Supervisors
Main supervisor: Johan Lindholm, professor, Umeå University.
Assistant supervisor: Johan Fahlén, professor, Umeå University.
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PhD project within the Industrial Doctoral School.
Alexander is a doctoral student focusing on sports law. His specializes in critical legal theory, critical theory with a particular interest in Marxian, new materialist and posthumanist legal theory.
The Industrial Doctoral School at Umeå University and the Swedish Sports Confederation is financing the project.
Malin Järf, The Swedish Sports Confederation
The historical development of capitalist society constitutes a permanent catastrophe constantly resulting crises. The overarching plan for the project is to investigate the role the transnational legal regime of sport, also known as lex sportiva, and its form plays in this development. The project investigates the emergence of form lex sportiva from Marxist and new materialist/posthumanist perspectives.
Main supervisor: Johan Lindholm, professor, Umeå University.
Assistant supervisor: Johan Fahlén, professor, Umeå University.