Contributivism

2022

• November 2022 The Contributivism project is organising an international conference at the Humanities Theatre in Uppsala on the theme "European Citizens Thirty Years On: Economic Contributors, Political Members, Right-holders?" in collaboration with Uppsala Forum för demokrati, fred och rättvisa (November 22-23). A number of international guests are in attendance and the keynote is to be given by Eleanor Sharpston of Trinity College, Dublin.

  The programme and link for registration can be found here: https://www.europeancitizenship30.se/

• June 2022 Jonas Hultin Rosenberg’s and Johan Wejryd’s article “Attitudes toward competing voting-right requirements: Evidence from a conjoint experiment” is published in Electoral Studies. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2022.102470. The article is the first to map contibutivst attitudes along the support for other voting rights requirements. Substantive minorities are found to support disenfranchisement of non-tax paying citizens in the US. 
• ​17 juni 2022 Anna-Sara Lind gives a talk on ’En religionsfrihet för vår samtid – nya frågor om form, räckvidd och ansvar?’ Nordiskt kyrkorättsligt möte, Sigtunastiftelsen
• 11 June 2022  Elena Prats  presents the paper On the Legal Notion of Arbitrariness at The Swedish Congress of Philosophy 2022 at Lund University.
• ​2 June 2022,  Elena Prats  presents the paper The Value of Values: Assessing Citizenship by Investment Programs in the EU at the Higher Seminar in Philosophy of Law at Uppsala University.
• 19 May 2022 Anna-Sara Lind chairs a seminar on overindebtedness in Humanistiska teatern, Uppsala university.
• April-May 2022 Anthoula Malkopoulou is interviewed by French TV channel ARTE and Radio France Internationale on electoral participation and compulsory voting.
• 15 April 2022 Anna-Sara Lind gives a talk at Folkuniversitetet on ‘Human Rights – An Introduction.
• ​April 2022 Anthoula Malkopoulou’s draft manuscript Theories of Democratic Self-Defence  wins the Annual York Political Theory Manuscript Workshop competition.
• 24 March 2022 Anna-Sara Lind gives a talk at the Diplomatic Forum, Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the topic of ‘Public Information – Taking Human Righs Seriousy’ 
• 24 March 2022 Anna-Sara Lind gives a talk entitled ‘Reflections over Non-Liberty’ at Tribunalen, ROKS. 
• 9 March 2022 Anna-Sara Lind gives a talk registered for the Swedish Radio Utbidningsradion ‘Om grundlagen och dess betydelse idag’
• 1 March 2022 Anthoula Malkopoulou publishes an article (with L. Hill) on "The Politics of Voter Presence" in International Political Science Review. Doi: 10.1177/0192512120922902 
• February 2022 Anthoula Malkopoulou is invited to present a paper at the REDEM workshop ‘Migration, Populism and Ethical Perspectives on Voting’ in Stockholm in June.
• 1 February 2022 Patricia Mindus becomes project leader of the interdisciplinary research program Democracy & Higher Education at Uppsala University. 
• 15 January 2022 Anna-Sara Lind & Rebecca Thorburn Stern publish ’A Stable Yet Fragile System? Legal Resilience against Rights Erosion in Current Swedish Migration Policy’, in S. Smet & V. Stoyanova, Migrants’ Rights, Populism and Legal Resilience in Europe, Cambridge University Press 2022, pp. 330-354
• 15 January 2022 Patricia Mindus publishes ‘On Population Design: Using Migration Law to Dismantle Constitutional Democratic Institutions’, in S. Smet & V. Stoyanova, Migrants’ Rights, Populism and Legal Resilience in Europe, Cambridge University Press 2022, pp. 70-93.
• 1 January 2022 Anthoula Malkopoulou is appointed Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the Dept of Government, Uppsala University.

