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Matilda Arvidsson

Researcher

Department of Law
Telephone
+46 31-786 48 05
Mail
matilda.arvidsson@law.gu.se
Visiting address
Vasagatan 1
41124 Göteborg
Room number
C603
Postal address
Box 650
40530 Göteborg

Associate Senior Lecturer

Department of Law
Mail
matilda.arvidsson@law.gu.se
Visiting address
Vasagatan 1
41124 Göteborg
Room number
C603
Postal address
Box 650
40530 Göteborg

About Matilda Arvidsson

Dr Matilda Arvidsson is an associate professor (docent) in international law, and an assistant senior lecturer in jurisprudence.

Her research interests are interdisciplinary and include AI and law, legal theory, legal history, international law, posthumanism and technology, feminism and ethnography, as well as the embodiment of law in its various forms and in inter-species relations. Her publications address themes such as the interaction between humans, the environment and swarming drones; the place of gardens and gardening in colonial legal history and in international law; and how psychoanalytic theory and method can be productive for PhD supervision pedagogy. She researches and gives talks on #MeToo in academia. Matilda is the recipient of the Albert Wallin Prize in Scientific Excellence [Albert Wallins vetenskapspris], 2025, awarded by the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg (KVVS).

She is a senior editor of Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, an associate editor of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: Law & Technology, and an editorial board member of Feminist Legal Studies, International Journal of Law in Context, and Law, Technology and Humans.

Matilda Arvidsson is the editor of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook on AI, Law and Soceity (2025) and she is the series editor of the AI, Law and Society book series at Routledge. The series invites new ways of thinking about the various connections between AI, law, politics, and society. More broadly the series is concerned with addressing the normative fields of the emergence, use, regulation, experience, and impact of AI and related emerging technologies. The series publishes full length and short monographs as well as edited collections. Contact, for book proposals and inquires: matilda.arvidsson@law.gu.se

She is the co-organizer, with Dr Moa Bladini, of the seminar series Feminist Voices in Law with hybrid format lectures every first Tuesday of the month.

Visiting Professor: 2024 Deakin Law School, Melbourne Australia

Guest teacher (a selection): 2025- Luleå University, Sweden; the IT Univsersitety of Copenhagen, Denmark; 2023- La Trobe Law School, Melbourne, Australia; 2022- Université Catholique de Lille, Faculté Libre de Droit, Paris, France; 2017- Lund University, Faculty of Law, Sweden.

Visiting research positions (a selection): 2024-25 HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design, Sweden; 2024 Melbourne Law School, Australia; 2024 Lund University, Sweden; , 2018-19 Helsinki University Law School, Finland; 2018-19 La Trobe Law School, Melbourne, Australia; 2017 Melbourne Law School, Australia

Supervised Doctoral students: Hedvig Lärka (international law), Dpt of Law, University of Gothenburg (2021-), Hugo Lundberg (international law), Dpt of Law, University of Gothenburg (2021-), Simon Fagéus (design), HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg (2023-) Karin Åberg (international law), Dpt of Law, University of Gothenburg (2018-), Kristina Wejstål (international law), Dpt of Law, University of Gothenburg (2019-2024).

External member of grading committee for awarding of doctoral degree (LLD, PhD): 2022 Marcus Tannenberg, Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 2021 Gustav Stenseke Arup, Philosophy of Law, University of Karlstad, Sweden, 2020 Renske Vos, International Law, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Pedagogical focus, development and research (a selection): AI in higher education, gender pedagogy in i higher education, pedagogy for PhD supervision, MOOC pedagogy, posthumanist pedagogy for higher education.

ORCHID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6108

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Research areas

  • AI and Law
  • International law
  • Jurisprudence
  • Feminism

Research in progress

Teaching areas

  • AI and Law
  • Jurisprudence
  • International Law
  • Legal History
  • Biotech Law

Selected publications

M. Arvidsson & E. Jones (eds) International Law and Posthuman Theory (Routledge, 2024): https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781032658032/international-law-posthuman-theory-matilda-arvidsson-emily-jones

G. Argüello, M. Arvidsson & N. Krabbe N. 'Marine Ecosystem Bodies as Entangled Environments and Entangled Laws: Drones and the Marine Environment. AJIL Unbound. 2023;117:145-150. doi:10.1017/aju.2023.19

M. Arvidsson & G. Noll (2023) 'Decision Making in Asylum Law and Machine Learning: Autoethnographic Lessons Learned on Data Wrangling and Human Discretion,' Nordic Journal of International Law, 92(84), 56–92: http://DOI: 10.1163/15718107-bja10057

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 https://doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2020.01.05