On 4 March 2026, the SCCL and the Stockholm Environmental Law and Policy Centre, both of Juridicum Stockholms universitet, hosted a conference to explore the evolving landscape of corporate accountability. In her introductory remarks, SCCL Director Sara Göthlin highlighted the ”Tragedy of the Horizon”; a concept framing climate change as a problem that is still systematically underestimated by markets and regulators due to its long-term nature. Jonas Ebbesson, professor at Stockholms universitet, opened the discussion by defining the core of transboundary corporate responsibility and highlighting three legal dimensions; substance, procedure and subjectivity. Ebbesson offered an overview of international instruments, [...]

We are pleased to announce the appointment of the new Board of SCCL. Collectively, the Board brings a broad and distinguished range of experience from research, legal practice, public administration, and the judiciary. The board members are appointed for a term of three years. In order left to right, they are: Dick Lundqvist, CEO of Wallenberg Investments. Johnny Herre, independent arbitrator, previously Swedish Supreme Court Justice and professor of civil law. Laura Carlson, professor of labour law and Academic Director of International Affairs at the Faculty of Law, Stockholm University, fellow of the SCCL. Erik Lidman, professor of corporate law [...]

On 12 December, ICC Sweden, together with seven of Sweden’s leading business organizations, submitted a joint legislative proposal to the Government to enable digital trade documents under Swedish law. The proposal has been authored by Emil Elgebrant, Associate Professor at the Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law (SCCL). It has been anchored and has received broad support from the business community, academia, and the legal profession, including within the framework of ICC Sweden’s working group on Digital Trade Documents, led by Stefan Brocker, Mannheimer Swartling. The reform would entail significant efficiency gains, allowing documents that currently must exist in paper [...]

A new Nordic law journal has been born! Yesterday, the Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law (SCCL) at Juridicum Stockholms universitet, through its director Sara Göthlin, participated in the launch of the Nordic Commercial Law Review (NCLR), an open-access journal that will increase the availability and impact of the work of Nordic legal scholars. The journal was presented by Editor-in-Chief Johan Bärlund and Deputy Editor Mads Bryde Andersen at a lovely launch event hosted by Karnov Group Denmark. The editorial board also includes Ellen J. Eftestøl, Valgerður Sólnes, and Svante O. Johansson. The NCLR will serve as a platform for [...]

On 23–24 October, the third Nordic Symposium on Pledge Law was held in Stockholm. The event was a collaboration between the Commercial Law Research Centre at Lund University (ACLU), the Oslo Centre for Commercial Law, the Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law (SCCL), and the Gothenburg Centre for Commercial and Maritime Law. The opening speakers included Janne Kaisto (Finland), Astrid Millung-Christoffersen (Denmark), Roger Stelander Magnussen and Erik Røsæg (Norway), and Annina H. Persson (Sweden). Göran Millqvist and P. G. Ekbom spoke on the Cape Town Convention, while Johan Schelin provided an overview of the rules governing the creation of security [...]

Starting this semester, the Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law (SCCL) at Juridicum Stockholms universitet has the privilege of hosting Robin Ollus as guest researcher. Ollus is joining us from the University of Helsinki and specialises in arbitration law. His doctoral research focuses on the arbitral tribunal's competence to handle allegations and suspicions of criminal conduct in international commercial arbitration. Moreover, the research strives to assess how the function and principles of criminal procedure affect the arbitral procedure when handling such allegations as part of a contractual or non-contractual dispute. As the main method of the research, a comparison of international [...]

On september 11th, a well-attended seminar was held at the Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law (SCCL) on preparedness and resilience - particularly on operational crisis management. During the seminar, discussions were held on how the legal framework can be used to improve the conditions for payment systems, capital supply, and risk management to function during a major crisis. Special attention was given to a current legislative proposal for a new function for operational crisis management aimed at handling severe operational disruptions in the financial system. Aron Verständig opened with a background on the legislative proposal. Maria Lundström explained the [...]

We are thrilled to welcome Andreas Gustafsson as Visiting Fellow here at the SCCL and the Swedish Corporate Governance Institute (SCGI)! Andreas has a deep expertise in capital markets law and regulation, moving from senior leadership roles into the position of doctoral researcher. He has just embarked on a research project where he will compare the UK and Swedish equity markets to identify and organise regulatory conditions that supports growth in the wider economy. He describes the output as advancing the “equity market ecosystem” into a research-based theory, informed by current economic knowledge and the last 20-30 years of regulation [...]

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 [...]