Carl Fredrik Bergström
Professor at Department of Law; Professors, Instructors, Researchers
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 425 07 31
- E-mail:
- Carl.Fredrik.Bergstrom@jur.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Trädgårdsgatan 1, Trädgårdsgatan 20
- Postal address:
- Box 512
751 20 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
Carl Fredrik Bergström is Professor of European Law and Law Faculty Deputy Dean responsible for research. His main areas of expertise are EU law, constitutional theory and legal methods, and his current research focuses on the right to access documents in Europe and crises' influence on the EU and its member states with a focus on energy.
Biography
Carl Fredrik Bergström is Professor of European Law at Uppsala University since 2010. He has a background as researcher at the European University Institute in Florence (1995-2002), lecturer at Stockholm University (1996-2006) and Head of Legal Research at SIEPS, the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (2002-2009). Carl Fredrik Bergström is Law Faculty Deputy Dean responsible for research (2023-).
Research
Carl Fredrik Bergström has his main field of expertise in the law of the European Union, with a focus on inter-relationship to national constitutional law, fundamental principles and system of norms, regulatory behaviour and legal methods. His current research projects are the following:
EU Rulemaking in Response to Crisis (2): The Legal Governance of Energy
Den svenska offentlighetsprincipen i EU – konstitutionell särart och europeisk författningstradition
Title EN: The Swedish Principle of Open Government in the EU – National Identity and Common Tradition

Publications
Selection of publications
Den svenska offentlighetsprincipen i Europa: En särpräglad konstitutionell tradition?
Part of Vänbok till Sverker Scheutz, p. 55-70, Iustus förlag, 2020
Review: Mendes, J (Ed), EU Executive Discretion and the Limits of Law, Oxford University Press 2019
Part of Common market law review, 2020
EU:s grundfördrag och rättighetsstadga: Studentlitteratur 2019
Studentlitteratur AB, 2019
2018
Riksdag och regering bakom svagare offentlighetsprincip, DN Debatt 2018-03-26
2018
Oxford University Press, 2016
Part of Common market law review, p. 219-242, 2015
Introduktion till EU-rätten: Studentlitteratur 2014
2014
Changing Rules of Delegation - a Contest for Power in Comitology: Oxford University Press 2013
Oxford University Press, 2013
Europeiseringen av Sverige: SNS Förlag 2919
SNS förlag, 2010
Lissabonfördraget – en grundlag för EU?: Norstedts Juridik 2010
Norstedts Juridik, 2010
Oxford University Press, 2005
Recent publications
Part of Grundläggande juridisk metod, p. 100-122, Iustus förlag, 2025
Part of Europarättslig tidskrift, p. 583-586, 2024
EU:s rättsstatsprincip och domstolarnas oberoende
Norstedts Juridik AB, 2024
EU Rulemaking in Response to Crisis: the Emergence of the Principle of Energy Solidarity and Its Use
Part of Nordic Journal of European Law, p. 100-112, 2023
- DOI for EU Rulemaking in Response to Crisis: the Emergence of the Principle of Energy Solidarity and Its Use
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2023
All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Europarättslig tidskrift, p. 583-586, 2024
EU Rulemaking in Response to Crisis: the Emergence of the Principle of Energy Solidarity and Its Use
Part of Nordic Journal of European Law, p. 100-112, 2023
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Riksdag och regering bakom svagare offentlighetsprincip
Part of Dagens nyheter, 2018
Part of Common market law review, p. 219-242, 2015
Part of European Constitutional Law Review, p. 481-499, 2014
Subsidiaritetsprövning: Riksdagen hittar en ny roll i EU:s lagstiftningsprocess
Part of Europarättslig tidskrift, p. 423-428, 2010
Part of Europarättslig tidskrift, 2008
Lissabonfördraget: hur ändras EU?
