Moa Bladini
About Moa Bladini
Research
My research fields are criminal law and criminal procedure law. In my previous research, I have invesitgated the concept of truth, objectivity ideals and legitimization strategies in judicial activity. In my dissertation critical discourse analysis was a central method. I have in my research mainly dealt with the concept of truth, objectivity ideals and legitimization strategies in the legal judicial activity. In my dissertation I used critical discourse analysis as a key method.
Finished research projects:
A shorter assignment during the autumn 2016 until spring 2017: The Report Hatred and Threats Online - a Survey of the Legal Regulation in the Nordic Countries on behalf of NIKK and the Nordic Council of Ministers. The report was published in May 2017.
Currently I am working on three research projects:
During the period 2017-2019, I work in the interdisciplinary research project to Construct Objectivity - Emotions in Legal Decision-making together with Associate Professor Asa Wettergren, Department of Sociology and Work Science at University of Gothenburg, Associate Professor Stina Bergman Blix, Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, and Dr. Nina Törnqvist, the Department of Criminology at Stockholm University. The project is funded by the Swedish Research Council.
The above mentioned project is part of a larger comparative research project JUSTEMOTIONS, led by Associate professor Stina Bergman Blix, funded by ERC under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme 2018-2023. More info on https://www.soc.uu.se/research/justemotions/
2020-2021 I am participating in the comparative project GENHA Hate Speech, Gender, Social Networks and Political Parties within the programme Justice Programme (JUST) Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (REC). I am performing the Swedish part of the project together with professor Eva-Maria Svensson, Department of Law, University of Gothenburg. The project is lead by professor Noelia Igareda González, at Universitat Autonoma Barcelona (UAB).
2020-2022 I will be part of the project Rape or consent? Effects of the new rape legislation on legal reasoning and practice. The project is lead by Professor Åsa Wettergren and Assistant Professor Sara Uhnoo at the Department of Sociology and Work Science at the University of Gothenburg.
Supervision
Assistant supervisor since June 2013 to doctoral candidate Erik Björling working on a project with the working title A legal narratological study of argumentation and legal expression of civil process.
Assistant supervisor since September 2015 to doctoral candiate Mikael Bernardini working on a reseach project titled Criminalization of poverty - A Study of Criminal Law's Individualization, Delineation and Development.
Teaching
My teaching includes criminal law as well as criminal procedure law beeing the course coordinator at basic and advanced courses. In criminal law I teach on
the grounds of criminal law, international criminal law, but also on the Criminal Code etc. I have a critical perspective thoughout my teaching in Criminal Law. In Criminal Procedure Law I focus on evidence and gender perspectives on law. The teaching comprises lectures in both larger and smaller forms, seminars, supervision of essays and examinations in various forms.
I supervise and examine thesis projects on the law programme and every year I teach on a course for judges given by the Judicial Academy.
On other web sites
Research areas
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Procedure Law
- Theory and Methodology in Legal Research
- Critical legal theory, and Gender theory especially
Research in progress
- Våldtäkt eller samtycke? Effekter av den nya våldtäktslagstiftningen på rättsligt tänkande och praktik, 2020-07 - 2023-12
- Justemotions: The Construction of Objectivity: AN international Perspective on the Emotive-cognitive Process of Judicial Decision-making, 2018-09 - 2023-08
- GENHA Hate speech, gender, social networks and political parties, 2020-01 - 2021-12
Teaching areas
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Procedure Law
- Legal theory and research methods
Selected publications
Objektivitet i dömandet — på gott och på ont?
Bladini, Moa
Svensk juristtidning 100 år / jubileumsskriften utgiven under en redaktion av lagmannen Stefan Strömberg, ämnesrådet Charlotte Kugelberg, professor Petter Asp, justitierådet Anders Eka, professor Boel Flodgren och lagmannen Mikael Mellqvist ; redaktionssekreterare: kanslichefen David Säfwe och hovrättsrådet Per Claréus, Uppsala : Iustus Förlag, s. 303-312, 2016
the (Dis)passionate Judge - Law and Emotions
Bladini, Moa
Challanges to Judicial Independence in Times of Crisis, British Academy, London, 8-9 March 2018, 2018
Om emotioners vara eller icke vara - ett exempel från processrätten
Bladini, Moa
Juridisk publikation, 2019
“The Process of Narratives through the Legal System - in the Semblance of Objectivity”
Bladini, Moa
Europe and Beyond: Boundaries, Barriers and Belonging - 14th ESA Conference, Manchester, England, 20-23 August 2019, 2019
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Special Issue - Rape laws in the Nordic Countries – Definitions, Development and
Discussions
Moa Bladini, Jørn jacobsen
Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice - 2021-01-01 -
Swedish rape legislation from use of force to voluntariness - critical reflections from an everyday life
perspective
Moa Bladini, Wanna Svedberg
Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice - 2021-01-01 -
Introduction
Moa Bladini, Jørn Jacobsen
Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice - 2021-01-01 -
Rape or consent? Effects of the new Swedish rape legislation on legal reasoning and
practice
Sara Uhnoo, Åsa Wettergren, Moa Bladini
The 9th midterm conference of the European Sociological Association’s Sociology of Emotions Research Network (RN11) - 2020-01-01 -
Hårdare straff ”nollar” inte brottsoffrens
lidande
Sebastian Wejedal, Moa Bladini, Wanna Svedberg, Mikael Bernardini
Göteborgs Posten - 2020-01-01 -
Tvångsvård – för barnens eller moderaternas
bästa?
