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Moa Bladini

Senior Lecturer

Department of
Law
Telephone
+46 31-786 12 93
Mail
moa.bladini@law.gu.se
Visiting address
Vasagatan 1
41124 Göteborg
Room number
C604
Postal address
Box 650
40530 Göteborg

About Moa Bladini

Research

My research fields are criminal law and criminal procedural law. Overarching themes in my research are power and justice, equality and gender equality, emotions and objectivity. Theoretical and methodological issues are central, and I have used critical discourse analysis, feminist theory, and have worked extensively interdisciplinarily in recent years.

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.

During the period 2017-2019, I worked in the interdisciplinary research project to Construct Objectivity - Emotions in Legal Decision-making together with Associate Professor Åsa Wettergren, Department of Sociology and Work Science at University of Gothenburg, Professor Stina Bergman Blix, Department of Sociology, Uppsala University (PI), and Dr. Nina Törnqvist, the Department of Criminology at Stockholm University. The project is funded by the Swedish Research Council.

2020-2021 I participated 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 worked with the Swedish part of the project together with professor Eva-Maria Svensson, Department of Law, University of Gothenburg. The project was led by professor Noelia Igareda González, at Universitat Autonoma Barcelona (UAB).

Current research projects

The above mentioned project on Contructing Objectivity is part of a larger comparative research project JUSTEMOTIONS, led by 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/

2020-2023 I am a researcher in the project Rape or consent? Effects of the new rape legislation on legal reasoning and practice. The project is led by Professor Åsa Wettergren, and co-researcher is Assistant Professor Sara Uhnoo at the Department of Sociology and Work Science at the University of Gothenburg.

2021-2023 I am the research leader of the Swedish part of the comparative project Profiling Nordic Perpetrators of Gendered Online Abuse: Who, Why and How to Curb the Harm. The project is carried out together with senior lecturer Wanna Svedberg Andersson, under the regime of NORDREF and financed by NIKK.

Forthcoming projects

2023.07-2026.06 I am the PI ofr the project Autonomy of the Judge in theory and practice – strengthening the independent judiciary, financed by Vetenskapsrådet [Swedish Research Council]. The project will be carried out with Dr Wanna Svedberg Andersson.

Supervision

Assistant supervisor since June 2013 to doctoral candidate Erik Björling (now Dr.) 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. Planned for final seminar in the end of 2023.

Assistant supervisor since autumn 2021 to doktoral candidate (in sociology) Marie Sundström working on the project The Real Rape - Application of the Swedish Rape Legislation 1965-2022 . The project is financed by the Swedish Crime Victim Authority and is part of the project Rape or Consent.

Teaching

My teaching includes criminal law as well as criminal procedure 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, I participate in the courses for PhD students and I have been part of the education of judges arranged 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

Teaching areas

  • Criminal Law
  • Criminal Procedure Law
  • Legal theory and research methods

Selected publications

Moa Bladini (2020) ’Silenced Voices. Online Violence Against Women as a Threat Against Democracy’ in Eva-Maria Svensson (Red.) Special Issue Exploiting Justice in a Transformative Swedish Society, Nordic Journal of Law and Society 3 (2) 2020, pp. 1-42. https://journals.ub.umu.se/index.php/njolas/article/view/156

Moa Bladini & Wanna Svedberg Andersson (2021) Swedish rape legislation from use of force to voluntariness – critical reflections from an everyday life perspective, in Special Issue on Rape laws in the Nordic Countries, in Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 8(2) 95-125, 2021. https://boap.uib.no/index.php/BJCLCJ/article/view/3241/3133

Lisa Wallin, Sara Uhnoo, Åsa Wettergren, & Moa Bladini (2021) Capricious credibility – legal assessments of voluntariness in Swedish negligent rape judgements, in Nordic Journal of Criminology, 22 (1), 3-22. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2578983X.2021.1898128

Wanna Svedberg Andersson & Moa Bladini (2021), ‘Autonomy and Beyond – Voluntariness in the Light of Lived Autonomy’, Special issue Dead or Alive? Contemproary and Future Approaches to Nordic Critical Legal Theory, in Retfærd, Nordic Journal of Law and Justice 3, 35-49, 2021.

Moa Bladini & Stina Bergman Blix (2022) ”The Judge under Pressure. Fostering objectivity by leaving the myth of dispassion” i Giannoupoulos, D. & McDermott Rees, Y. (Red.) Challenges to judicial independence in times of crisis, in Proceedings of the British Academy' volume on Judicial Independence 2022.

Moa Bladini, Sara Uhnoo & Åsa Wettergren (2023 in print) 'It sounds like lived experience. On empathy in rape trials' i International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice.