Matilda Arvidsson
About Matilda Arvidsson
Matilda Arvidsson, BA, LLM, LLD, associate professor (Docent) in international law, assistant senior lecturer in law and theory, has studied law in Lund, Jerusalem and Khartoum. She completed her LLD in international law at the Faculty of Law, Lund University, from where she also holds a LLM in jurisprudence and a BA in political science.
Her research interests are interdisciplinary and include AI and law, legal and theory, international law, posthumanism and technology, as well as the embodiment of law in its various forms and in inter-species relations. She is an associate editor of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: Law & Technology (https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/artificial-intelligence/sections/t…), and part of the editorial board of Law, Technology and Humans (https://lthj.qut.edu.au/). She reviews manuscripts and journal articles for a number of publishing houses and academic journals, including Oxford University Press, Routledge, Leiden Journal of International Law, the Australian Feminist Law Journal, and Griffith Law Review. She has a background in legal practice and acts as a pro bono legal adviser.
Recent visiting research positions (a selection): 2018-19 Helsinki University Law School, Finland; 2018-19 La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia; 2017 Melbourne Law School, Australia
Supervised Doctoral students:
Hedvig Lärka (internationell rätt), Juridiska institutionen, Göteborgs universitet.
Hugo Lundberg (internationell rätt), Juridiska institutionen, Göteborgs universitet.
Karin Åberg (internationell rätt), Juridiska institutionen, Göteborgs universitet.
ORCHID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6108
Matilda has two young children and worked part-time between 2009 and 2017.
On other web sites
Research areas
- AI and Law
- International law
- Legal theory
Research in progress
- Democratic participation, AI and Law in the Human+ Condition, finansierat av WASP-HS (PI), 2021-2026: https://www.gu.se/handelshogskolan/juridik/democratic-participation-ai-and-law-in-the-human-condition
- Dåtid som nutid: Samtida rättslig fragmentering och Svenska Missionskyrkan som rättsstatsaktör i Kongo 1881-1961, finansierat av Vetenskapsrådet (PI), 2022-2025: https://www.gu.se/forskning/the-past-as-present-contemporary-legal-fragmentation-and-the-mission-covenant-church-of-sweden-as-a-rule-of-law-actor-in-congo-1881-1961
Teaching areas
- AI and Law
- Legal theory
- International law
Selected publications
Targeting, Gender and International Posthumanitarian Law and Practice: Framing the Question of the Human in International Humanitarian LawArvidsson, MatildaAustralian Feminist Law Journal, 44:1, s. 9-28, 2018
The swarm that we already are: Artificially Intelligent (AI) swarming ‘insect drones’, targeting and international humanitarian law in a posthuman ecologyArvidsson, MatildaJournal of Human Rights and the Environment, 11:1, 2020
The Turn to History in International Law and the Sources Doctrine: Critical Approaches and Methodological ImaginariesArvidsson, Matilda, McKenna, Miriam BakLeiden Journal of International Law, 33:1, s. 37-56, 2020
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The Past as Present: Law, Anthropology and
History
Matilda Arvidsson, Simon B. Larsson, Britta Sjöstedt
The Past as Present: Research project on past and present legal fragmentation in the Kongo/DRC - 2022-01-01 -
Law and Disorder in the Postcolony? Law, Missionaries, and the Utopias of Pre-colonial to Present-day Kongo
DRC
Matilda Arvidsson, Simon B. Larsson, Britta Sjöstedt
Law and Soceity Association Annual Meeting 2022 - 2022-01-01 -
International Law and Posthuman
Theory
Matilda Arvidsson, Emily Jones
Law and Soceity Association Global Meeting 2022 - 2022-01-01 -
AI, law and
(anti)fascism
Matilda Arvidsson
Critical Legal Conference - 2022-01-01 -
Maskininlärning och rättsligt beslutsfattande: migrationsrätt, automatisering och gradvis integrerad
AI
Matilda Arvidsson
AI, digitalisering och rätten - 2021-01-01 -
Who, or What, is the Human of International Humanitarian
Law
Matilda Arvidsson
S Pahuja & S Chalmers (eds) Routledge Handbook on International Law and the Humanities (Routledge, Abingdon 2020) - 2021-01-01 -
