Dr. Anna Jonsson

Visiting and Associated Fellows - Associated Fellows

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Anna Jonsson is an Associated Fellow at the Institute for Security and Development Policy. She is also an Associate Professor in Constitutional Law at the Law Faculty at Uppsala University, holding a position as Senior Lecturer in Comparative Constitutional Law.

Her main areas of expertise are constitutional law, state building processes, rule of law, human rights protection, and organized crime and human trafficking. She is the editor ofHuman Trafficking and Human Security, published by Routledge in 2009. She has written numerous articles and research reports on the Russian legal system, human trafficking, transnational organized crime, migration and access to justice. Jonsson occasionally publishes op-eds and is interviewed by Swedish TV and radio, commenting on developments in Russia. She has previously served as a senior advisor on international development cooperation at the Swedish National Police Board, and as associate senior lecturer at Örebro University.

Jonsson holds an LL.D. in Constitutional Law from Uppsala University. Her dissertation examined judicial protection of individual rights and individual judicial activism in Russia, with a focus on the impact of the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights on access to justice and individual legal activism in Russia. She also holds a postgraduate degree in East European Studies from Uppsala University and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from Lund University. She has also studied international law at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

Currently Jonsson teaches Constitutional and European Law at Uppsala University. She has taught courses on European Law and Democracy and Rule of Law at Örebro University. She has also taught postgraduate and undergraduate courses on Russian and comparative constitutional law and democratic transformation in Eastern Europe at Uppsala University, at the Riga Graduate School of Law, Latvia, at the Swedish Police Academy, and the Stockholm, Gotland and Kalmar universities in Sweden. She has been a Visiting Researcher at American University's Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center and its Washington College of Law, and at the Institute of State and Law at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. She speaks Swedish, English, Russian, French, and some German.