Sonja Karlsson
Doctoral student
- Sonja.Karlsson@fhs.se
- +46702935598
- Department of International and Operational Law
About Sonja
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Sonja Karlsson is a Doctoral Candidate in Public Law at the Department of Law at Uppsala university as well as at the Department of International and Operational Law at the Swedish Defence University. Her project is about state benefits during war and danger of war. The aim of the prohect is to investigate which legislation Sweden has in the area today, compare the Swedish regulations with the ones in Finland and Norway and finally present suggestions of best practice.
Sonja Karlsson was awarded her Master of Laws (LL.M) degree from Lund University in 2017. She has thereafter gained practical experience in her roles as Asylum Case Officer, Law Clerk, Senior Enforcement Officer and County Counsel. She started her PhD in 2024.
Besides law, Sonja Karlsson has sudied Japanese and spent a semester abroad at Fukuoka Women's University in Japan, where she successfully completed "The World of Japanese Contemporary Culture Program". During the law programme she spent another semester abroad studying Chinese law at the China University of Political Science and Law. She has also participated in the "Executive Summer School in Social Security" at KU Leuven, which granted her a postgraduate certificate in European Social Security.
Sonja Karlsson has presented her research on the following occasions:
2026
Foundation for International Studies on Social Security’s 32nd International Research Seminar on Issues in Social Security, Sigtuna
Nordic Conference in Constitutional Law, Oslo
Today’s Emergencies and Wars: a Challenge to International Law and Constitutional Frameworks, Uppsala
Society for Women Researchers in Uppsala’s “Kvinnomaraton 2026”, Uppsala
2025
The Ragnar Söderberg Foundation, Stockholm
Baltic University Programme PhD Students Training, Uppsala
Nordisk Forvaltningsretligt Seminarium, Copenhagen
Centre for Societal Security, Stockholm
The Social Insurance Ombudsman, Stockholm
Reference Group for the project A Cohesive Approach to Legal Readiness for Peacetime Crises, High Alert Events, and War, Uppsala
The Guild Law Doctoral Workshop, Barcelona
2024
Network Meeting for the Crisis Law Network, Gothenburg