Leila Brännström
Biographic Data
| ID | 3600197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leila Brännström |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leila |
| FAMILY NAME | Brännström |
| SIGNATURE | BRÄNNSTRÖM L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5127-2717 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Legal imagination and the US project of globalising the free flow of data
Today, the US pursues the global capture of data (understood as a significant engine of growth) by way of bi- and plurilateral trade agreements. However, the project of securing the global free flow of data has been pursued ever since the dawn of digital telecommunication in the 1960s and the US has made significant legal efforts to institutionalise it. These efforts have two phases: In the first 1970s and 80s “freedom of information” phase, the …
Images of the North
This chapter highlights the diversity of ideas developed and relationships formed during some crucial decades of the Cold War. In the 1960s and 1970s, Sweden embarked on a project of extending welfare capitalism into the post-colonial world. This small country in Europe’s northern periphery saw newly independent states as non-aligned partners in the Cold War. Sweden’s social democratic vision for itself and the Third World was also met with some …
Legal Tech, the Law Firm and the Imagination of the Right Legal Answer
Legal tech is growing, and its growth provokes anxieties about the future of the legal profession as such. In this article, we examine the impact of legal tech on the central role of lawyers at law firms in crafting an imagined ‘right legal answer’ by drawing on Duncan Kennedy’s suggestion that a claim to the rightness of one’s legal propositions is a central characteristic of the legal profession. We first ask how changes in the organisation of …
Introduction
Law’s Comprehensiveness and Sovereign Leadership
This essay takes its point of departure in a letter written by Ayatollah Khomeini suggesting that sovereign authority is a matter of “absolute divine guardianship” and that the state “may suspend any matter ... when it contravenes the best interests of Islam for the duration that it is so.” Khomeini's insistence that the Islamic state headed by a Guardian Jurist is authorized to suspend normally valid law if need be, brings to mind Carl Schmitt’s…
Swedish Foreign Policy Feminisms
This article outlines the historical distinctiveness of the feminist foreign policy (FFP) Sweden has pursued since 2014. To highlight the particularity of the current FFP, we make use of two methodological moves: de-framing and counterpoint. De-framing helps us highlight the importance for the current FFP of a moment in the beginning of the 1990s, when a feminism naturalising capitalist arrangements came to ascendency both transnationally and in …
Constituent Power
Analyses the political and legal power of ‘the people’ in contemporary democratic societies Presents interdisciplinary perspectives from legal theory, political theory, and the history of ideas Brings together an international range of contributors from Europe, North America and Latin America Provides in-depth analyses of contemporary problems that afflict constitutional democracies globally Includes a lead essay by Benjamin Arditi, a leading glo…
Constituent Power
Recent social and political developments, including the presidential elections in the United States, antidemocratic state policies in Hungary and Poland, and the political climate in the rest of Europe have brought questions relating to the position and composition of ‘the people’ in constitutional democracies to the forefront. This book confronts these questions head on as leading scholars across the fields of law, legal theory, political theory…
The Terms of Ethnoracial Equality
This article initially accounts for the discussions concerning the notions ‘ethnic origin’ and ‘race’ that have taken place in the Swedish legislative context and places these within a wider European context. Next follows a mapping of the ways in which Swedish courts, in cases of alleged ethnic discrimination, read the notion of ‘ethnic affiliation’ – defined as ‘national or ethnic origin, skin colour, or other similar circumstance’ – and decide …
The Contemporary Relevance of Carl Schmitt
What does Carl Schmitt have to offer to ongoing debates about sovereignty, globalization, spatiality, the nature of the political, and political theology? Can Schmitt’s positions and concepts offer insights that might help us understand our concrete present-day situation? Works on Schmitt usually limit themselves to historically isolating Schmitt into his Weimar or post-Weimar context, to reading him together with classics of political and legal …
Contemporary Relevance of Carl Schmitt
Law, Objectives of Government, and Regimes of Truth
Drawing on Security, Territory, Population and The Birth of Biopolitics, this article aims, firstly, to consolidate our understanding of Foucault’s engagement with law by fleshing out his approach to law and by clarifying that he distinguishes between different kinds of law on the basis of the objectives that law serves and the regime of truth that it embodies. Secondly, using this understanding, the article proceeds to illustrate how the objecti…
Foreward
Swedish Foreign Policy Feminisms
This article outlines the historical distinctiveness of the feminist foreign policy (FFP) Sweden has pursued since 2014. To highlight the particularity of the current FFP, we make use of two methodological moves: de-framing and counterpoint. De-framing helps us highlight the importance for the current FFP of a moment in the beginning of the 1990s, when a feminism naturalising capitalist arrangements came to ascendency both transnationally and in …
The Terms of Ethnoracial Equality
This article initially accounts for the discussions concerning the notions ‘ethnic origin’ and ‘race’ that have taken place in the Swedish legislative context and places these within a wider European context. Next follows a mapping of the ways in which Swedish courts, in cases of alleged ethnic discrimination, read the notion of ‘ethnic affiliation’ – defined as ‘national or ethnic origin, skin colour, or other similar circumstance’ – and decide …
