Monitoring as Fact and Norm

The economist sees a mechanism, the lawyer a fiduciary — the same person, the same boardroom. On what happens when the model's given facts meet a legal order that refuses to take anything for granted.

Lawyer Fatigue

Forcing a company into bankruptcy to get hold of its patents – entirely feasible under the current law. But where does the advocate's limit lie when every rule is followed and everything still goes wrong?

The Potential Extension of the Three-Party Perspective - Legal Brain Gymnastics

Here, a seemingly technical problem of property law is used as a springboard for a more conceptual discussion of risk, control and priority. The text is of interest to anyone who wants to see how law-and-economics and systematic considerations can challenge established structures – not by offering ready-made answers, but by showing where the friction lies.

The Concept of Ownership - The Scandinavian way of thinking

This is a text that deals not only with ownership, but with how one thinks about law at all. By setting Scandinavian functionalism against continental substantialist thinking, it becomes clear how legal culture shapes problem-solving itself. For anyone who wants to understand why lawyers from different traditions see different "problems" in the same situation, this is a key text.

Swallowed by the Black Hole of Property and Obligations Law

Legal maturity is not about mastering the rules, but about being able to move between levels of analysis. A reflection with condictio indebiti as a mirror.

Sorty - an in-house developed AI tool

Expert Opinion - Avoidance of payment... under a revolving credit?

On how a seemingly neutral security interest is turned into an avoidance risk – and on the art of accounting for uncertainty rather than concealing it.

Artificial intelligence - subject or object?

This text questions the fundamental premise of the AI debate: that we must first determine whether AI is a subject or an object. Through a functionalist analysis, it shows how a focus on the "status" of the technology risks obscuring what is legally decisive – responsibility, control and chains of human action. A critical examination for anyone who wants to understand what is really at stake in AI regulation.

The legal(ish) podcast

Drawing on examples from popular culture, the text problematises the line between inspiration and infringement. It is of interest to anyone who wants to understand why copyright protects expression but leaves the world of ideas free – and how this distinction reflects a deeper view of creativity, culture and the role of law in processes of innovation.

Precedent and Argumentation - an analysis of draft reasons for judgment

This text operates at more of a meta level and examines how legal argumentation is constructed in the reasons for judgment. By analysing underlying value assumptions, it becomes clear that legal language is never entirely neutral. For anyone who wants to understand how the development of the law is actually shaped through argumentation, this is essential reading.

Intellectual Property Law - Legal Investigation

Here, technology, business model and intellectual property law meet in a concrete innovation project. The text shows how legal analysis not only identifies rights but structures the entire scope for action within the project. It is of particular interest to anyone who wants to see how "soft IP", contracts and organisational form interact in early-stage commercialisation.

Who Owns a Discovery?

On how a university can let the same research be both open science and commercial exclusivity at the same time – and why the lawyer who comes in too late costs the most.

When the Lawyer Draws the Product

A single product decision triggers five regulatory frameworks at once, and the most valuable part of a patent licence turns out to be what is not in the patent. On the in-house counsel who no longer reviews the product – but draws it.

Circular Subscriptions

On how a telecoms operator's seemingly neutral cancellation procedures form a systematic obstacle, and what that says about the role of in-house counsel.

Let the Negotiations Begin!

The creditor believes it is secure. The law on avoidance of transactions says otherwise. On how an acute liquidity crisis turns into a negotiating position in which the seemingly weaker party holds the leverage.

Locating the Law

In one room the asset is worthless, in the next invaluable – and both arguments are legally tenable. On the business lawyer's task of asserting rather than establishing.

Löfgren v. Ekström – litigation strategy in an easement dispute

A locked gate on a gravel road in Bohuslän. A landowner shut out of his own land. I take on the role of associate and build a litigation strategy from the ground up – and discover that a single choice of concept can turn the entire dispute.

Company Law - Innovation Company

This is company law seen from the founder's perspective. The text moves between pedagogy and legal systematics and shows how the law on limited companies functions as a tool for structuring responsibility, control and value at an early stage. It is particularly relevant to anyone who wants to reflect on how the law shapes the company's actual balance of power from the very start.

Company Law Argumentation in Practice

This paper turns its attention to the lawyer's language rather than to the rules themselves. By identifying recurring patterns of argumentation, the text shows how company law is shaped in practice – through how we choose to justify, frame and legitimise our positions. It gives the reader tools to see argumentation as method, not merely rhetoric.

Negotiation Technique - A Negotiation Commentary

Here the focus shifts from rules to strategy. The text shows how legal constructs are used tactically in a negotiation in which imbalances of power, risk and control of information are as important as the legal rules themselves. It offers an insight into how law functions as a negotiating tool rather than merely as a system of norms.

Troublesome Women!

On how the long tradition of the legal profession contains a strikingly recent history of who is allowed to practise it.

Real Property Law - from a real property lawyer's perspective

On how the land stays still while the law, politics and the water level shift its value.

The Business Law Firm of the Future

On what happens to the adviser's independence when private equity moves in.

The Protection of Property and Its Lines of Defence - Vinge

On how a constitutional protection may give way – so long as it promises to be temporary.

The Role of In-House Counsel

On how a lawyer is to be independent within an organisation on which she is at the same time dependent.

DD & Data Rooms - Student Event at Vinge

How does an M&A transaction actually work in practice – and what do the materiality thresholds in a due diligence report say about the balance between thoroughness and commercial value? In this reflection on a talk by Johanna Hamrefält and Amelia Rihs, I discuss the different phases of the process, the critical ability to know what you are looking for in a data room, and why a lawyer in a transactional setting needs to understand more than just the law.

Carl Hamsten - PRV

I attended an expert lecture by patent engineer Carl Hamsten of the Swedish Intellectual Property Office (PRV), which focused on how assessments of novelty and inventive step are actually made in practice. In my reflection I discuss what it means to see patent law from the examiner's perspective, and how working with search strategies and the "state of the art" changed my understanding of what legal assessment in technical contexts actually rests on.

Christina Ramberg - Precedent

I attended a lecture by Christina Ramberg on the role of precedent in civil law. In my reflection I consider how her account of the courts' argumentation and the growing importance of precedent gave me tools to read Supreme Court judgments more critically and with greater methodological awareness, and how this has influenced the way I approach legal reasoning.

Germaine Hillerström - Children's contracts for digital services

I attended a seminar on children's contracts for digital services, in which civil law questions were placed in a digital context. In my reflection I discuss how the lecture offered new perspectives on how areas of law interact in practice, and how classic contract law premises are challenged when contracts are concluded through technology and platforms rather than through traditional declarations of intent.