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, interdisciplinary research on human rights, and early modern history of political thought, with emphasis on freedom, equality, and rights.

My interdisciplinary work on human rights is prompted by an interest in how norms that affect peoples' lives – particulary people in precarious and disadvanted circumstances – are shaped and shape institutions and societal change. 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 a new project – The Future of Human Rights in the Digitised Age (FRIDA), funded by the Swedish Research Councile – my colleages Moa Petersén, Karin Zackari, and I will investigate rights subjectivity in the digitised society. In the project Cash, my colleague Moa Petersén and I have studied how the transition towards a cashless, digital economy affects socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. The interdisciplinary group DigiJustice at the Pufendorf institute, explores 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 one of the editors of a new edition of Wollstonecraft's collected works, to be published by Oxford University Press.

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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