I am a Doctoral Candidate at the Faculty of Law, Lund University. My research interests include issues of international law - in particular theory and history of international law, international humanitarian law, and international law of belligerent occupation - theory of law, Islamic law, political theology, psychoanalysis, ethics, materiality of law, and law/poetry. I am a partner in research of the NordForsk sponsored interdisciplinary research network Norms and Narratives in the Nordic Nations (NoNa) (http://www.normsandnarratives.com/). I am a member of the Board of Directors at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at Lund University (http://www.cmes.lu.se/). I teach within the fields of international law, Islamic law, peace and conflict studies, gender studies, and human rights studies. I have published a number of academic articles and book chapters in the fields of international law, Islamic law and judicial culture. I am also a published poet and writer, and a member of SkAlla writers' cooperative (www.SkAlla.se). Current research projects include - Doctoral project: Law, Subject and the Body in the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) of Iraq Archives: Administration of occupation and the making of the Administrator. - Echoes from the underpass: (Re)mediating the Urban Landscape. (At the Inter Arts Centre , Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, Lund University http://www.iac.lu.se/; with Charlotte Webb, Mattias Hansson, Marie Thorin, J. T. Welsh, Baris Yemenici, Amanda Gouirand, Emma Gustafsson, Pierre Björklund, Filip Wangefjord and Johan Björkwall; http://echoesfromtheunderpass.com/).
Contributions to Books
Ockupationsrättens politiska teologi, Vän eller fiende - En antologi om Carl Schmitts politiska tänkande (2012)
Facing the unknown/defacing the known: Mahr in Swedish courts, Embedding Mahr in the European Legal System (2011)
The chapter is concerned with the place of Muslim family law in the Swedish national...
How long is ‘now’? The Christian eschatological concept of time within international laws of, in, and after war: a critique of law and of our Nordic societies, Law & Religion in the 21st Century – Nordic Perspectives: New Life in the Ruins – Pluralistic renewal in the Lutheran setting (2010)
The epitome of this article is the reflection upon the question of “How long is...
Shari’a from behind the bench: Court culture, judicial culture and a judge-made discourse on Shari’a at a Swedish district court, Shariʻa as discourse : Legal traditions and the encounter with Europe (2010)
Articles
Who happens here? Ethical responsibility, subjectivity, and corporeality: Self-accounts in the Archive of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) of Iraq, NoFoundations - Journal of Extreme Legal Positivism (2011)
På vägen till Damaskus: Suveränen, tiden och rätten. En läsning av Carl Schmitt i undantagstillståndet, kriget och ockupationen, Från Schlyters lustgård (2007)
The Presence of Absence of Personal Identity: Everyday Conditions of Practicing Law, Från Schlyters Lustgård: Jag sträcker mig in i framtiden (2007)
Rättens ordning i den tid som återstår, Från Schlyters lustgård (2006)
The article investigates the fundamental concept of 'time' within the framework of the laws of...
Malexandertalet: ett tal - två situationer, RetorikMagasinet (2000)
In this article the court speech delivered by the "Malexander widow", Anneli Ljungberg, is analysed...
Unpublished Papers
Negotiating love, law, and Islam in Swedish-Gambian marriages (2012)
This paper is concerned with love, law and Islam in marriages between Swedish women and...
Att göra skillnad: Maskuliniteter i den internationella humanitärrätten och ICRC:s film ”International Humanitarian Law: A Universal Code" (2012)
I detta paper analyserar jag maskuliniteter i relation till den internationella humanitärättens (IHL) materiella innehåll...
Att arbeta med sig själv: pedagogiska tankar utifrån Stanislavskij (2008)
I detta paper utgår jag ifrån Konstantin Stanislavskijs En skådespelares arbete med sig själv och...
The Political Theology of IKEA: An Ethnographical Account of Subjectification at an IKEA Store (2008)
This paper is an ethnographical account of a visit to the IKEA store in Älmhult,...
Popular Press
Young women and urbanization - trying to cope in crowded cities (with Lucia Kiwala), Habitat Debate (2003)
The article pins down problems of urbanization, poverty, and youth at risk, focusing on the...
Conference abstracts
The Law of the Neighbor: The Political Demography of International Law, The Political Demography of International Law (2012)
Contributions to Law and Religion from International Law and Theology: Current and Future Research in the Time that Remains, Law & Religion: Beyond Boundaries (2012)
The Political Theology of International Law of Belligerent Occupation: Distribution of Authority and Fulfilment in Core and Peripheries, International Law and the periphery conference (2012)
Embedded in international law of belligerent occupation is something which is often referred to as...
Carl Schmitt och ocupationsrättens politiska teologi, Carl Schmitt Symposium, University of Gothenburg (2011)
Syftet med detta paper är att (1) visa på hur Carl Schmitts formuleringar kring politisk...
Preservation and transformation: The political theology of international law of belligerent occupation, Folkrättsdagen 2011 (2011)
This paper is concerned with the "paradox" of international law of belligerent occupation: the coexistence...
Law/Poetry
Celebration (2012)
This poem explores and comments on the role of poetry and the limits of international...