Primary fields of research

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

Teaching

Police law, sociology of law, jurisprudence

Current research

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. This includes working on a text book on Danish police law set to come out in 2026.

Alongside colleagues at both the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Social Sciences, Mikkel has also been involved in creating the new Copenhagen Centre for Criminology (CCC) that will begin its activities in January 2026. 

In parallel to this, Mikkel is finishing a book The Sites of Justice in International Criminal Law: Place-based practices and global relations. The monograph is forthcoming on OUP and builds on research conducted as part of an ERC grant that ran from 2019-2024 (ERC-StG: 802053). In the same period, he was Action Chair of the COST Action Justice360: Global Atrocity Justice Constellations (CA18228).

CV

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 (graduated in top three percentile)

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

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

Academic employments

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