Henrik Wenander's research focuses on the internationalization of public law
and the cross-border cooperation of administrative authorities and agencies
(international administrative law or global administrative law). 

In his research he has explored duties to recognise foreign administrative decisions, the
possible limitations of such duties and the handling of cases involving recognition. He
has also published articles on the interplay between Swedish administrative and
procedural law with EU law. 

Henrik Wenander teaches Swedish and European administrative law and constitutional law at
the Faculty of Law, Lund university, Sweden. He visited the Max Planck Institute for
Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany as a guest researcher
in 2006. In 2007, Henrik Wenander served as a trainee at the EFTA Court in Luxembourg. In
2009/2010 he worked for the Secretariat of the Nordic Council of Ministers, Copenhagen,
in a project concerning the removal of intra-Nordic barriers to free trade. 

Henrik Wenander publishes in English and Swedish. He is also fluent in German and speaks
French and Czech. 

Current research projects: 

1. The International Cooperation of Social Insurance Agencies. Funded by the Swedish
Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan), 2011-2012. 

2. The Instrument of Government and the Public Administration: From the Separation of
Powers to the Separation of Functions - and Back Again? The Constitutional Relation
between the Swedish Government and the Public Administration in International and
Historical Perspective (together with Bengt Lundell). Funded by the Swedish Research
Council (Vetenskapsrådet), 2011-2014. 

Expertise: Expert for the Swedish national report for the "Study on the liability of
legal persons for offences in the national legal systems of the Member States" and
the "Study on disqualifications as a sanctioning measure in the national systems of
the Members States", both funded by DG JUSTICE of the European Commission and under
the auspices of the Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP) at
Ghent University, Belgium.

Administrative and Constitutional Law

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En princip om internationell öppenhet – 1 kap. 10 § regeringsformen och socialförsäkringsrätten, Förvaltningsrättslig tidskrift (2011)
 

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Recognition of Foreign Administrative Decisions – Balancing International Cooperation, National Self-Determination, and Individual Rights, Heidelberg Journal of International Law (Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht) (2011)

In public international law, EU law, and national law there are numerous rules and principles...

 
Erkännande av utländska förvaltningsbeslut (Recognition of Foreign Administrative Decisions) (2010)

This thesis investigates the effects of foreign administrative decisions in the Swedish legal system. In...

 

European Union Law

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Withdrawal of National Administrative Decisions under European Administrative Law, European Law Reporter (2007)

The article comments on ECJ Case C-392/04 i-21. The main issue of the case was...