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Eva-Maria Svensson

Professor Emerita

Department of Law
Mail
eva-maria.svensson@law.gu.se
Visiting address
Vasagatan 1
41124 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 650
40530 Göteborg

About Eva-Maria Svensson

Professor emerita, docent, LLD, LLM in Law, Department of Law, School of Business, Economics and Law. My research is mainly concentrated on legal philosophy and theory, particularly in the field feminist/gender legal studies, gender equality law and policy, and freedom of speech. I also do research in the fields of ageing and capability, gender equality in the Arctic as well as Studies of Academic Knowledge in Law. I participate in several research networks, in jurisprudence, feminist/gender studies, socio-legal studies, critical legal studies, free speech issues, such as the international network on Gender Equality in the Arctic TUARQ, the Nordic Network in Women’s Law and Feminist/Gender Legal Studies, several International Network in Feminist and Feminist Legal Studies, Critical legal scholars, NORSIL (the Nordic Research Network for Sámi and Indigenous People's Law), and the International Association for Legal Philosophy and Social Philosophy (IVR).

During the years 2012-2017 I was director for the centre Gothenburg interdisciplinary gender research Network (GIG).

Up to 2024 I have supervised eleven LLD students, eight to dissertation and three parts of the doctoral period. I have previously taught master students as well as PhD and LLD students in legal theories and methods, feminist legal studies, discrimination and gender equality. Have been senior leader for the research group in jurisprudence at the Department of Law.

Ongoing research projects

Taking contextual legal philosophy seriously: a feminist Nordic perspective

On other web sites

Research areas

  • Legal theory and philosophy including feminist/gender legal studies, gender equality and equality policy and law, freedom of expression, indigenous rights, ageing and capability

Research in progress

Teaching areas

  • Legal theories and methods, feminist/gender legal studies, gender equality and equality policy and law, studies of academic knowledge

Selected publications

Bladini, Moa & Svensson, Eva-Maria (2025) Rethinking Online Anti-Gender Hate Speech Legislation and Public Policy Making, Routledge.

Svensson, Eva-Maria and Gustafsson, Håkan (2024) “Are rights-based approaches to social justice (really) the right way? : Rightification and the question of social injustice”, Nordic Journal on Law and Society, 7(02). doi: 10.36368/njolas.v7i02.396.

Anne Hellum, Ingunn Ikdahl, Vibeke Strand & Eva-Maria Svensson (eds.), Nordic Equality and Anti-Discrimination Laws in the Throes of Change Legal developments in Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Iceland, Routledge 2023.

Gunnarsson, Åsa, Svenaeus, Lena & Svensson, Eva-Maria (2023) Sweden: From proactive policies to anti-discrimination law , In: Hellum, A, Ikdahl, I, Blaker Strand, V, Svensson, E-M, Nordic Equality and Anti-Discrimination Laws in the Throes of Change Legal developments in Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Iceland, Routledge 2023.

Promoting Gender Equality in Media Content: A Limitation or Extension of Freedom of Expression? Maria Edström, Eva-Maria Svensson, In: The Handbook on Gender, Communication, and Women's Human Rights, Margaret Gallagher & Aimee Vega Montiel (Eds.), Wiley 2023