Moa Bladini, Therese Fridström Montoya, Håkan Gustafsson, Pernilla Marklund, Wanna Svedberg, Sebastian Wejedal, Allison Östlund
Dagens Juridik - 2020-01-01 -
Om emotioners vara eller icke vara - ett exempel från
processrätten
Moa Bladini
Juridisk publikation - 2019-01-01 -
Key Note Session: Objectivity and Narratives in Procedural
Law
Erik Björling, Moa Bladini
Justice for All? Nordic Seminar on Criminal Law, Procedural Law and Criminology, University of Turku - 2019-01-01 -
Ett medvetet slag mot
rättssäkerheten
Björn Hurtig, Hartman Samuel, Sebastian Wejedal, Moa Bladini
Svenska dagbladet - 2019-01-01 -
Estetics, security and the contradiction between ownership rights and freedom of expression. Scrutinizing the arguments of graffiti as a
crime.
Moa Bladini, Mårten Edh
Lund Urban Creativity Conference 2019 - 2019-01-01 -
Remissyttrande på Betänkande Rättssäkerhetsgarantier och hemliga tvångsmedel (SOU
2018:61)
Moa Bladini, Robert Eneljung
- 2018-01-01 -
The Judge under Pressure. Fostering Objectivity by Leaving the Myth of
Dispassion
Moa Bladini, Stina Bergman Blix
Challanges to Judicial Independence in Times of Crisis. Organized by British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences - 2018-01-01 -
How Swedish Prosecutors and Judges are Deliberating Decision-Making in Cases of
Fraud
Moa Bladini
ESA/BSA Sociology of Emotions Conference 2018 - 2018-01-01 -
Remissyttrande på Betänkande Barnets rättigheter i ett straffrättsligt förfarande (SOU 2017:68), Department of
Law
Moa Bladini, Christer Ranch
- 2017-01-01 -
Emotions in Judicial Decision-Making. A
Review
Moa Bladini, Stina Bergman Blix
(Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities - 13th ESA Conference - 2017-01-01 -
Våld mot kvinnor är
hatbrott
Moa Bladini
Göteborgs fria tidning - 2017-01-01 -
Hat och hot på nätet - rättsliga utmaningar i de nordiska
länderna
Moa Bladini
Hadefulde ytringer i et nordisk perspektiv, Grejsen Nissen S. & Zuleta L. (Red.) - 2017-01-01 -
Mäns våld mot kvinnor bör ses som
hatbrott
Caroline Mellgren, David Brax, Moa Bladini
Svenska Dagbladet - 2017-01-01 -
Hat och hot på nätet – En kartläggning av den rättsliga regleringen i Norden från ett
jämställdhetsperspektiv
Moa Bladini
- 2017-01-01 -
Näthat i Norden - ett hot mot yttrandefrihet och
jämställdhet
Moa Bladini
Rättstrycket - 2017-01-01 -
Forskare: Nya asyllagar gröper ur vår
demokrati
Annkatrin Meyerson, Otto Swedrup, Sara Stendahl, Eva-Maria Svensson, Moa Bladini, Tormod Otter Johansen
Svenska Dagbladet - 2016-01-01 -
Objektivitet i dömandet — på gott och på
ont?
Moa Bladini
Svensk juristtidning 100 år / jubileumsskriften utgiven under en redaktion av lagmannen Stefan Strömberg, ämnesrådet Charlotte Kugelberg, professor Petter Asp, justitierådet Anders Eka, professor Boel Flodgren och lagmannen Mikael Mellqvist ; redaktionssekreterare: kanslichefen David Säfwe och hovrättsrådet Per Claréus - 2016-01-01 -
Diskriminering byggs in och osynliggörs i domsluten – vi jurister måste ta detta på
allvar
Moa Bladini
Dagens juridik - 2014-01-01 -
I objektivitetens sken – en kritisk granskning av objektivitetsideal, objektivitetsanspråk och legitmeringsstrategier i diskurser om dömande i
brottmål
Moa Bladini
- 2013-01-01 -
Rätt utan Sanning? – en reflektion angående Sanningens roll i straffprocessen
idag
Moa Bladini
Nordisk Tidskrift for Kriminalvidenskab - 2008-01-01 -
Objektivitetsprincipen – tolkning och tillämpning i
rätten
Moa Bladini
Nordisk Workshop i Straffrätt 23-25.3.2007: Rapport, Red. Pirjo Laitinen - 2007-01-01