst in Discourse (co-edited M Klatt and assistant editor H Morales Zúniga, Oxford University Press 2019).
I am currently a work package leader (WP3) of an EU Horizon funded project HRJust on human rights justifications and a co-convenor of a research cluster on European Constitutional Law & Comparative Constitutional Law at GU.
Moreover, I am an Associate Editor of Jus Cogens (Springer) and a member of the editorial boards of EUcrim and the Journal of Economic Criminology. I am also on the editorial advisory boards of the Nordic Journal of European Law and of Brill publishing EU criminal law book series respectively.
Current PhD supervision at GU: Dmitrii Kuznetsov “Separation of powers and the role of the judiciary in implementation of states’ environmental obligations” (main supervisor), Johanna Gipperth, "EU External Relations and Climate Change" ( HRJust project- main supervisor), Hugo Lundberg "understanding sanctions in international law from a theoretical lens" - (second supervisor).
For a publication list, please see my CV. For an interview in connection with my professorship here (see this link in Swedish).
On other web sites
Research areas
- EU criminal law, AFSJ law, market regulation, data protection
- EU constitutional law
- Constitutional theory & political theory, especially republican theory and Kantian theory
Teaching areas
Current and recent teaching areas:
- EU law
- Area of Freedom, Security and Justice & Comparative Constitutional Law
- Legal theory
- EU Criminal Law
- Criminal law
Some recent and selected publications
A “Me too” Movement in the Equestrian Arena?, VerfBlog, 2024/5/14
“Privatisation and Climate Change: a Question of Duties?” Jus Cogens (2024), pp 89-108
"The Constitutional Concepts of Sustainability and Dignity", Jus Cogens (2023), pp 125-148.
"The Constitutional Concept of Solidarity in EU Law: Some Reflections on the Interrelationship Between Solidarity, Constituent Power, and Non-Domination" (2023) Nordic Journal of European Law, pp 131-142
"Republican theory and the EU: Emergency Laws and Constitutional Challenges", Jus Cogens (2021), pp 209-228.
(with M Klatt) Constitutionalism Justified - Rainer Forst in Discourse (Oxford University Press 2019), edited volume with comments and reply by Rainer Forst.
The Constitutional Structure of Europe’s Area of “Freedom, Security and Justice ” and the Right to Justification, Hart publishing 2019
(with C Gómez-Jara Díez ), "Prosecuting EU Financial Crimes: The European Public Prosecutor’s Office in Comparison to the US Federal Regime" (2018) vol 19 German Law Journal 1191-1220
The domination of security and the promise of justice: on justification and proportionality in Europe’s ‘Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, (2017) Transnational Legal Theory, pp 79-102
The Constitutional Dimension of European Criminal Law, (Hart Publishing 2012)
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EU Criminal Law and its Complicated Relationship to the Internal
Market
Ester Herlin-Karnell
M Bergtröm, V Mitsilegas and T Quintel (eds) Research Handbook on European Criminal Law - 2024 -
Kollektivt självförsvar och
EU-rätten
Ester Herlin-Karnell
Europaperspektiv - 2024 -
"Svenskar har rätt till skydd för persondata”, SvD Debatt 5 december
2024
Ester Herlin-Karnell
Svenska Dagbladet - 2024 -
Herlin-Karnell, Ester: A “Me too” Movement in the Equestrian Arena?, VerfBlog,
2024/5/14
Ester Herlin-Karnell
2024 -
Privatisation and Climate Change: a Question of
Duties?
