Anna Zemskova is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Law, Lund University. Her research focuses on EU constitutional law, public law, and environmental law, with a particular emphasis on water governance.

She is currently part of the interdisciplinary LU4Water project, which aims to strengthen knowledge and collaboration on water governance, water law, and sustainable water management in Sweden and beyond. Within this project, Anna examines the EU and Swedish water acquis to identify legal tools that enable the use of financial measures to improve water quantity and quality. Her work includes analysing the implementation of EU law in Sweden, identifying regulatory gaps and inconsistencies, and exploring reforms to the role of Water Authorities in permitting and regulating water use. This includes, for example, assessing legal mechanisms for restricting or prohibiting activities such as irrigation when required.

Previously, Anna was a postdoctoral researcher in a project funded by the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, where she studied constitutional safeguards and emergency legal frameworks in the Nordic countries in response to the COVID‑19 pandemic. The project explored how legal systems can respond effectively to crises while upholding the rule of law.

Anna defended her doctoral thesis in April 2023. Her dissertation, The Rule of Law in Economic Emergency in the European Union, examines adherence to the principle of the rule of law in the context of economic emergency in the European Union.

Anna is a recipient of several academic awards, including Elsa Eschelsson’s scholarship and multiple grants from the Rune and Lena Lavin Foundation. In 2023, she received the prize for her doctoral dissertation from the Royal Society of Letters at Lund (Vetenskapssocieteten i Lund).

Anna has completed the teaching qualification courses Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Course Design in Higher Education, and Doctoral Supervision at the Division for Higher Education Development at Lund University. She has also completed pedagogical courses in Open Network Learning, offered by Karlstad University, Linköping University, Lund University, the Careum Foundation (Switzerland), and Arcada University of Applied Sciences (Finland), as well as the course Higher Education Didactics for Sustainability, provided by Mid Sweden University, Karlstad University (KAU), Linköping University (LiU), Mälardalen University (MDU), Lund University (LU), and Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences (INN).

She has been involved in teaching several courses across different levels of higher education, including EU Law, Essay in Legal Science, and Graduate Thesis within the Swedish law programme; Enforcement of EU Law (advanced level); Business Negotiations; EU Constitutional Law; Argumentation and Methodology; Internal Market Law; Maritime and Transportation Law; European Law Moot Court Competition; EU Financial Law and Governance in the European Business Law Master’s Programme; as well as Water and Sustainability (third‑cycle course).

Anna is also part of the team designing the professional development summer course International Law with Law Didactics.

Anna is part of the EU law research environment and was a member of the Organizing Team of the EU Law Discussion Group, sponsored by the Centre for European Studies at Lund University, from September 2017 to March 2024.

She is also a co‑convenor of the workshop series CONNOR 2030 – Constitutionalism in the Nordics.

Since 2022, Anna has been an invited member of the EU Law Live Analysts Network.

She served as one of the judges at the Lund Regional Final of the 2022/2023 edition of the European Law Moot Court.

Anna is furthermore an external member of the TransformEU project (The Transformation of EU Law through EU Courts: Strategies to Face the Challenges to Primacy, Fundamental Rights and EU Values, PID2023‑148537NB‑I00), conducted at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain.

Anna actively disseminates her research beyond academia. She has presented her work in public lectures, panel discussions, and media formats, including Lund University’s Future Week and the educational platform UR Play.

Anna contributes to public debate on EU law through podcasts, popular science publications, and expert commentary, addressing topics such as the rule of law, crisis governance, and European integration.