My research and teaching are mainly within criminal procedure and criminal justice, with particular focus on the legal responsibilities and powers of police officers and prosecutors.
Background
LL.M. 1990, LL.D. 2011. I have been working at the Department of Law since 2001. Previously I worked in the Swedish courts system, completed the Swedish education training for judges (appointed associate judge 1997), and served as a Swedish prosecutor (1999-2001). I am a member of the disciplinary committee at Umeå University.
Research
My research has mainly been within criminal justice and policing, where I have been particularly interested in the legal responsibilities and powers of Swedish police and prosecutors.
Earlier I have been project leader in a finished research project Policing in Sweden – Efficiency and Rule of Law in Police Work.
My dissertation – The Prosecutor as Gatekeeper – was about the Swedish prosecutor’s powers to decide which criminal cases ought (or ought not) be investigated, prosecuted, and tried in court. Specifically I studied the legal regulation of issues of prosecution and the duty to investigate.
I teach criminal procedure within Umeå University’s law program, and within courses for police students and police officerst. In addition I supervise master’s thesis projects and other individual written work for law students and police students. I also serve as an advisor to doctoral students in law.