Laura Carlson

Laura Carlson is a professor of private law at Stockholm University. Carlson specializes in employment and labor law, gender, discrimination, academic freedom and critical legal theories. She is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford. Carlson is the Editor-in-Chief, Brill Research Perspectives in Comparative Discrimination Law, co-editor of the peer-reviewed International Journal of Discrimination and the Law and a board member of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law. Carlson’s books include volume editor for Scandinavian Studies in Law: Vol. 68 Equality (2022), The Fundamentals of Swedish Law (2019), Workers, Collectivism and the Law: Grappling with Democracy (2018), Comparative Discrimination Law: Historical and Theoretical Frameworks, Brill (2017) and Searching for Equality: Sex Discrimination, Parental Leave and the Swedish Model with Comparisons to EU, UK and US law (2007). Carlson is also President of the European Women Lawyers Association.