Ester Herlin-Karnell
Jus Cogens. A Critical Journal of Philosophy of Law and Politics - 2024 -
Coercion and
Privatization
Göran Duus-Otterström, Ester Herlin-Karnell
Jus Cogens. A Critical Journal of Philosophy of Law and Politics - 2024 -
"European Ways of Life and the Security Dimension", chapter in L Corrias and R Tinnevelt (eds), The European Ways of Life, Edward Elgar,
forthcoming
Ester Herlin-Karnell
chapter in L Corrias and R Tinnevelt (eds), The European Ways of Life, Edward Elgar, forthcoming - 2024 -
The Concept of Solidarity in EU Law: Some Reflections on the Interrelationship between Solidarity, Constituent power, and
Non-Domination
Ester Herlin-Karnell
Nordic Journal of European Law - 2023 -
The European Arrest Warrant and the Rule of
Law
Ester Herlin-Karnell
Scandinavian Studies in Law vol 69 - 2023 -
The Constitutional Concepts of Sustainability and
Dignity
Ester Herlin-Karnell
Jus Cogens: A Critical Journal of Philosophy of Law and Politics - 2023 -
5 reflektioner om EU-rättens ställning i
Sverige
Ester Herlin-Karnell
Europarättslig tidskrift - 2023 -
Herlin-Karnell, Ester: A Plea for Proportionality: On the Burning of the Koran and Related Questions, VerfBlog,
2023/8/21
Ester Herlin-Karnell
Verfassungsblog - 2023 -
"Ytterligheter i svensk rättstillämpning? Från Koranbränning till Mr Koll", Dagens Juridik 11 juli
2023
Ester Herlin-Karnell
Dagens Juridik - 2023 -
Erdogan’s Wish List Come True?, VerfBlog,
2023/6/17
Ester Herlin-Karnell
Verfassungsblog - 2023 -
För att råda bot på veterinärbristen behöver språkkravet
slopas
Ester Herlin-Karnell
Göteborgs-Posten - 2023 -
"The Interdependence of Human Rights, Peace and Law: Some reflections on Relativism and Human Rights, A Theory of Pluralist Universalism by Claudio
Corradetti"
Ester Herlin-Karnell
Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics - 2022 -
Tvivelaktig svensk tillämpning av EU:s
dataskyddsregler
Ester Herlin-Karnell, Walter Guldbrandzén
Svensk Juristtidning - 2022 -
"Human Rights Justifications: Uses and
Abuses"
Ester Herlin-Karnell, Maria Grahn-Farley
Blog Post, Springer Nature, Human Rights Day 2022 - 2022 -
Herlin-Karnell, Ester: The Swedish Change of Government: Will Swedish Courts Start Asking the EU Court of Justice More Often?, VerfBlog,
2022/11/01
Ester Herlin-Karnell
Verfassungsblog. On Matters Constitutional - 2022 -
The EU as Quasi-NATO: How Russia’s War in Ukraine upends Swedish Neutrality, VerfBlog,
2022/3/16
Ester Herlin-Karnell
Verfassungsblog on Matters Constitutional - 2022 -
”Sverige är inte neutralt – EU glöms bort”, debattartikel 24 januari
2022.
