I am professor of human rights studies, with an academic background in philosophy. My PhD and docentur is in practical philosophy. I also have a law degree.

My research is in political philosophy and its early modern history, with emphasis on freedom, equality, and rights. I am interested in how norms figure in institutions and societal change, and that works as a reason for me to engage in interdisciplinary research on human rights. Developing methods for integrating philosophy with empirical data is part of that interest.

My ongoing research is on human rights and socioeconomic inequality, particularly in relation to the digitisation of society. In the project Cash, my colleague Moa Petersén and I study how the transition towards a cashless, digital economy affects socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. I am also part of the interdisciplinary project DigiJustice at the Pufendorf institute, where we explore how digitisation and AI affect human rights, for instance by introducing new and unforeseen threats.

I have done work on the 18th-century feminist and enlightenment philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft for many years, focusing on her political theory and radical critique of societal hierarchies. My article The Primacy of Right. On the Triad of Liberty, Equality and Virtue in Wollstonecraft's Political Thought is the most cited article of all time in British Journal for the History of Philosophy. My book Mary Wollstonecraft and Feminist Republicanism. Independence, Rights and the Experience of Unfreedom – was published by Pickering & Chatto, London, in 2015. A Swedish translation – Mary Wollstonecraft, feminismen och frihetens förutsättningar – was published by Thales in 2016.

I am coordinator of Lund University's Human Rights Profile Area, a university wide initiative to promote interdisciplinary research, education, and collaboration in human rights. 

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