Recipient of the 2026 Stig Strömholm Prize chosen
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Anni Carlsson will be awarded the Stig Strömholm Prize for Humanities-oriented Research in Law and Social Sciences in connection with Uppsala University’s anniversary on 7 October. Photo: Tobias Björkegren.
Anni Carlsson, lecturer in constitutional law at the Swedish Defence University, has been awarded this year’s Stig Strömholm Prize for Humanities-oriented Research in Law and Social Sciences. The prize consists of a sum of SEK 50,000 along with a diploma and an engraved pen.
The prize committee’s justification for choosing Anni Carlsson states:
"In our time, the boundaries of free speech and the forms for the democratic conversation are increasingly controlled by privately-owned, cross-border social media. In her thesis Constitutional Protection of Freedom of Expression in the Age of Social Media, Anni Carlsson investigates the intractable problems that the constitutional protection for freedom of expression faces in the new media landscape, and she does so with jurisprudential acumen and an exceptional stylistic ability. Attacking these problems from both a comparative law and a European law perspective, she has made a commendable study in particular of the Swedish tradition of freedom of expression in relation to ongoing international developments in media. Her study makes a very valuable contribution to our knowledge about an extremely dynamic area of the utmost importance for the democratic rule of law. She has thereby promoted law as a form of cultural expression in the spirit of Professor Stig Strömholm."
Prize ceremony
The prize will be presented in connection with the commemoration of the University’s anniversary on 7 October.
The prize winner is expected to give a lecture in conjunction with a dinner celebrating Stig Strömholm’s birthday on 16 September.
Anders Berndt
The Stig Strömholm Prize for Humanities-oriented Research in Law and Social Sciences
Professor emeritus in civil law with international private law, Stig Strömholm was the Vice-Chancellor of Uppsala University from 1989 to 1997. In connection with his 90th birthday on 16 September 2021, the University decided to establish a prize in the spirit of Stig Strömholm.
The prize is awarded to a young scholar active in the Nordic countries as a reward for promoting law as a form of cultural expression.
The prize was awarded for the first time in 2023.