Ester Herlin-Karnell
Svenska dagbladet - 2022 -
The public uses of coercion and force : from constitutionalism to
war
Ester Herlin-Karnell, Enzo Rossi
2021 -
European Union Law in
Context
Ester Herlin-Karnell, Gerard Conway, Aravind Ganesh
2021 -
EU Solidarity as Collective Self-Defense? Constitutionalism and the Public Uses of
Force
Ester Herlin-Karnell
The Public Uses of Coercion and Force. From Constitutionalism to War" (Herlin-Karnell & Rossi, eds) - 2021 -
Blog post: "The Public Uses of Coercion and Force from Constitutionalism to
War"
Ester Herlin-Karnell
Law Log WZB Centre for Global Constitutionalism - 2021 -
EU Data Protection and the Principle of
Proportionality
Ester Herlin-Karnell
Nordic Journal of European Law - 2021 -
EPPO och
Sverige
Ester Herlin-Karnell
Europarättslig tidskrift - 2021 -
Republican theory and the EU: Emergency Laws and Constitutional
Challenges
Ester Herlin-Karnell
Jus Cogens - 2021 -
Introduction
chapter
Ester Herlin-Karnell, Enzo Rossi
2021 -
EU Solidarity as Collective Self-Defense? Constitutionalism and the Public Uses of
Force
Ester Herlin-Karnell
conference presentation at the Jean Monnet Centre module Hybrid warfare, University of New South Wales 16th June 2021 (digital). - 2021 -
Den europeiska åklagaren – analys med anledning av SOU 2020:74 En europeisk åklagarmyndighet i
Sverige
Ester Herlin-Karnell
JP EUnet - 2021 -
"Sverige och det europeiska åklagarsamarbetet
EPPO"
Ester Herlin-Karnell
Dagens juridik - 2021 -
General Principles of EU Criminal
Law
Ester Herlin-Karnell
K Zeigler, V Moreno-Lax and P Neuvonen (eds), Research Handbook on General Principles in EU Law Constructing Legal Orders in Europe - 2020 -
The Politics of EU law and the Area of Freedom, Security and
Justice
Ester Herlin-Karnell
PJ Cardwell & M-P Granger (eds). Research Handbook on the Politics of EU Law - 2020 -
EU Data Protection Rules and the Lack of Compliance in
Sweden
Ester Herlin-Karnell
Nordic Journal of European Law - 2020 -
”Ömsesidigt erkännande och frågan om definitionen av påföljd – en
analys”
Ester Herlin-Karnell
JP infonet policy analys - 2020 -
Corona and the absence of a real constitutional debate in Sweden (Blog post:
Verfassungsblog.de)
Ester Herlin-Karnell
Verfassungsblog. On Matters Constitutional - 2020 -
Corona-krisen och
EU
Ester Herlin-Karnell
JP EU-net analys - 2020 -
The Constitutional Structure of Europe’s Area of “Freedom, Security and Justice ” and the Right to
Justification
Ester Herlin-Karnell
2019 -
On constitutional law parameters and EU Security
regulation
Ester Herlin-Karnell
Boston Journal of International Law - 2019 -
Collective self-defence and EU
solidarity
Ester Herlin-Karnell
paper presented at authors workshop on the public uses of coercion and force from constitutionalism to war, 7 June 2019, University of Amsterdam - 2019 -
On the constitutional structure of the AFSJ and the idea of
justice
Ester Herlin-Karnell
presentation of paper at a panel on international justice and national sovereignty, Mons, Belgium, 8-12 April 2019 ECPR - 2019 -
Constitutionalism Justified: Rainer Forst in
Discourse
Ester Herlin-Karnell, Matthias Klatt
2019 -
Flexible integration and EU agencies in criminal law
matters
Ester Herlin-Karnell
paper presented at Lund University, Faculty of Law 17 October 2019 - 2019 -
"EU collective self-defence and the public uses of
force"
Ester Herlin-Karnell
paper presented at the EU law institute & the Institute for international law and justice, University of Stockholm 13 November 2019 - 2019 -
The principle of proportionality and sanctions in AFSJ
law
Ester Herlin-Karnell
presentation of a paper at the University of Turin, Italy, 28-29 March 2019 - 2019 -
The concept of autonomy, Trial in absentia and the European arrest
warrant
Ester Herlin-Karnell
paper presented at Maastricht University, 24-25 October 2019 - 2019 -
The globalization of norm contestation - commentator at a round table on Antje Wiener's new book (book launch). University of Hamburg, Germany 24-25 January
2019.
Ester Herlin-Karnell
workshop, University of Hamburg - 2019 -
The Constitutional Structure of Europe’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, Book Launch presentation at Uppsala University, EU law forum 14 May
2019
Ester Herlin-Karnell
Book Launch presentation at Uppsala University, EU law forum 14 May 2019 - 2019 -
Transnational justice and EU
solidarity
Ester Herlin-Karnell
paper presented at Haifa University, Center for German and European Studies, 13 June 2019 - 2019
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