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Johan Lindholm

I research and teach Constitutional Law and Sports Law with a particular interest in courts and judicial poltics and the use of empirical methods in legal research.

Contact

E-mail
johan.lindholm@umu.se
Phone
+46 90 7865603

Works at

Affiliation
Professor at Department of Law
Location
Samhällsvetarhuset, Plan 5, Umeå universitet Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

For more information, see my CV, my page on LinkedIn, or follow me on Twitter (@jlindholm).

General principles: taking rights seriously and waving the rule-of-law stick in the European Union
Research handbook on general principles in EU law: constructing legal orders in Europe, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing 2022 : 308-326
Groussot, Xavier; Lindholm, Johan
How Russia's invasion of Ukraine shook sports' foundation
International Sports Law Journal
Lindholm, Johan
Grundläggande EU-rätt
Stockholm: Liber 2021
Derlén, Mattias; Ingmanson, Staffan; Lindholm, Johan
Idrottslig bolagisering från ett good governance-perspektiv
Idrottens riskzoner: om vägar till trygg och trovärdig idrott, Stockholm: Centrum för idrottsforskning 2021 : 189-207
Lindholm, Johan
A legit supreme court of world sports?: The CAS(e) for reform
The International Sports Law Journal, Berlin: Springer Berlin/Heidelberg 2021, Vol. 21, (1-2) : 1-5
Lindholm, Johan
A global take on legal aspects of fantasy sports
International Sports Law Journal, Springer 2021, Vol. 21, (3) : 119-120
Lindholm, Johan
O wild West Wind: What can a student-athlete named Alston teach global sports law?
The International Sports Law Journal, Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2021, Vol. 21, (4) : 203-205
Lindholm, Johan
När idrottens och samhällets normsystem kolliderar
Idrottens riskzoner: om vägar till trygg och trovärdig idrott, 2021: Centrum för idrottsforskning 2021 : 49-86
Norberg, Johan R.; Lindholm, Johan
Att bli jurist: råd för att lyckas och trivas på juristutbildningen
Vänbok till Ulf Israelsson, Umeå: Juridiska institutionen, Umeå universitet 2020 : 25-41
Derlén, Mattias; Leidö, Jan; Lindholm, Johan
Konstitutionell rätt
Institutet för Rättsvetenskaplig Forskning, CCXI
Derlén, Mattias; Lindholm, Johan; Naarttijärvi, Markus
The impact of Covid-19 on sports: a mid-way assessment
International Sports Law Journal, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg 2020, Vol. 20, (3-4) : 115-119
Garcia-Garcia, Borja; James, Mark; Koller, Dionne; et al.
When sports is the most important utterly non‐important thing in the world
The International Sports Law Journal, Berlin: Springer 2020, Vol. 20 : 1-2
Lindholm, Johan
The court of arbitration for sport and the Nordics
Urheilu ja oikeus (Finnish Yearbook of Sports Law) 2019, Vaasa: Urheiluoikeuden yhdistys 2020 : 109-127
Lindholm, Johan
What Is Global Sports Law? The View from the Twittersphere
Journal of Digital Social Research (JDSR), DIGSUM – The Centre for Digital Social Research at Umeå University 2020, Vol. 2, (2) : 48-72
Lindholm, Johan
Horizontal direct effect of Union citizenship and the evolving sporting exception: TopFit
Common market law review, Kluwer Law International 2020, Vol. 57, (4) : 1283-1304
Lindholm, Johan; Parrish, Richard
What happened to the revolution?: one decade with Trailers and MEQRs
Festskrift till Örjan Edström, Umeå: Department of Law, Umeå University 2019 : 91-108
Derlén, Mattias; Lindholm, Johan
Perspektiv på prejudikat: En empirisk undersökning av tingsrätternas bruk av Högsta domstolens rättspraxis i tvistemål
Svensk Juristtidning, Stockholm: 2019, (8) : 751-772
Derlén, Mattias; Lindholm, Johan
You’re Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone!: The Impact of Brexit on Member States’ Contribution to the Case Law of the CJEU
Europarättslig tidskrift, Stockholm: Europarättslig Tidskrift 2019, (3) : 381-395
Derlén, Mattias; Lindholm, Johan; Naurin, Daniel
The Netflix‑ication of sports broadcasting
The International Sports Law Journal, Springer 2019, Vol. 18, (3–4) : 99-101
Lindholm, Johan
The Second Annual International Sports Law Journal Conference
International Sports Law Journal, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg 2019, Vol. 19, (1-2) : 1-1
Lindholm, Johan
The court of arbitration for sport and its jurisprudence: an empirical inquiry into lex sportiva
ASSER International Sports Law Series
Lindholm, Johan
Who Tweets about Sports Law?
The International Sports Law Journal, Springer 2019, Vol. 19, (3-4) : 129-132
Lindholm, Johan
Court of Arbitration for Sport: En framgångsrik trettiofemåring med begynnande medelålderskris?
Juridisk Tidskrift, Stockholm: Jure 2019, Vol. 2019/20, (2) : 482-492
Lindholm, Johan
Promoting and Supporting Good Governance in the European Football Agents Industry
Zagreb: European Commission 2019
Parrish, Richard; Cattaneo, Andrea; Lindholm, Johan; et al.
