Corporations in Public Law in Modern Swedish Law

Under the Swedish Constitution of 1974, from a Constitutional Law point of view, there can only be to kinds of legal persons: either authorities – that belong to the organisational sphere of the State or the municipalities – or private-law associations. This stance leads to classificatory problems with regard to organisations such as the Swedish Academy or the Church of Sweden, that have their legal foundations in statute, but are administered by their members in private-law forms. The project aims at showing the existence of such mixed forms between authorities and private associations – called corporations in public law – and shall assess their regulatory function as well as their legal-technical properties.