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 exchanges.Sara Göthlin has been affiliated with the Centre since 2019, and defended her thesis in property and insolvency law in 2023 with elements of financial market law. Since then, she has conducted an externally funded research project on company reorganisation at SCCL. Since 2020, she has been the course director for the special course Financial Markets and Credit. Sara previously [...]

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 as a long-term colleague and good friend, and we were delighted when it became known about a year ago, that Per Jonas would move to the Centre, which took place in September 2024. However, the company and collaboration were sadly interrupted, but we did get a glimpse of Per Jonas' abilities at the latest Research day at Åkeshof Castle last [...]

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 of German and International Civil Procedure Law. His dissertation focuses on the third-party binding effect of arbitration agreements. Analysing the current approach in Germany, Dominik systematizes the German jurisprudence with the objective of facilitating the determination of whether a third party is bound by an arbitration agreement. Dominik received his law degree from the University of Bonn, has been a [...]

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. When the art world meets the legal world, interesting and complicated issues arise. SCCL invited the local legal community together with the members of Klubb Moderna and Nationalmusei Vänner as well as other interested to a seminar exploring the interaction between art and law. A well-known conundrum is the question of looted art. How do we [...]

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 and he and the institute will soon move from the Department of Law to SCCL's premises. The institute will continue its activities and at the same time become a research panel within SCCL. The institute can be reached via https://www.sjorattsbiblioteket.se/

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 study and support of various aspects of the legal profession. The topic ranges from issues related to law as a career and business, the role of lawyers in society, the work environment of lawyers, to legal certainty and the provision of justice, etc. The research panel will, from an interdisciplinary perspective, focus on four core areas to examine the structures, [...]

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 shared the prize with Markus Ehrenpil, LL.D. (Uppsala University), for his doctoral dissertation Reconstruction Settlement. Sara defended her thesis at Stockholm University in 2023. The justification for the prize, which was read out by the chairman of the foundation, prof. em. Mikael Möller, said: "In the thesis, Göthlin conducts the first in-depth investigation of the substantive and insolvency law effects [...]

On April 10-12, 2024, 23 SCCL members visited Bonn to participate in the Stockholm-Bonn Law Symposium 2024. On the Bonn side, the event was organised and chaired by Professor Birke Häcker Director of the Institute for International and Comparative Private Law. On the Stockholm side, the management was in the hands of SCCL’s director, Professor Göran Millqvist, and SCCL’s chairman of the board, Dr. h.c. André Andersson. The arrangement was handled by Ass. Professor Johan Sandstedt and doctoral student Hanna Larsson. On 11 April 2024, Professor Häcker opened with a presentation on the theme “Law as a Science? Comparative Reflections of Classrooms, [...]

SCCL's Research Department for Labour and Discrimination Law, together with the Institute for Social Private Law, held a well-attended seminar, Sympathy Actions – Under Pressure? 22 February 2024. Over 120 participants attended. The theme was based on the protracted conflict between the car company Tesla and the trade union IF Metall. After the union announced industrial action to get Tesla to enter into a collective agreement for its operations in Sweden, the conflict has expanded, and twelve other unions from Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway have taken sympathy actions in support of IF Metall. Professor Petra Herzfeld Olsson, Stockholm [...]