Lectures with new associate professors at the Faculty of Law

Gustaf Almkvist's research focuses on three themes: economic crime, sanctions and the general conditions for criminal liability. His thesis ‘Property crime and property law’ deals with how two different areas of law interact to define what is covered by the criminal provisions. It also covers more general issues, including the principle of legality. Gustaf has continued to do research on economic crime and is now working on money laundering issues. In terms of the sanctions system, Gustaf has published the book ‘Confiscation of Property’ and participated in the work of developing a completely new confiscation legislation, with new rules against the criminal economy.

Gustaf has also worked with sentencing issues, not least multiple offences. He is an expert in the Sentencing Reform Commission, which is currently reviewing large parts of the penal system.

Johanna Chamberlain's research is based on tort law issues that are often applied to legal areas under development. She defended her thesis ‘Privacy and Tort Law’ in 2020 at the Faculty of Law, Uppsala University. Johanna then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Commercial Law unit of the Department of Business Studies, within the WASP-HS-funded project "AI and the Financial Markets: Accountability and Risk Management with Legal Tools", with a focus on analysing the emerging EU regulation regarding risk management and liability issues related to AI systems. As of September 2024 Johanna is back at the Department of Law, where she has started her next postdoc project, funded by the Ragnar Söderberg Foundation. Over the next two years, she will delve into damages for environmental harm and more specifically PFAS damages - another dynamic area closely related to the concept of risk and with many ongoing legal proceedings.

Johanna is also the winner of the Uppsala University Oscar Prize, and the 2024 Stig Strömholm Prize for Humanities-oriented Research in Law and Social Sciences.

Yana Litins’ka received her LL.D. in Medical Law from Uppsala University in 2018 with a thesis on the assessment of capacity to make decisions on medical treatment in English, Swedish and Russian law, and whether these assessments are compliant with international human rights requirements and consistent with scientific knowledge on decision-making processes. Since her doctoral degree, she has worked on various medical law issues, such as access to healthcare for different groups of migrants, including asylum-seekers.

Currently, Yana is working at Lund University on an interdisciplinary research project called PREPARE - Improved preparedness for future pandemics and other health crises through large-scale disease surveillance.

Santa Slokenberga defended her thesis ‘European Legal Perspectives on Health-Related Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing’ in 2016, and has in her research continued to capure biobanking and data protection, and thereafter move on to examining the intersection of legal frameworks, ethics and biomedicine, with a particular focus on AI in healthcare, biomedical innovations, and human rights. She currenltly contributes to AI Care, WASP-ED, and PROMOT research projects, which address AI's role in healthcare, rare diseases, and pediatric patient and research subject protection. Through the PROMOT project, she focuses legal and ethical frameworks for precision medicine in neuromuscular disorders.

Additionally, Santa's work in a project on children's rights captures revisiting the human rights standards of biomedicine, including in genetic testing, organ donation, and emerging biotechnologies.