Nordic Equality and Anti-Discrimination Laws in the Throes of Change: Legal developments in Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Iceland

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Anne Hellum is professor emerita at the Department of Public and International Law within the Faculty of Law of the University of Oslo Norway. She was the director of the Institute of Womens Law Child Law Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law from 2000 to 2023 and the director of the faculty research group Rights Individuals Culture and Society (RICS) from 2006 to 2016. She teaches courses on womens human rights in context national and international equality and anti-discrimination law and legal anthropology. Her main research interests lie in how law responds to intersecting identities such as gender ethnicity religion sexual orientation and gender identity and the plurality of intersecting international national and local norms. She has published a series of books articles and book chapters on these topics. She is the co-editor (with Henriette Sinding Aasen) of Womens Human Rights: CEDAW in International Regional and National Law (Cambridge University Press 2013) the editor of Human Rights Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (Routledge 2017) and the co-author (with Vibeke Blaker Strand) of the textbook Likestillings- og diskrimineringsrett Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law (Gyldendal 2022).Ingunn Ikdahl is a professor at the Department of Public and International Law within the Faculty of Law of the University of Oslo Norway. She chaired the facultys research group Welfare Rights and Discrimination (VERDI) in 2017022. Ikdahl has worked on womens law non-discrimination and rights to property and natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa. Currently she is involved in research projects examining different dimensions of the Norwegian welfare state including digitalization of the welfare state welfare and rights after the 22 July terror attack health rights and health services in prison and the role of EEA law in Norwegian welfare administration. Her interest in gender perspectives interdisciplinarity legal pluralism and legal theory cuts across these projects. Her publications include Kjønn og rett: Kvinne- kjønns- og likestillingsperspektiver i jusstudiet Gender and Law: Womens Gender and Gender Equality Perspectives in Legal Education (co-edited with Anne Hellum and others; Cappelen Damm 2022); Om kvinnerett og kjønsperspektiv On Womens Law and Gender Perspectives in A. P. Høberg and J. Ø Sunde (eds) Juridisk metode og tenkemåte Legal Methods and Legal Thinking (Universitetsforlaget 2019); and Rettigheter i velferdsstaten: Begreper trender teorier Rights in the Welfare State: Concepts Trends Theories (co-edited with Vibeke Blaker Strand; Gyldendal 2016).Vibeke Blaker Strand is a professor at the Department of Public and International Law within the Faculty of Law of the University of Oslo Norway. She is the elected vice-dean for research at the Faculty of Law for 20202023. Since 2022 she has been the chair of the Faculty of Laws Board for Equality and Diversity. In 2017020 she was the leader of the facultys research group on Welfare Rights and Discrimination (VERDI). She has been teaching on the topic of equality and non-discrimination law for almost two decades. Her research interests are connected to individual and group rights discrimination equality diversity and freedom of religion and belief. She is interested in legal methodology the implementation and application of European and international legal sources within Norwegian law (EU/EEA law the European Convention on Human Rights and UN human rights conventions) and how the different legal regimes interact. She has several publications within these fields including Diskrimineringsvern og religionsutøvelse Non-Discrimination and Religious Practice (Gyldendal 2012); Rettigheter i velferdsstaten: Begreper trender teorier Rights in the Welfare State: Concepts Trends Theories (co-edited with Ingunn Ikdahl; Gyldendal 2016); Menneskerettigheter i et nøtteskall Human Rights in a Nutshell (co-authored with Kjetil Mujezinovi Larsen; 2nd edn Gyldendal 2021); and Likestillingsog diskrimineringsrett Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law (co-authored with Anne Hellum; Gyldendal 2022).Eva-Maria Svensson is a professor at the Department of Law within the School of Business Economics and Law of the University of Gothenburg Sweden. She was the director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Research at the University of Gothenburg between 2012 and 2017 and deputy head of the Department of Law between 2018 and 2021. Her research interests are feminist legal studies legal philosophy and theory freedom of expression and ageing. She teaches equality and anti-discrimination law and legal theory. She is a co-editor of several books published by Ashgate that bring together feminist legal scholars from the Nordic countries along with special issues published in the Nordic Journal of Law and Society. She is the co-author (with Åsa Gunnarsson) of the textbooks Rättsdogmatik Legal Dogmatics (Studentlitteratur 2023) and Genusrättsvetenskap Gender Legal Studies (Studentlitteratur 2009). A second edition of the latter with two additional authors (Jannice Käll and Wanna Svedberg) was published in August 2018.