2021

• December 2021 Anna-Sara Lind and Thèrese Fridström Montoya publish the co-authored chapter ’Socialt arbete i det allmännas tjänst’ in T. Fridström Montoya (ed), Juridik för socialt arbete, 3 uppl., Gleerups förlag 2021, pp. 13–23
• December 2021 Anna-Sara Lind publishes the chapter ’Socialtjänstens statsrättsliga förankring’ in T. Fridström Montoya (ed), Juridik för socialt arbete, 3 uppl., Gleerups förlag 2021, pp. 25-53
• 1 December 2021 Anna-Sara Lind holds a keynote on ’Allas lika värde enligt regeringsformen’ on an international workshop organised by Mats Lundström in collaboration with Uppsala forum.
• December 2021 Patricia Mindus wins the Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles Award for The Cambridge Companion to Legal Positivism, Cambridge University Press (2021), co-edited with Torben Spaak. 
• 21 November 2020 Anna-Sara Lind  participates in the event Forskarna på slottet
• November 2021Jonas Hultin Rosenberg and Johan Wejryd are awarded funding from the Swedish Research Council for the project Varieties of attitudes to family migration in Europe (2022–2024). The project will study attitudes toward requirements for family migration, including contributivist attitudes about e.g. income requirements.
• November 2021, Elena Prats  publishes her book contribution Are Citizenship-by-Investment Programs Legitimate? Suggesting Some Assessment Methods, a chapter of the book 'Money Matters in Migration', Cambridge University Press, ed. de Lange, T., Schrauwen, A, and Maas, W.
• November 2021 Jonas Hultin Rosenberg (PI) and Johan Wejryd are awarded funding from the Swedish Research Council for the project Obstacles and opportunities for equal participation of citizens with intellectual disabilities: evidence from a world-leading accessibility initiative (2022–2024).
• October 2021 Anthoula Malkopoulou is offered a book contract by Oxford University Press for her manuscript Theories of Democratic Self-Defense.
• October 2021 Anna-Sara Lind and Olle Lundin (eds) Mänskliga rättigheter i det lokala Sverige, Studentlitteratur.
• October 2021, Jonas Hultin Rosenberg publishes the chapter ”Rätten till deltagande och den territoriella rösträtten i den lokala svenska demokratin” in Mänskliga rättigheter i det lokala Sverige, Anna-Sara Lind and Olle Lundin (eds), Studentlitteratur. 
• October 2021, Anna-Sara Lind and Olle Lundin publish the co-authored introduction ’Mänskliga rättigheter – ett ansvar för det lokala’ in Mänskliga rättigheter i det lokala Sverige, Anna-Sara Lind and Olle Lundin (eds), Studentlitteratur, pp. 17-27
• October 2021, Anna-Sara Lind and Olle Lundin publish the co-authored chapter ‘Mänskliga rättigheter och förvaltningslagen’, in Mänskliga rättigheter i det lokala Sverige, Anna-Sara Lind and Olle Lundin (eds), Studentlitteratur, pp. 73-94
• 10 September 2021, Jonas Hultin Rosenberg (together with Ludvig Beckman and Karim Jebari) participates in Governing AI (MANCEPT workshops) with a paper titled “Machine Learning and Democratic Legitimacy”. 
• 9 September 2021 Anna-Sara Lind gives a talk on limitations of rights in the conference ’Begränsningar av mänskliga rättigheter och pandemin, firande av Peter Nobel’.
• 9 September 2021 Anna-Sara Lind publishes the textbook ‘Offentlig rätt’ 4 uppl., Liber förlag, 2021 (374 s), as well as the exercise book Offentlig rätt – övningsbok Liber förlag, 2021 (307 pp), both co-edited with Stefan Zetterström.
• 9 September 2021 Anna-Sara Lind publishes the textbook Offentlighet, sekretess och dataskydd, Liber förlag, 2021(179 pp) co-edited with Stefan Zettersröm and Andreas Dahlqvist.
• 1 September 2021 Anna-Sara Lind gives an introductory talk on the European Commission against racism and intolerance (ECRI) in a Pulic Law meeting at the Faculty of Law, Uppsala.
• Autumn 2021, Elena Prats publishes her article Las formas de lo arbitrario: Los altos y bajos de Towards a Theory of Arbitrary Law-making in Migration Policy de Patricia Mindus, in CEFD (Cuadernos Electrónicos de Filosofía del Derecho), n. 45, pp.178-194.
• 8 July 2021, Elena Prats presents her paper entitled ‘Arbitrariness at the Time of the Covid Pandemic’ at the International Society for Public Law’s Annual Conference  ICON • S Mundo.
• 1 July 2021, Jonas Hultin Rosenberg (together with Carol Tishelman, Anna Hadders and Lars Eriksson) publishes the article “Fearing fear itself: Crowdsourced longitudinal data on Covid-19-related fear in Sweden” with PLOS ONE.  
• June 2021 Anna-Sara Lind is nominated Member of the Migration Agency’s Ethical Committee, renewed mandate 2021-2024.
• 9 June 2021 Patricia Mindus gives an interview on radio for Filosofiska rummet on the topic of citizenshiphttps://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/1743689
• 8 June 2021, Elena Prats presents her book chapter for the book Money Matters in Migration, eds. de Lange, T., Schrauwen, A, and Maas, W., CUP, 2021 at the Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA) Annual Conference.
