Sara Stendahl

University of Gothenburg | GU · Department of Law

In 2014, the Department of Law at the University of Gothenburg launched the Gothenburg Law Clinic, or Rättspraktiken, to offer students a way to gain increased practical experience through applied studies rooted in the tradition of clinical legal education (CLE). The core pedagogical element of CLE can be described as anchoring teaching in grassroo...

This book offers a legal analysis of the social protection measures taken by welfare states across the globe during the COVID-19 pandemic. The twenty-one country studies in this book set out in detail how the social law measures adopted during the pandemic interacted with existing welfare state institutions, what their legal nature was, how the rel...

This chapter takes an interest in arrangements made to secure the enforcement of social rights within the areas of health care, education, housing and social assistance and it develops into an analysis of the arguments pro-contra the enforceability of social human rights as a legal strategy to enhance EU citizenship. While it is a barrier to the f...

Access to public education systems has tended to be below normative levels where Roma children are concerned. Various long-standing social, cultural, and institutional factors lie behind the lower levels of engagement and achievement of Roma children in education, relative to many others, which is reflective of the general lack of integration of th...

The aim of this Special Issue is to investigate the impact of free movement and EU citizenship on the laws that make up traditional residence-based social security schemes at the national level The contributions to the collection allow for comparative reflections between countries and in relation to their dealings with a multi-level normative spect...

Since the mid-1980's several, major, changes have been made in the Swedish sickness insurance system. The official reasons for these changes have predominantly been of an economic character. These radical changes have made critics cry out warnings for a "change of system". They see the foundations of the welfare state as threatened. This paper deal...

The principle of national responsibility is of essential importance for the international regulation of nuclear waste and spent nuclear fuel. The principle lays down the obligation of each state producing nuclear energy to take responsibility for the residual products that this production generates. It is a principle that can be, and has been, invo...

Work has become the centre of most modern welfare policies. It is the primacy of work, as the proposed key-aspect of welfare sustainability, which has created no-tions of work-first welfare. A main political concern of most European countries in the last years has been to develop strategies that will increase the level of labour market participatio...