Hanna Eklund

Hanna Eklund is Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law. She was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Sciences Po Law School in Paris and holds a Ph.D. in European Law from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (2016). 

In 2020 she was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship from the European Commission and she is currently the principle investigator of the project ‘Colonialism and EU Law: Writing Legal Histories for the Future’ funded by Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond. 

Hanna teaches Institutionel forfatningsret og EU-forfatningsret at BA-level, as well as the Master course Advanced EU Constitutional Law. 

EU Law

Law and Social Change

Employment

2021- Tenure track Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law

2023 Parental Leave

2020 Parental Leave

2019 Research Associate at the Academy of European Law at the EUI, Florence

2017-2018 Postdoctoral Researcher at Sciences Po Law School, Paris 

Education and Qualifications

2016 Ph.D. in European Law from the European University Institute (EUI), Florence

2014 Visiting Scholar and Research Fellow at Columbia University Law School, New York

2011 Master of Laws (Juris kandidat) Uppsala University 

External Funding Awarded

2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship from the European Commission for the project ‘An Ever Closer Union Among the Peoples of Europe: A Critical Legal History’ (EPoCH)

2021 Inge Lehmann Grant from Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond for the project 'Colonialism in EU Law: Writing Legal Histories for the Future' (ColonyEU)