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.
2017 AcademiaNet Excellent Woman Academic