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Claes Granmar

About me

Researcher and associate professor (docent) specialised in European Law (EU law and the ECHR system); alumni at Oxford University, the UK (visiting fellow at the Institute for European and Comparative Law 2017/2018 and member of the SCR at the college Lady Margret Hall); Honorary Fellow at Melbourne Law School, Australia, 2019; former fellow at the Houser Global Law School Program, New York University (NYU), USA, and at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany. Claes wrote his PhD on trade mark rights and brand competition defebded at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, and at Stockholm University. In the course of writing his dissertation, he worked for two periods at the EFTA Court in Luxembourg. After defending his disseratation at the EUI, Claes has extended his field of research into EU internal market law and EU external trade relations law and policy in the context of constitutional EU law. He is focusing on digital globalisation and the EU digitial internal market.     

 

Teaching

  • Teacher (and recurrent course director): The undergraduate course in European law.
  • Course director of advanced course: EU external trade relation law and policy.
  • Course director of advanced course: European procedural law.
  • Course director of advanced course: EU internal market law (on hold 2024-2025).
  • Since 2009 teacher at various courses in intellectual property law, EU internal market law, EU external trade relations law, competition law, constitutional law and legal theory, at the law program and the master programs.
  • Teaching experiences from Lund University, Karlstad University and IECL in Oxford.
  • Supervisor and examiner of master theses in European law and public law.
  • Supervisor of the doctoral candidates Karolis Kubilevicus och Giorgi Parulava.
  • Head of the renowned Nordic moot court competition in human rights law.

Assignments

  • Member of the board of the SU law school. He was director of studies 2015-2017 and is a union representative since 2016.    
  • Member of the Stockholm University, School of Law, management board (and director of studies for the master programs in law at Stockholm University 2015-2017).
  • Board member of the Stockholm University, Institute for European legal studies.
  • Board member of Europarättslig tidskrift (leading Nordic journal in European law).
  • Board member of the Swedish section of the Pan-Europa NGO.
  • Board member of the national Swedish university teacher's trade union.
  • Board member of the local university teacher's trade union, Stockholm university.  
  • Secretary general of the Forum for ECHR-studies that is organising the Nordic moot court competition in human rights law.
  • Board member of the Institute for european and public law (IOIR).
  • Appointed as expert in public investigations, national reports and as legal consult.

Research

Monographs: Varumärkesskydd - en handbok om varumärken och domännamn, Jure (2003); trade mark paradoxes and european brand competition, Jure on demand (2014).

Editor for anthologies: Data Rights in Transition (forthcomming), Cambridge Elements Series, 2024; AI and Fundamental Rights, Jure and e-pub., 2018.

Chapters in anthologies: Sweden, Fundamental Rights and the EU Charter, in On the relation between the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and National Fundamental Rights, Springer, 2024; Investmentment protection and the European unification process, in The EU Law of Investment, Hart Publishing 2024 (forthcomming); Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Rights from a European Perspective, in AI & Fundamental Rights, Jure and e-pub, 2018; Vad legitimererar rättskällorna inom Unionsrätten? in kritiskt tänkande inom unionsrätten 2018; A New Public in the Old World!? in Liber Amicorum Jan Rosén, 2016; Intellectual Property Rights and the Single Market, in European Intellectual Proerty Law, Edward Elgar 2016. 

Author of a great number of articles and reports. 

European PI for a joint EU sponsored project with the University in Milan, Italy, and Pune, India, on the use of AI in the health care sector (SPARC). 

Research projects

Publications

For further information see the DiVA database. See also most recently:

Comparative study för the public investigation SOU 2023:05 

Europeanisation, in Scandinavian Studies in Law Volume 70, 2024 

A reality check of the Schrems saga, Nordic Journal of European Law, Vol. 4 No. 2 2021 (2022 listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: LSN: Other Regulation of Information & Privacy Issues Involving Consumers).

 

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