Law’s Comprehensiveness and Sovereign Leadership
This essay takes its point of departure in a letter written by Ayatollah Khomeini suggesting that sovereign authority is a matter of “absolute divine guardianship” and that the state “may suspend any matter ... when it contravenes the best interests of Islam for the duration that it is so.” Khomeini's insistence that the Islamic state headed by a Guardian Jurist is authorized to suspend normally valid law if need be, brings to mind Carl Schmitt’s…
Law, Objectives of Government, and Regimes of Truth
Drawing on Security, Territory, Population and The Birth of Biopolitics, this article aims, firstly, to consolidate our understanding of Foucault’s engagement with law by fleshing out his approach to law and by clarifying that he distinguishes between different kinds of law on the basis of the objectives that law serves and the regime of truth that it embodies. Secondly, using this understanding, the article proceeds to illustrate how the objecti…
Foreward
Law, Objectives of Government, and Regimes of Truth
Drawing on Security, Territory, Population and The Birth of Biopolitics, this article aims, firstly, to consolidate our understanding of Foucault’s engagement with law by fleshing out his approach to law and by clarifying that he distinguishes between different kinds of law on the basis of the objectives that law serves and the regime of truth that it embodies. Secondly, using this understanding, the article proceeds to illustrate how the objecti…
The Contemporary Relevance of Carl Schmitt
What does Carl Schmitt have to offer to ongoing debates about sovereignty, globalization, spatiality, the nature of the political, and political theology? Can Schmitt’s positions and concepts offer insights that might help us understand our concrete present-day situation? Works on Schmitt usually limit themselves to historically isolating Schmitt into his Weimar or post-Weimar context, to reading him together with classics of political and legal …
Contemporary Relevance of Carl Schmitt
The Terms of Ethnoracial Equality
This article initially accounts for the discussions concerning the notions ‘ethnic origin’ and ‘race’ that have taken place in the Swedish legislative context and places these within a wider European context. Next follows a mapping of the ways in which Swedish courts, in cases of alleged ethnic discrimination, read the notion of ‘ethnic affiliation’ – defined as ‘national or ethnic origin, skin colour, or other similar circumstance’ – and decide …
Constituent Power
Analyses the political and legal power of ‘the people’ in contemporary democratic societies Presents interdisciplinary perspectives from legal theory, political theory, and the history of ideas Brings together an international range of contributors from Europe, North America and Latin America Provides in-depth analyses of contemporary problems that afflict constitutional democracies globally Includes a lead essay by Benjamin Arditi, a leading glo…
Constituent Power
Recent social and political developments, including the presidential elections in the United States, antidemocratic state policies in Hungary and Poland, and the political climate in the rest of Europe have brought questions relating to the position and composition of ‘the people’ in constitutional democracies to the forefront. This book confronts these questions head on as leading scholars across the fields of law, legal theory, political theory…
Law’s Comprehensiveness and Sovereign Leadership
This essay takes its point of departure in a letter written by Ayatollah Khomeini suggesting that sovereign authority is a matter of “absolute divine guardianship” and that the state “may suspend any matter ... when it contravenes the best interests of Islam for the duration that it is so.” Khomeini's insistence that the Islamic state headed by a Guardian Jurist is authorized to suspend normally valid law if need be, brings to mind Carl Schmitt’s…
Swedish Foreign Policy Feminisms
This article outlines the historical distinctiveness of the feminist foreign policy (FFP) Sweden has pursued since 2014. To highlight the particularity of the current FFP, we make use of two methodological moves: de-framing and counterpoint. De-framing helps us highlight the importance for the current FFP of a moment in the beginning of the 1990s, when a feminism naturalising capitalist arrangements came to ascendency both transnationally and in …
Images of the North
This chapter highlights the diversity of ideas developed and relationships formed during some crucial decades of the Cold War. In the 1960s and 1970s, Sweden embarked on a project of extending welfare capitalism into the post-colonial world. This small country in Europe’s northern periphery saw newly independent states as non-aligned partners in the Cold War. Sweden’s social democratic vision for itself and the Third World was also met with some …
Legal Tech, the Law Firm and the Imagination of the Right Legal Answer
Legal tech is growing, and its growth provokes anxieties about the future of the legal profession as such. In this article, we examine the impact of legal tech on the central role of lawyers at law firms in crafting an imagined ‘right legal answer’ by drawing on Duncan Kennedy’s suggestion that a claim to the rightness of one’s legal propositions is a central characteristic of the legal profession. We first ask how changes in the organisation of …
Introduction
Legal imagination and the US project of globalising the free flow of data
Today, the US pursues the global capture of data (understood as a significant engine of growth) by way of bi- and plurilateral trade agreements. However, the project of securing the global free flow of data has been pursued ever since the dawn of digital telecommunication in the 1960s and the US has made significant legal efforts to institutionalise it. These efforts have two phases: In the first 1970s and 80s “freedom of information” phase, the …
Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy (4 works) · Political Theology and Sovereignty (4 works) · Capitalism (3 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works)