Academic

Graduated as PhD at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway (Tromso) in 2010 and qualified as Professor at the same institution in 2016.

Has published extensively on indigenous peoples’ rights and Sámi rights. Highlighted may be:

Monography

Indigenous Peoples’ Status in the International Legal System (OUP, 2016)

Edited works

Oxford Bibliographies in Legal History (OUP, 2025), Area Editor, Law and Indigenous Peoples (forthcoming)

Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Peoples in International Law (OUP, 2024) (with Claire Charters, Jessie Hohmann and Lucas Lixinski)

Articles

‘Equal Rights of Peoples and Indigenous Peoples’, in Mattias Åhrén et al (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Peoples in International Law (OUP, 2025)

"En alternativ metod för att avgöra om historiskt samiskt bruk av land etablerat rätt”, in Markus Hoel Lie et al (eds), Vidsyn og skjönn: Festskrift til Jens Edvin A. Skoghöy (Universitetsforlaget, 2025),

‘Indigenous resource rights at their core (and what these are not)’, in Dwight Newman (ed.), Research Handbook on the International Law of Indigenous Rights (Edward Elgar, 2022) (argues that there is no such thing as a right to free, prior and informed consent, or “FPIC”)

’Indigenousness as a Protected Ground of Discrimination’, in Laura Carlson (vol. ed.) and Lydia Lundstedt (gen. red.), Equality, Scandinavian Studies in Law, Volume 68 (2022), and

‘Relationships to Human Rights, and Related International Instruments’, in Jessie Hohmann and Marc Weller (eds.), The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – A Commentary  (OUP, 2018) (with Professor Martin Scheinin)

Research takes particular interest in the rights to equality, justice/equitability and non-discrimination, as well as in all peoples’ right to self-determination

Work experiences etc. (within the area indigenous peoples’ and Sámi rights) includes:

Expert witness in the precedential Fosen case (ruling by the Norwegian Supreme Court in 2001); in the same case, acted as counsel for the impacted Sámi reindeer herding community before the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

Elaborated an Action Plan and impact assessment for an implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the County of Jämtland/Härjedalen (2020-2021)

Initiated (in 1998), architected, actively engaged, and appeared as an expert witness in the seminal Girjas case (ruling by the Swedish Supreme Court in 2020)

Counsel for Vapsten Sámi reindeer herding community before CERD in the internationally acclaimed Rönnbäcken (Lars-Anders Ågren et al v. Sweden) case (2020); CERD held that Sweden breached the reindeer herding community’s right to property, understood in light of the right to non-discrimination, when allowing the establishment of a mining complex on the community’s reindeer pasture land; added obiter dicta that the breach was a result of systematic discrimination of the Sámi in Swedish legislation and called on Sweden to amend its law to avoid continuous discrimination

Actively engaged in the negotiations on the Outcome Document which was adopted by the so called UN World Conference on Indigenous Peoples (2014)

Leading role in the negotiations that resulted in the adoption by the UN General Assembly of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007)

Advisor to the two first chairpersons of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; in this capacity contributed to establishing that institution within the UN system and to it finding its basic organization and work methods (2002-2007)

Member of the Expert Group which elaborated the proposed Nordic Sámi Convention (2005)

Swedish lasso throwing champion (1987)