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Labor law is legislation specifying responsibilities and rights in employment, particularly the responsibilities of the employer and the rights of the employee. Research in the field focuses on traditional labour law, but also labour market policies.

Labour law’s sphere of activities has undergone a major transformation the last 50 years. In the past it it sufficed to determine what followed from Swedish law. Today the subject includes both European and global dimensions.

Sweden's integration with Europe in the field of labour law has created side-effects influencing both education and research. Many research projects in labour law reflect the European influence, whereas other projects are still deeply rooted in the traditional Swedish model.

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Researchers

Petra Herzfeld Olsson

Professor, prodekan

Department of Law
Petra Herzfeld Olsson

Kerstin Elisabeth Ahlberg

Föreståndare

Department of Law
Kerstin Ahlberg

Erik Akseli Sjödin

Senior lecturer

Swedish Institute for Social Research
Erik Sjödin

Erik Sinander

Universitetslektor i internationell privaträtt

Department of Law
Erik Sinander

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Research projects

Courses and programmes

Doctoral studies

If you want to further immerse yourself in legal science, and in particular within the field of labour law, apply for doctoral studies at the Department of Law. We offer a dynamic environment with research of the highest class and of strong international character.

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Centres and other units

The Institute for Social Private Law activities focus on research on the areas of private law that concern the basic conditions of social life and that affect people’s status as social beings – for example, labour law, tenancy law, and family law.

The activities are interdisciplinary insofar as more areas of law than private law are affected and that non-legal disciplines are also taken into account. The institute also attaches the utmost importance to collaboration with the surrounding society. 

Institute for Social Private Law 

Departments

By offering a wide range of academic programmes in law bringing together researchers, teachers and students from different horizons, the Department of Law at Stockholm University creates strong and stimulating educational and research environments of the highest class.

Department of Law