Primary fields of research

Sociology of law, police law, transnational policing, international criminal justice

Teaching

Police law, sociology of law, jurisprudence

Current research

Mikkel is head of centre for the newly started Copenhagen Centre for Criminology (CCC). The CCC is the result of a close collaboration between researchers at the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Social Sciences, UCPH, and begun its activities in January 2026. 

His book The Sites of Justice in International Criminal Law: Place-based practices and global relations is forthcoming on OUP 2027. It builds on research conducted as part of an ERC grant 2019-2024 (ERC-StG: 802053). In the same period, Mikkel was Action Chair of the COST Action Justice360: Global Atrocity Justice Constellations (CA18228).

Having researched international criminal justice, its professionals and patterns of power, for more than a decade, Mikkel is currently renewing his interest in police law and transnational policing. A text book on Danish police law, co-written with former prosecutor Jesper Hjortenberg,  will be published in August 2026.

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Education

2011                    PhD University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law, Sociology of Law

2009:                  Visiting researcher Open University, Walton Hall

2007:                  Master’s degree History of Ideas, Aarhus University

2005:                  Erasmus Scholarship Département de Philosophie, Université Vincennes – Saint-Denis

2005:                  Bachelor’s degree History of Literature, Aarhus University

Academic employments

2019                    Professor WSR, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

2016                    Associate professor, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

2013                    Assistant professor, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

2013                    Postdoc EuroChallenge and the Centre for Excellence for International Courts (iCourts), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

2012:                  Research administrator, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

2011-2012:       Research assistant iCourts, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

2008-2011:       PhD scholar Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

2008:                  Research assistant Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen