Research

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Democratic participation, AI and Law in the Human+ Condition, funded by WASP-HS (PI), 2021-2026: https://www.gu.se/handelshogskolan/juridik/democratic-participation-ai-and-law-in-the-human-condition
The Past as Present: Contemporary Legal Fragmentation and The Mission Covenant Church of Sweden as a Rule of Law Actor in Congo 1881–1961, funded by The Swedish Research Council (PI), 2022-2026: https://www.lawhistorykongo.com/
Unpacking the contention between openness and security in the Nordic region: Digital public surveillance practices at three state borders, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, 2022-2026: https://futurenordics.org/projects
Technological opportunities and regulative restrictions – Dilemmas in using AI in law enforcement practices, funded by FORTE, 2025-2028

PUBLICATIONS

2026

M. Arvidsson & K. Tranter (eds.) (2026) The Routledge Handbook on AI, Law and Society. Abingdon: Routledge. Forthcoming.

M. Arvidsson, D. Gandorfer, & D. McQuillan (2026) ‘New Digital Technologies, Law, and a Non-Fascist Life? On Global Governance, Digital Networks, and the Molecular Unconscious’, in G. Sullivan, F. Johns, and D. Van Den Meerssche (eds) Global Governance by Data. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Accepted for Publication. Forthcoming.

M. Arvidsson, T. Otter Johansen & P. Minkkinen (eds) (2026) Law, Cultural Techniques, and Media-Theory. Edinburgh University Press 2026. Accepted. Forthcoming.

M. Arvidsson (2026) ‘Data Shadows, Data Power and Law: Revisiting the Cold War Data Law and Policy in Sweden through Kerstin Anér’s Pioneering Work’, in M. Arvidsson, T. Otter Johansen, and P. Minkkinen (eds) Law, Cultural Techniques, and Media-Theory. EUP. Accepted. Forthcoming.

E. Raviola, B. Rolandsson & M. Arvidsson (eds) (2026) Borders, surveillance and technologies: The Nordics. Bristol University Press. Forthcoming.

E. Raviola, B. Rolandsson & M. Arvidsson (eds) (2026) “Introduction: On Borders, Surveillance and Technology”, in Borders, surveillance and technologies: The Nordics. BUP. Forthcoming.

2025

M. Arvidsson & K. Tranter (eds) Special issue: “Interpellations and Orderings of AI-Human Constructs Symposiums” 7(2) (2025) Law, Technology and Humans. Forthcoming

M. Arvidsson (2025) ‘Jurisprudence of Gardens: International Law, Architecture, and Garden of Multitudes,’ in R. Voss, S. Stolk & M. Bak McKenna (eds) International Law and Architecture. Elgar Publishers. In press. Forthcoming in December 2025.

M. Arvidsson (2025) ‘Are present concerns on Artificial Intelligence really all that new? On Kerstin Anér’s contribution to data law and policy debates during the Cold War and today’, in Transformativa teknologier – en färd mot en imaginär värld. KVVA’s Yearbook. Accepted. Forthcoming.

M. Arvidsson (2025) #MeToo in Academia: Anonymous chapter, in U. Nartarajan (ed.) #MeToo in Academia. Denver: University of Colorado Press. Level 1. In Press. Forthcoming

M. Arvidsson & G. Noll (2025) ‘Carl Schmitt in Russia and China: A Revival for Großraum Analytics in International Law?’, in Liber Amicorum N.N. Forthcoming.

E. Herlin-Karnell & M. Arvidsson (eds) (2025) Animal Law and Jurisprudence: The EU and Beyond. Symposium, Völkerechtblogg. Not ranked. Also available in a separate format as an edited volume (book): E. Herlin-Karnell & M. Arvidsson (eds) (2025) Animal Rights and The Role of the EU Charter. Berlin: Verfassungsbooks.

M. Arvidsson (2025) ‘The Regular Complex and the Advanced Complex: Écriture Feminine as Translation of a Life with Jurisprudence through Coding a Knitting Pattern and then Knitting It‘ In N. Järvinen (ed.) Socio Legio Light: Liber Amicorum for Panu Minkkinen. 99– 120.

Arvidsson & S. Larsson (2025) ‘Fulfilling the Christian Mission Through Law: The Mission Covenant Church of Sweden as a Legal Actor in Congo 1881–1908’, Studia Theologica – Nordic Journal of Theology, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/0039338X.2025.2470720

M. Arvidsson (2025) ‘On Gardens of the Anthropocene: Gendered Violence, Colonial Legal Enclosures, and Feminist Posthuman Kinship’, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment. 16:136–166.

2024

M. Arvidsson (2024) ‘De-Colonial, Intergenerational and Transversal Posthuman Feminist Alliances – Also In, (Be)For(e) and Beyond Feminist Legal Scholarship of the Nordics,’ in Erik Björling, Håkan Gustafsson, Sari Kouvo & Wanna Svedberg Andersson (eds) Festskrift till Eva-Maria Svensson. Iustus Förlag, 39–56.

A. Akhtar-Khavari, M. Arvidsson and C. Parsley (2024) ‘The Inhuman as the Human‘ Critical Legal Thinking Blog 23 Sep 2024.

M. Arvidsson (2024) ‘Evangelical Lutheran Mission, Law, and the Colonial State as Corporation: The ‘Thick’ and the ‘Thin’ of Sovereign Power in the Congo Free State, 1881–1908’, The Laureate Program in International Law Beehive seminar, Melbourne Law School, Australia (recorded for the Laureate program podcast series)

M. Arvidsson (2024) AI – Är frågorna verkligen så nya? Kunskapslunch seminar, University of Gothenburg. Public video lecture, published 30 September 2024.

M. Arvidsson (2024) ‘Knit, code resist: Feminist performative practices of non-fascist living with AI and law’, blog post, published on 2 September 2024

M. Arvidsson, G. González, and Jörg Pohle (2024) ‘Kerstin Anér, Pioneering Thinker of Data Power – Towards A Critical Reimagining the History of Data Law and Policy‘, Critical Legal Thinking Blog, 29 July 2024.

M. Bak McKenna & M. Arvidsson (2024) ‘Gendering Public and Private International Law: Transversal Legal Histories of the State, Market and Women’s Private Property Rights’ American Journal of International Law (AJIL) Unbound Symposium in memory of Karen Knop, 118:12–17. doi:10.1017/aju.2023.53.

M. Arvidsson (2024) ‘Being Together – The Silent Healing Touch of Plants. A Posthuman Account of Life, Death, and More-than-Human Kinship.’ The Fatigue Files Podcast #25, ed. by A. Grear, published 16 February 2024.

M. Arvidsson & P. Bengtsen (2024) ‘Just Urban Space: Street art and Spatial Justice,’ in E. Hannerz & P. Bengtsen (eds) Urban Creativity: Essays on on Interventions in Public Space. Dokument Press.

M. Arvidsson (2024) ‘International Law PhD Supervision Pedagogy: A Psycho/Analytical Situation of Counter/Transference,’ in L. Brännström, M. Gunneflo, A. Parsa (eds) The Significance of Gregor Noll. Livonia Print, 107–118.

M. Arvidsson & E. Jones (eds) (2024) International Law and Posthuman Theory. Abingdon: Routledge.

M. Arvidsson (2024) ‘Posthuman feminism as a theoretical and methodological approach to international law’ in M. Arvidsson & E. Jones (eds) International Law and Posthuman Theory. Abingdon: Routledge, 31–59.

E. Jones & M. Arvidsson (2024) ‘Introduction to International Law and Posthuman Theory’, in M. Arvidsson & E. Jones (eds) International Law and Posthuman Theory. Abingdon: Routledge, 1–27.

2023

G. Arguello, M. Arvidsson & N. Krabbe (2023) ‘Marine Ecosystem Bodies as Entangled Environments and Entangled Laws: Drones and the Marine Environment’, AJIL Unbound 117:145–50. doi:10.1017/aju.2023.19.

M. Arvidsson & G. Noll (eds) (2023) ‘AI-Supported Decision-Making and International Law’, 92(1) Nordic Journal of International Law. Special issue: editor.

M. Arvidsson & G. Noll (statistical analysis contributions from E. Lorentzen & M. Sundén) (2023) ‘Decision Making in Asylum Law and Machine Learning: Autoethnographic Lessons Learned on Data Wrangling and Human Discretion’, 92(1) Nordic Journal of International Law, 133–69. doi:10.1163/15718107-bja10057.

O. Korhonnen, M. Bruncevic & M. Arvidsson (2023) ‘Subjecthood in Cyberspace and the Uncanny Valley of International Law’, 92(1) Nordic Journal of International Law, 82–113. doi:10.1163/15718107-bja10058.

M. Arvidsson & B. Sjöstedt (2023) ’Ordering Human-Other relationships: International Humanitarian Law and Ecologies of Armed Conflicts’, in F. Mégret, U. Natarajan, & V. Chapaux (eds) International Law and Anthropocentrism. Abingdon: Routledge, 122–41.

M. Arvidsson & G. Noll (2023) ‘Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Decision Making, and International Law’, 92(1) Nordic Journal of International Law, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718107-bja10060

M. Arvidsson (2023) ‘Post-humanitarian international law’ in R. Braidotti, E. Jones, and G. Klumbyte (eds) More Posthuman Glossary. London, Bloomsbury, 113–15.

2022

M. Arvidsson (2022), ‘Laugh all you Medusas! Écriture feminine as feminist legal translation, transformation, transgression, and translactation in the age of Ai and the Anthropocene,’ 47(2) Australian Feminist Law Journal, 283–97, doi: 10.1080/13200968.2021.2083781.

M. Arvidsson & M. Elander (2022) ‘Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Gender and International Law’, Oxford Bibliographies in International Law. Oxford University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199796953-0239.

2021

M. Arvidsson (2021) ’Maskininlärning och rättsligt beslutsfattande: Migrationsrättsliga frågor och AI’ in G. Noll (ed.) AI, digitalisering och rätten. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

M. Arvidsson (2021) ‘The “Human” in International Humanitarian Law’ in S. Pahuja & S. Chalmers (eds) Routledge Handbook on International Law and the Humanities. Abingdon: Routledge, 422–31. doi: 10.4324/9781003201120-8.

2020

M. Arvidsson (2020), ‘The “turn to history” and the year of the yearbook of international law’, in: O. Spijkers, W.G. Werner, and R.A. Wessel, (eds) Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2019. Netherlands Yearbook of International Law, vol 50. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-403-7_2, 9–20.

M. Arvidsson (2020), ‘The swarm that we already are: Artificially Intelligent (AI) swarming “insect drones”, targeting and international humanitarian law in a posthuman ecology’, 11(1) Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 114–37. https://doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2020.01.05

M. Arvidsson & M. Bak McKenna (2020) ‘The Turn to History in International Law and the Sources Doctrine: Critical Approaches and Methodological Imaginaries’, 33(1) Leiden Journal of International Law, 37–56. doi:10.1017/S0922156519000542.

N. Berbyuk Lindström, D. Koutsikouri, J. Stier, & M. Arvidsson (2020), ’Migrant Employment Integration and Artificial Intelligence (AI)’ Proceedings of the 32nd annual workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (SAIS) online conference, June 16–17, 2020.

M. Arvidsson, L. Brännström & P. Minkkinen (eds) (2020) Constituent Power: Law, Popular Rule and Politics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

M. Arvidsson, L. Brännström & P. Minkkinen (2020), ‘Popular Rule, Constitutional Law and Politics: an orientation’, in M. Arvidsson, L. Brännström & P. Minkkinen (eds) Popular Rule, Constitutional Law and Politics. Edinburgh University Press 2020.

2019

M. Arvidsson (2019) ‘DIY Plant Milk: A Recipe-Manifesto and Method of Ethical Relations, Care, and Resistance’ in M. Cohen & Y. Otomo (eds) Making Milk: The Past, Present and Future of Our Primary Food (London, Bloomsbury).

2018

M. Arvidsson (2018) ‘Targeting, Gender, and International Posthumanitarian Law and Practice: Framing the Question of the Human in International Humanitarian Law’ 44(1) Australian Feminist Law Journal, 9–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2018.1465331

2017

M. Arvidsson (2017) The Subject in International Law: The Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority of Occupied Iraq and its Laws. Lund: MediaTryck. Doctoral Dissertation.

2016

M. Arvidsson, L. Brännström & P. Minkkinen (eds) (2016) The Contemporary Relevance of Carl Schmitt: Law, Politics, Theology. Abingdon: Routledge.

M. Arvidsson (2016), ‘From teleology to eschatology: The political theology of international law of occupation’ in M. Arvidsson, L. Brännström & P. Minkkinen (eds) The Contemporary Relevance of Carl Schmitt: Law, Politics, Theology (Abingdon, Routledge).

M. Arvidsson (2016) ‘Shari’a from behind the bench: Court culture, judicial culture and a judge‐made discourse on Shari’a at a Swedish district court’ in J. S. Nielsen & L. Christoffersen (eds) Shari’a as discourse: Legal traditions and the encounter with Europe. Abingdon: Routledge.

2014

M. Arvidsson & P. Bengtsen (2014) ‘Law, street art and spatial justice’, 5 Nordic Journal of Law and Social Research, 117–30. https://doi.org/10.7146/nnjlsr.v0i5.111084

2013

M. Arvidsson (2013) ‘Embodying Law in the Garden: An Autoethnographic Account of an Office of Law’ 39(1) Australian Feminist Law Journal, 21–45. https://doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2013.10854490

M. Arvidsson, L. Dahlberg, M. Bruncevic & L. Brännström (eds) (2013) ‘Gardens of Justice’ 39 Australian Feminist Law Journal.

2012

M. Arvidsson (2012), ’Ockupationsrättens politiska teologi’ in J. Wittrock & H. Falk (eds) Vän eller fiende ‐ En antologi om Carl Schmitts politiska tänkande. Daidalos, Stockholm.

2011

M. Arvidsson (2011) ‘Who happens here? Ethical responsibility, subjectivity, and corporeality: Self‐accounts in the Archive of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) of Iraq’ 77 NoFoundations – Journal of Extreme Legal Positivism, 71–122.

M. Arvidsson (2011) ‘Facing the unknown/defacing the known: Mahr in Swedish courts’ in R. Mehdi and J. S. Nielsen (eds) Embedding Mahr in the European Legal System. Copenhagen: DJØF.

2010

M. Arvidsson (2010) ‘How long is ‘now’? The Christian eschatological concept of a critique of law’, in K. Å. Modéer, S. Andersen & L. Christoffersen (eds) Law & Religion in the 21st Century – Nordic Perspectives: New Life in the Ruins – Pluralistic renewal in the Lutheran setting. Copenhagen: DJØF.

2007

M. Arvidsson & E. Trolle (eds) (2007) Jag sträcker mig in i framtiden. Lund: Corpus Iuris Förlag.

M. Arvidsson & E. Trolle (eds) (2007) Det Kjell Åkiska: En hyllningsskrift till Kjell Å Modéer inför pensioneringen i maj 2007. Lund: Corpus Iuris Förlag.

M. Arvidsson & E. Trolle (2007) ’Förord: Det Kjell Åkiska’ in M. Arvidsson & E. Trolle Önnerfors (eds) Det Kjell Åkiska: En hyllningsskrift till Kjell Å Modéer inför pensioneringen i maj 2007. Lund: Corpus Iuris Förlag.

M. Arvidsson (2007) ’The Presence of Absence of Personal Identity. Everyday Conditions of Practicing Law’ in M. Arvidsson & E. Trolle Önnerfors (eds) Jag sträcker mig in i framtiden. Lund: Corpus Iuris Förlag.

M. Arvidsson & E. Trolle (2007) ’Jag sträcker mig in i framtiden’ in M. Arvidsson & E. Trolle Önnerfors (eds) Jag sträcker mig in i framtiden. Corpus Iuris Förlag 2007. Editors’ introduction.

M. Arvidsson (2007) ’På vägen till Damaskus: Suveränen, demos, tiden och rätten. En läsning av Carl Schmitt i undantagstillståndet, kriget och ockupationen’ in M. Arvidsson & E. Trolle Önnerfors (eds) Det Kjell Åkiska: En hyllningsskrift till Kjell Å Modéer inför pensioneringen i maj 2007. Lund: Corpus Iuris Förlag.

2006

M. Arvidsson (2006) ’Rättens ordning i den tid som återstår’ in K. Å. Modéer & M. Sunnqvist (eds) Från Schlyters lustgård: Rättshistoriska uppsatser. Lund: Corpus Iuris Förlag.

2003

M. Arvidsson & L. Kiwala (2003) ‘Young women and urbanization ‐ trying to cope in crowded cities’, Habitat Debate.

2000

M. Arvidsson (2000) ’Malexandertalet: ett tal två situationer’, Retorikmagasinet.