A leading research centre in Commercial Law in the Nordic region
SCCL is under superintendence of the Area Board of Humanities and Social Sciences at Stockholm University. SCCL was inaugurated with inspiration from the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. Today around 25 researchers, focusing on Commercial Law, are affiliated to SCCL, which makes SCCL to the leading research centre in Commercial Law in the Nordic region.
The Swedish Corporate Governance Institute, SCGI, is a new part of the SCCL, and will function as a research panel for corporate governance.
SCCL is in its activities focusing on:
News
SCCL has a new director
On 1 July 2025, Sara Göthlin has taken over as the new director of SCCL. With her solid experience and commitment to commercial law, Sara will lead the Centre's work, including strengthening SCCL as a research environment and our international [...]
Obituary Per Jonas Nordell
The professor of private law, as well as the image creator and poet, Per Jonas Nordell has left us suddenly and unexpectedly. He is missing us. Several of us here at the Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law knew Per Jonas [...]
Fredrik Sandberg defended his dissertation
On 23 May, we at SCCL and Stockholm University celebrated our colleague Fredrik Sandberg, who successfully defended his dissertation Liability for damages in personal data processing. Sandberg has produced a solid and much asked for thesis on liability for damages [...]
Exchange program with Bonn University
The Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law is very proud to have its first visiting junior scholar from the University of Bonn, Dominik Zilsdorf. Dominik is a doctoral research student under Prof. Dr. Moritz Brinkmann, LL.M. (McGill) at the Institute [...]
Ownership and accessibility of art.
Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law, together with Klubb Moderna and Nationalmusei Vänner, arranged a seminar on 2 April 2025: Ownership and accessibility of art. The seminar was held in the Auditorium at Moderna Museet, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm. [...]
SCCL expands into maritime and transport law through merger
At the last board meeting on 14 May 2024, it was decided to merge SCCL and the Maritime Law Library. Axel A:son Johnson's Institute for Maritime and Other Transport Law. The institute is led by Associate Professor Johan Schölin [...]
New research panel is established
At the last board meeting on 14 May 2024, it was decided to establish a new research panel at SCCL, Lawyers and Society. Many prominent law faculties around the world have programs, institutes, centers, or the like devoted to the [...]
Award to Sara Göthlin
Award to Sara Göthlin This year, the Insolvency Law Forum Foundation's Literature Prize went to one of our employees, LL.D. Sara Göthlin, for her doctoral dissertation Priority and Agreement – Intercreditor Agreement in Swedish Law, especially in Insolvency. She [...]
