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 in the event of a breach of the GDPR. The opponent, Professor Bjarte Askeland, described the thesis as well-written and valuable, and also pointed out that Sandberg presents modern Nordic compensation law in the light of new technology and the influence of EU law, while at the same time carrying on a tradition of skill and scientific quality. The examining [...]

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 [...]

On 17 November 2023, Girion Blomdahl defended his dissertation Who owns nature – A property law study on the relationship between the use of property rights and the protection of nature. Not least the political discussions in recent years show that there can be a contradiction between property rights – the right to use what you own – and the protection of nature. At the same time, both property rights and nature conservation are given importance. In the thesis, Girion analyses the balancing of interests and proportionality assessments that are made when nature's existing values are to be protected. [...]

Since 2012, the Swedish Bar Association has awarded an annual prize for outstanding contributions to the legal profession. This year’s award has been given to André Andersson, Chairman of the SCCL and Senior Adviser at Mannheimer Swartling. He receives the award for, among other things, his commitment to and work for legal research and teaching. It was presented by the Society’s Secretary General Mia Edwall Insulander at this year’s Lawyers’ Days (Advokatdagarna), which took place at the Grand Hotel on 26-27 October. “This year’s winner receives the award for his outstanding contributions to the legal profession by combining professional skills, [...]