The Turn to History in International Law and the Sources Doctrine: Critical Approaches and
Methodological
Imaginaries
Matilda Arvidsson, Miriam Bak-McKenna
Leiden Journal of International Law - 2020-01-01 -
The ‘turn to history’ and the year of the yearbook of international
law
Matilda Arvidsson
Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2019. Yearbooks in International Law: History, Function and Future/ Editors Otto SpijkersWouter G. WernerRamses A. Wessel - 2020-01-01 -
Artificiell intelligens kan hjälpa äldre att fatta
beslut
Matilda Arvidsson
Äldre i centrum - 2020-01-01 -
Constituent Power: Law, Popular Rule and
Politics
Matilda Arvidsson, Leila Brännström, Panu Minkkinen
- 2020-01-01 -
The swarm that we already are: Artificially Intelligent (AI) swarming ‘insect drones’, targeting and international humanitarian law in a posthuman
ecology
Matilda Arvidsson
Journal of Human Rights and the Environment - 2020-01-01 -
Migrant Employment Integration and Artificial Intelligence
(AI)
Nataliya Berbyuk Lindström, Dina Koutsikouri, Jonas Stier, Matilda Arvidsson
Proceedings of the 32nd annual workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (SAIS) online conference, June 16 – 17, 2020. - 2020-01-01 -
Notes on Louise Glück's "The Wild Iris": Intersections of human and non-human aspects in legal
research
Matilda Arvidsson
Global Research Network (Blog) - 2020-01-01 -
DIY Plant Milk: A Recipe-Manifesto and Method of Ethical Relations, Care, and
Resistance
Matilda Arvidsson
Making Milk: The Past, Present and Future of Our Primary Food - 2019-01-01 -
Lagstiftarens elefant i rummet – Migrationsverkets rätt att förordna offentliga
biträden
Sebastian Wejedal, Sara Stendahl, Otto Swedrup, Matilda Arvidsson, Kristina Wejstål
Dagens Juridik - 2018-01-01 -
Targeting, Gender and International Posthumanitarian Law and Practice: Framing
the Question of the Human in International Humanitarian
Law
Matilda Arvidsson
Australian Feminist Law Journal - 2018-01-01 -
Life and Death by Bugs: International Law, Transgression, and Swarming ‘Insect
Drones’
Matilda Arvidsson
Eggs, Milk and Honey: Law and Global Bio-commodities (Workshop 6-7 September, Western Sydney. University, Australia) - 2018-01-01 -
Invited speech: From Posthumanitarian Targeting Practices to an International Posthumanitarian Law: Rethinking Law, Gender and the Human through Posthumanist Feminist Theory and Contemporary Intelligent Warfare
Technologies
Matilda Arvidsson
Invited speech, University of Technology Sydney the Feminist Legal Research Group and the International Law Research Cluster - 2018-01-01 -
Att queera
universitetet
Matilda Arvidsson
HBTQ på universitetet - 2018-01-01 -
Posthumanitarian International Law and Practice of
War
Matilda Arvidsson
Conference paper at the Law & Soceity Association Annual Meeting, 7-10 June, Toronto 2018 - 2018-01-01 -
Artificial Intelligence, War,
Law
Matilda Arvidsson
Conferance panel at the Law & Soceity Association Annual Meeting, 7-10 June, Toronto 2018: CRN23 International Law & Politics - 2018-01-01 -
Exercising the right authority during belligerent occupation: The Authority of the Coalition Provisional Authority of occupied
Iraq
Matilda Arvidsson
International Studies Association (ISA) Annuam Convention 2018, San Fransisco - 2018-01-01 -
The ‘turn to history’ and sources doctrine in international law: disruption, democratisation, and
distress
Miriam McKenna, Matilda Arvidsson
ESIL Interest Group on the History of International Law Symposium : Evaluating the Turn to History of International Law. Naples, 6 September 2017. - 2017-01-01 -
The international law and practice of occupation between transformation and preservation: the occupation of Iraq and the American Lieber
Code
Matilda Arvidsson
50 Years after 1967: Evaluating the Past, Present and Future of of the Law of Belligerent Occupation: Conference Papers - 2017-01-01 -
Eating, meat,
catastrophe
Matilda Arvidsson, Toni Selkälä
Critical Legal Conference 2017 Stream, Warwick 1-3 September 2017. - 2017-01-01 -
Targeting, gender and international posthumanitarian law and practice: Warfare in the age of data–driven
agency
Matilda Arvidsson
Kent workshop in International Law and theory - 2017-01-01 -
The American Lieber Code in Occupied Iraq: Anachronism and the Turn to History in International Law and
Practice
Matilda Arvidsson