Serving two masters: CJEU case law in Swedish first instance courts and national courts of precedent as gatekeepers
The Court of Justice of the European Union: multidisciplinary perspectives, Oxford: Hart Publishing Ltd 2018 : 79-99
Derlén, Mattias; Lindholm, Johan
The Court of Justice of the European Union: multidisciplinary perspectives
Swedish Studies in European Law, 10
The First Annual International Sports Law Journal conference
International sports law journal, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg 2018, Vol. 17, (3-4) : 117-118
Lindholm, Johan
End of cash‐for‐player transfers in football?
The International Sports Law Journal, The Hague: Springer 2018, Vol. 18, (1-2) : 1-2
Lindholm, Johan
EU-rättens framtid som rättsvetenskaplig disciplin: början på slutet eller slutet på början?
Jubileumsskrift till Juridiska institutionen 40 år, Umeå: Umeå universitet 2017 : 79-88
Derlén, Mattias; Lindholm, Johan
Från Champagne till Ramlösa: EU-domstolens rättspraxis i svenska underinstanser
Europarättslig tidskrift, Stockholm: Europarättslig tidskrift 2017, (4) : 695-716
Derlén, Mattias; Lindholm, Johan
Is it good law?: network analysis and the CJEU's internal market jurisprudence
Journal of international economic law (Oxford), Oxford University Press 2017, Vol. 20, (2) : 257-277
Derlén, Mattias; Lindholm, Johan
Peek-A-Boo, It’s a Case Law System!: Comparing the European Court of Justice and the United States Supreme Court from a Network Perspective
German Law Journal, Vol. 18, (3) : 647-686
Derlén, Mattias; Lindholm, Johan
Jubileumsskrift till Juridiska institutionen 40 år
Skrifter från Juridiska institutionen vid Umeå universitet, 38
Speaking law to power: the strategic use of precedent of the court of justice of the European Union
Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 50, (7) : 879-907
Larsson, Olof; Naurin, Daniel; Derlén, Mattias; et al.
From Carlos to Kaepernick and beyond: athletes' right to freedom of expression
The International Sports Law Journal, Springer 2017, Vol. 17, (1–2) : 1-3
Lindholm, Johan
International Sports Law Journal (2016) 16:3-4
International sports law journal, SPRINGER HEIDELBERG 2017, Vol. 16, (3-4) : 129-130
Lindholm, Johan
Bra medicin smakar beskt: CAS 2017/A/5015 och 5110, FIS mot Johaug
Artikelsamling 2017, Stockholm: Svensk idrottsjuridisk förening 2017 : 79-93
Lindholm, Johan
Judiciell aktivism eller prejudikatbildning?: en empirisk granskning av Högsta domstolen
Svensk Juristtidning, (2) : 143-158
Derlén, Mattias; Lindholm, Johan
Bosman som spindeln i nätet: Bosmans betydelse bortom idrott
Europarättslig tidskrift, Vol. 19, (4) : 685-702
Derlén, Mattias; Lindholm, Johan
Introduction: Europarättsdagarna 2015
Europarättslig tidskrift, Vol. 19, (4) : 667-668
Derlén, Mattias; Lindholm, Johan
Bosman: a legacy beyond sports
The legacy of Bosman: revisiting the relationship between EU law and sport, Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press 2016 : 31-49
Derlén, Mattias; Lindholm, Johan
Konstitutionell rätt
Institutet För Rättsvetenskaplig Forskning, 211
Derlén, Mattias; Lindholm, Johan; Markus, Naarttijärvi
Can I Please Have a Slice of Ronaldo?: The Legality of FIFA's ban on Third-Party Ownership under European Union Law
The International Sports Law Journal, Springer 2016, Vol. 15, (3-4) : 137-148
Lindholm, Johan
Pechstein: från Lausanne till Strasbourg
Artikelsamling 2016, Stockholm: Svensk idrottsjuridisk förening 2016 : 105-121
Lindholm, Johan
Grundläggande EU-rätt
Stockholm: Liber 2015
Derlén, Mattias; Ingmanson, Staffan; Lindholm, Johan
Characteristics of Precedent: The Case Law of the European Court of Justice in Three Dimensions
German Law Journal, Vol. 16, (5) : 1073-1098
Derlén, Mattias; Lindholm, Johan
Kommersiell exploatering av idrottslig verksamhet ur ett konkurrensrättsligt perspektiv
Konkurrensverket uppdragsforskningsrapport, 2015:5
Lindholm, Johan
Jag lärde mig ingen EU-rätt på högstadiet
Europarättslig tidskrift, (1) : 61-63
Lindholm, Johan
Festina lente – Europarättens genomslag i svensk rättspraxis 1995–2015
Europarättslig tidskrift, (1) : 151-177
Lindholm, Johan; Derlén, Mattias
Goodbye van Gend en Loos, Hello Bosman?: Using Network Analysis to Measure the Importance of Individual CJEU Judgments
European Law Journal, Oxford: John Wiley & Sons 2014, Vol. 20, (5) : 667-687
Derlén, Mattias; Lindholm, Johan
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Research groups

Group member
AI and society
Digital Law

Research projects

1 September 2020 until 1 March 2025
Legal framework for sporting solutions to the challenges of commercialization
1 January 2019 until 31 December 2022
Judicial Power and Power over the Judiciary: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Shifting Role of Judges
1 January 2015 until 31 December 2015
CAS and its case law
1 January 2012 until 31 December 2014
The European Court of Justice ́s case law and its importance as a source of law
1 January 2009 until 31 December 2012
Doping, An Issue for the Legislator?