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Ester Herlin-Karnell

Professor

Department of Law
Telephone
+46 31-786 15 18
Mail
ester.herlin-karnell@law.gu.se
Visiting address
Vasagatan 1
41124 Göteborg
Room number
C517
Postal address
Box 650
40530 Göteborg

About Ester Herlin-Karnell

I am a Professor of EU law. My main research interests lie in the area of EU constitutional law, EU security regulation, EU criminal law & market regulation, constitutional law theory, and political theory. I was previously a Professor of EU Constitutional Law and Justice and a University Research Chair at VU University Amsterdam where I was the co-director and founder of the Centre for European Legal Studies (2009-2019). I hold a DPhil in law from Somerville, College Oxford, an LLM from King’s College London, and a Jur Kand (LLM) from Stockholm University.

I have been a visiting fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Uppsala University School of Law, New York University (Emile Noël Fellow), Michigan University Law School, European University Institute, WZB Berlin Centre for Global Constitutionalism, the Global Trust Centre at Tel Aviv University, Haifa University Minerva Centre for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions and at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law. I have also been a visiting professor at the Global Law program at Haifa University.

My publications include (Hart publishing 2019), with N Ryder) and (Hart Publishing 2012) and numerous articles and book chapters. I am also the co-author (with G Conway & A Ganesh) , a textbook published in 2021. I have also co-edited several edited volumes and special journal issues. Recent edited volumes include: ', Oxford University Press (co-edited with E Rossi) and (co-edited M Klatt and assistant editor H Morales Zúniga, Oxford University Press 2019).

I am currently a work package leader (WP3) of an EU Horizon funded project HRJust on human rights justifications and a co-convenor of a research cluster on European Constitutional Law & Comparative Constitutional Law at GU.

Moreover, I am an Associate Editor of (Springer) and a member of the editorial boards of and the I am also on the editorial advisory boards of the and of Brill publishing EU criminal law book series respectively.

Current PhD supervision at GU: Dmitrii Kuznetsov “Separation of powers and the role of the judiciary in implementation of states’ environmental obligations” (main supervisor), Johanna Gipperth, "EU External Relations and Climate Change" ( HRJust project- main supervisor), Hugo Lundberg "understanding sanctions in international law from a theoretical lens" - (second supervisor).

For a publication list, please see my CV. For an interview in connection with my professorship here (see this in Swedish).

On other web sites

Research areas

  • EU criminal law, AFSJ law, market regulation, data protection
  • EU constitutional law
  • Constitutional theory & political theory, especially republican theory and Kantian theory

Teaching areas

Current and recent teaching areas:

  • EU law
  • Area of Freedom, Security and Justice & Comparative Constitutional Law
  • Legal theory
  • EU Criminal Law
  • Criminal law

Some recent and selected publications

VerfBlog, 2024/5/14

“?” Jus Cogens (2024), pp 89-108

"", Jus Cogens (2023), pp 125-148.

"" (2023) Nordic Journal of European Law, pp 131-142

"", Jus Cogens (2021), pp 209-228.

(with E Rossi)

(with M Klatt) (Oxford University Press 2019), edited volume with comments and reply by Rainer Forst.

Hart publishing 2019

(with C Gómez-Jara Díez ), "

, (2017) Transnational Legal Theory, pp 79-102

(Hart Publishing 2012)