Invited research talk: Laureate Program in International Law Seminar Series, Melbourne Law School, Australia - 2017-01-01 -
Transgression, life and death by ‘insect drones’: Towards a feminist ontology and posthumanitarian
law
Matilda Arvidsson
Invited research seminar talk, La Trobe Law School Seminar, Melbourne, Australia - 2017-01-01 -
The subject in international law: The Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority of Occupied Iraq and its
Laws
Matilda Arvidsson
- 2017-01-01 -
The Embodied Politics of Justice in Han Kang’s ‘The Vegetarian’: The Laws of Carnivore Domination and the Fulfillment of Desire as Plant
Life
Matilda Arvidsson
Critical Legal Conference book, Warwick 1-3 September 2017 - 2017-01-01 -
Becoming a subject in international law: The administrator of occupied Iraq, the 1863 Lieber Code of the American Civil War, and the perpetual presence of the past in the
present
Matilda Arvidsson
Seminar proceedings - 2017-01-01 -
Shari'a from Behind the Bench: Court Culture, Judicial Culture and a Judge-made Discourse on Shari'a at a Swedish District
Court
Matilda Arvidsson
Shari'a as Discourse: Legal Traditions and the Encounter with Europe - 2016-01-01 -
Editors' introduction: The contemporary relevance of Carl
Schmitt
Matilda Arvidsson, Leila Brännström, Panu Minkkinen
978-1-138-82293-1 - 2016-01-01 -
The Contemporary Relevance of Carl Schmitt: Law, Politics,
Theology
Matilda Arvidsson, Leila Brännström, Panu Minkinnen
- 2016-01-01 -
From teleology to eschatology: The katechon and the political theology of the international law of belligerent
occupation
Matilda Arvidsson
In The contemporary relevance of Carl Schmitt: law, politics, theology - 2016-01-01 -
Ockupationsrätten och
jag
Matilda Arvidsson
Markussens stipendiehögtid, Teleborgs slott Växsjö, 28 mars 2015 - 2015-01-01 -
Spatial justice and street
art
Matilda Arvidsson, Peter Bengtsen
NAVEIÑ REET: Nordic Journal of Law and Social Research - 2014-01-01 -
FOREWORD: GARDENS OF
JUSTICE
Matilda Arvidsson, Merima Bruncevic, Leila Brännström, Leif Dahlberg
Australian Feminist Law Journal - 2013-01-01 -
Gardens of
Justice
Matilda Arvidsson, Merima Bruncevic, Leila Brännström, Leif Dahlberg
Australian Feminist Law Journal - 2013-01-01 -
Embodying law in the garden: An autoethnographical account of an office of
law
Matilda Arvidsson
Australian Feminist Law Journal - 2013-01-01 -
Den internationella ockupationsrättens politiska
teologi
Matilda Arvidsson
Vän eller fiende: en antologi om Carl Schmitts politiska tänkande - 2012-01-01 -
Remissvar: till betänkandet SOU 2010:72 Folkrätt i väpnad konflikt - svensk tolkning och
tillämpning
Matilda Arvidsson, Gregor Noll, Ulf Linderfalk, Britta Sjöstedt
- 2011-01-01 -
Facing the Unknown/Defacing the Known - Mahr in Swedish
Courts
Matilda Arvidsson
Embedding Mahr in the European Legal System - 2011-01-01 -
Who happens here? Ethical responsibility, subjectivity, and corporeality: Self-accounts in the Archive of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) of
Iraq
Matilda Arvidsson
No Foundations - Journal of Extreme Legal Positivism - 2011-01-01 -
How Long is 'Now'?: The Christian Eschatological Concept of Time within International Laws of, in, and after
War
Matilda Arvidsson
Law & Religion in the 21st Century - Nordic Perspectives - 2010-01-01 -
Inledning: Det Kjell
Åkiska
Matilda Arvidsson, Elsa Trolle Önnerfors
Från Schlyters lustgård: Rättshistoriska uppsatser - 2007-01-01 -
The Presence of Absence of Personal Identity: Everyday Conditions of Practicing
Law
Matilda Arvidsson
Från Schlyters lustgård: Rättshistoriska uppsatser - 2007-01-01 -
På vägen till Damaskus: Suveränen, demos, tiden och rätten. En läsning av Carl Schmitt i undantagstillståndet, kriget och
ockupationen
Matilda Arvidsson
Från Schlyters lustgård: Rättshistoriska uppsatser - 2007-01-01 -
Det Kjell
Åkiska
Matilda Arvidsson, Elsa Trolle Önnerfors
Från Schlyters lustgärd: Rättshistoriska uppsatser - 2007-01-01 -
Jag sträcker mig in i
framtiden
Matilda Arvidsson, Elsa Trolle Önnerfors
Från Schlyters lustgård: Rättshistoriska uppsatser - 2007-01-01 -
Rättens ordning i den tid som
återstår
Matilda Arvidsson
Från Schlyters lustgård - rättshistoriska uppsatser - 2006-01-01 -
Malexandertalet: ett tal - två
situationer
Matilda Arvidsson
Retorikmagasinet - 2000-01-01