Daniel Hedlund

Short presentation

Daniel Hedlund is Associate Professor in Sociology of Law and senior lecturer in Administrative Law with a focus on social legislation. He conducts multidisciplinary research and mainly teaches Social and Welfare Law. Daniel is interested in the legal, political and institutional challenges facing the welfare state, specifically in connection to human rights, migration, children's rights, minorities and integration.

Keywords

• human rights
• childrens rights
• welfare state
• • migration and integration
• • social theory and social change
• social welfare law
• minorities

Biography

Associate Professor in Sociology of Law (2022). Senior lecturer in Administrative Law with a focus on social legislation, Department of Law, Uppsala University, since 2025.

Before joining Uppsala, Daniel was senior lecturer in Social Work with a focus on Administrative Law at Stockholm University (2022-2025). Prior to that, he held two consecutive postdoctoral positions; in Migration Law (Uppsala University, 2019-2021) and within the cross-faculty initiative Children, Migration, Integration (Stockholm University, 2017-2019).

• Associate Professor/Reader in Sociology of Law, Faculty of Law, Uppsala University, 2022.
• Doctor of Philosophy, Stockholm University, 2016.
• Master of Human Rights, University of Sydney, 2011.
• Master of Laws (Swedish first-professional degree in Law), Stockholm University, 2008; including an exchange-year at the Faculty of Law, University of Chile (Linnaeus-Palme scholar, 2005).
• Bachelor of Social Science, Stockholm University, 2007.