Part of Europarättslig tidskrift, 2008
Part of West European Politics, 2007
EU:s framtidskonvent och förslaget om införande av en formell normhierarki
Part of Europarättslig tidskrift, 2003
De fristående myndigheternas ställning i EU:s konstitution
Part of Europarättslig tidskrift, 2003
Fåfängans fyrverkeri? EU:s ordförandeskap och Sveriges chans till en plats i rampljuset
Part of Europarättslig tidskrift, 1999
Den nya gemenskapsrätten: Expertkommittéer, Europabyråer och EG-domstolens inaktivism
Part of Juridisk Tidskrift, 1998
Presentation av det nya Europafördraget
Part of Juridisk Tidskrift, 1998
L’Europa oltre il mercato interno: commento al trattato di Amsterdam
Part of Rivista di diritto pubblico comunitario europeo, 1998
Konstitutionell rätt och europeisk integration: En kommentar till de tyska bananfallen
Part of Juridisk Tidskrift, 1997
Books
EU:s rättsstatsprincip och domstolarnas oberoende
Norstedts Juridik AB, 2024
Introduktion till EU-rätten: Studentlitteratur 2014
2014
EU:s grundfördrag och annan primärrätt: Studentlitteratur 2014
Studentlitteratur AB, 2014
Changing Rules of Delegation - a Contest for Power in Comitology: Oxford University Press 2013
Oxford University Press, 2013
Europeiseringen av Sverige: SNS Förlag 2919
SNS förlag, 2010
Lissabonfördraget – en grundlag för EU?: Norstedts Juridik 2010
Norstedts Juridik, 2010
Lissabonfördraget – konsoliderad version av EU:s fördrag
SNS förlag, 2007
Oxford University Press, 2005
Comitology – Delegation of Powers in the European Union and the Committee System: Doctoral Thesis
Stockholm University, 2003
Chapters in book
Part of Grundläggande juridisk metod, p. 100-122, Iustus förlag, 2025
Part of Routes to a Resilient European Union, p. 169-194, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022
EU Rulemaking in the Internal Market after the Financial Crisis
Part of Legal Accountability in EU Markets for Financial Instruments, p. 3-30, Oxford University Press, 2021
Investment Firms, Accountability, and the Effective Rule of Law
Part of Legal Accountability in EU Markets for Financial Instruments, p. 305-326, Oxford University Press, 2021
Una retrospettiva agli anni fiorentini: moderna mönster för regelskrivning om den inre marknaden
Part of Festskrift till Ulf Bernitz (85), p. 10, Jure, 2021
Part of Vägar till ett uthålligt EU, p. 23, Santérus Förlag, 2021
Den svenska offentlighetsprincipen i Europa: En särpräglad konstitutionell tradition?
Part of Vänbok till Sverker Scheutz, p. 55-70, Iustus förlag, 2020
Part of FIDE XXVII Congress in Budapest 2016, Wolters Kluwer, 2016
Part of Rulemaking by the European Commission: the New System for Delegation of Powers, p. 1-17, Oxford University Press, 2016
Patterns and Findings: Five Central Themes
Part of Rulemaking by the Euroepan Commission: the New System for Delegation of Powers, p. 257-269, Oxford University Press, 2016
Use or abuse of National Constitutional Requirements in the Dynamic Development of EU Treaties?
Part of Think Global - Act European, p. 243-247, Notre Europe, 2010
Part of Think Global Act European: European Think Tanks Contribution to the Trio of the French, Czech and Swedish Presidencies of the Union, Notre Europe, 2008
Institutional Rule Five: Controlling the Implementation Powers of the Commission
Part of Explaining Institutional Change in Europe, Oxford University Press, 2007
Kommittologi: Ett nära samarbete mellan kommissionen och den nationella förvaltningen
Part of Europaperspektiv 2002 – Årsbok för europaforskning, Santérus Förlag, 2002
Part of Festskrift till Ulf Bernitz, Europarättslig tidskrift, 2001
The Ioannina and Luxembourg Compromises
Part of Butterworths Expert Guide on the European Union, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997
Part of Annual Report of The Nordic Council for Research in European Integration Law (NORFEIR), NORFEIR, 1996
Collections (editor)
Legal Accountability in EU Markets for Financial Instruments: The Dual Role of Investment Firms
Oxford University Press, 2021
EU:s grundfördrag och rättighetsstadga: Studentlitteratur 2019
Studentlitteratur AB, 2019
Oxford University Press, 2016
En konstitution för Europa? Reflektioner
Svenska institutet för europapolitiska studier, 2004
Reports
2023
2018
Lissabonfördraget: Report SIEPS 2008:11
2008
Giving Globalisation a European Face: Report from European Parlaiment Expert Group L’Esprit de Sel
2008
2008
Vad hände(r) med den konstitutionella krisen i EU?
2006
EU:s lagstiftning i siffror 1995-2005
2005
Simply Simplification? The Proposal for a Hierarchy of Legal Acts
2003
Decentralized Agencies and the IGC: a Question of Accountability
2003
2000
1998
1998
Rättsligt skydd av grundläggande fri- och rättigheter i den Europeiska Unionen
1996
Other
Hedersledamoten: Några ögonblick från Europa
2021
Några ögonblick från Europa: Hedersledamoten
2021
Review: Mendes, J (Ed), EU Executive Discretion and the Limits of Law, Oxford University Press 2019
Part of Common market law review, 2020
Riksdag och regering bakom svagare offentlighetsprincip, DN Debatt 2018-03-26
2018
The Swedish Principle of Open Government
2018
2011
Svensk grundlag måste anpassas bättre till EU: DN Debatt 6 Maj 2010
2010
La Suède pour une Europe diverse et forte
2009
2008
2008
Recension av Hegeland, H, Nationell EU-parlamentarism, Santérus Förlag 2006
Part of Europarättslig tidskrift, 2007
Governance and the EU Securities Sector: NEWGOV Project Final Report
2006
2006
Governance and the EU Securities Sector: NEWGOV Project Working Paper
2004
2002
2001
Part of Europarättslig tidskrift, 1999
Recension av Nergelius, J, Amsterdamfördraget och EU:s institutionella maktbalans
Part of Europarättslig tidskrift, 1999
1997
Europe beyond the Internal Market: a Commentary on the Amsterdam Treaty
1997