• 6-7 May 2021 Patricia Mindus organizes the Annual Conference of the Swedish IVR ‘Reflections on the Law: Perils, Potentials, Perspectives’.
• May 2021, Elena Prats is elected as the PhD representative to several positions of trust by the Doctoral Board for Humanities and the Doctoral Board of the University, including vice-chair of the DN.
• May 2021 Patricia Mindus is nominated for membership on the Ethical Board of the Swedish Migration Agency.
• May 2021 Patricia Mindus is nominated for candidature to the electoral college for the Scientific area SSH Uppsala University 2021-23.
• April-May 2021, Elena Prats participates at the course Supervising Students for Degree Projects of Uppsala University.
• April 2021 Johan Wejryd is awarded a post doc position at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University 2021–2023, funded by Länsförsäkringars forkningsfond.
• April 2021, Elena Prats’ book review ‘Cuestiones de Estatus: Una mirada a Hacia una teoría funcionalista de la ciudadanía de Patricia Mindus’, is accepted for publication in the inaugural issue of Latin American Human Rights Studies , vol. 1, n. 1.
• 26 April 2021, Anna-Sara Lind gives a talk on ’Mångvetenskaplighet i den offentliga rätten’ at Juridiska fakultetens forskardag.
• 13 April 2021, Jonas Hultin Rosenberg and Fia Sundevall arrange a seminar on contributivism and democratic inclusion and presents a paper titled "Contributivism: On economic contribution as a basis for democratic inclusion".  
• 13 April 2021, Elena Prats presents a chapter of her dissertation entitled ‘Are Citizenship-by-Investment programs in the EU arbitrary?’ at the Workshop on Contributivism organized by the project Contributivism: On Practices, Debates and Attitudes About Grounding Democratic Inclusion on Economic Contributions.
• 9 April 2021, Elena Prats presents her paper The Value of Values: Assessing the Legitimacy of Citizenship by Investment Programs in the EU at the Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy  at Uppsala University.
• April 2021 Patricia Mindus gives a talk on ‘A Philosophical Turn in Migration Theory’ at the Càtedra de Cultura Jurídica in Girona http://diobma.udg.edu/handle/10256.1/1624
• April 2021, Patricia Mindus’s article ‘A Right to Leave but No Right to Enter Elsewhere? Uncovering the Finisterrae in the Migration Regime in Human Rights’, co-authored with Guilherme Marques Pedro, is accepted for publication in the inaugural issue of the Latin American Journal of Human Rights (2021:1).
• April 2021, Elena Prats publishes her book review Cuestiones de Estatus: Una mirada a «Hacia una teoría funcionalista de la ciudadanía» de Patricia Mindus, book review published at Latin American Human Rights Studies (LAHRS), v. 1, n. 1.
• 31 March 2021, Elena Prats presents her paper ‘Discretion, Arbitrariness and the Rule of Law’ at the Higher Seminar in Legal Philosophy at Uppsala University.
• 25 March 2021, Patricia Mindus participates in the workshop on Ludwig Beckman’s new manuscript Norms of Democracy. A Theory of Democratic Inclusion, in Oslo.
• March 2021, Patricia Mindus’s article ‘On Population Design’ is accepted for publication in S. Smet, V. Stoyanova (eds.) Migrants’ Rights, Populism and Legal Resilience in Europe, Cambridge University Press 2022.
• March 2021, Patricia Mindus’s article ‘Un popolo di navigatori o di trasmigratori?’ is accepted for publication in V. Pazé, M. Cuono (eds.) Liber amicorum. Ciò che è reale è irrazionale? Dialogando con Michelangelo Bovero, Accademia University Press 2021.
• 18 March 2021 Anthoula Malkopoulou publishes a book chapter on "More Representation, Less Radicalism: How Compulsory Voting Was Defended in Europe" in the volume A Century of Compulsory Voting in Australia: Genesis, Impact and Future, eds. Bonotti & Strangio, Palgrave.
• 21 February 2021 Patricia Mindus’ book on citizenship becomes available in full open access: https://www.fupress.com/…/cittadini-e-no–forme-e…/2460. Download here.
• 4 February 2021, Patricia Mindus participates in the round table debate on the book Folk & Vilja by Folke Tersman and Torbjörn Tännsjö.
• 2 February 2021, Patricia Mindus gives a lecture on ‘What does it mean to be a migrant?’ at CRS Samverkansdagarna.
• February 2021, Patricia Mindus’s article ‘When is Lack of Emotion a Problem for Justice? Four Views on Legal Decision-makers’ Emotive Life’, is published in CRISPP Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (2021)
• February 2021 The Cambridge Companion to Legal Positivism, Cambridge University Press (2021) edited by Patricia Mindus and Torben Spaak was released.
• February 2021, Elena Prats is invited as a visiting scholar to the Barcelona Center for European Studies (Pompeu Fabra University).
• 8 January 2021, Patricia Mindus is the opponent on Thomas Sörbrink Petersens Dissertation for Doktoral (habilitering) at Aarhus, Denmark
• 8 January 2021, together with Paolo Sandro, Patricia Mindus organizes the international conference “A question of Trust? Hard and Soft Law during the Covid-19 Pandemic” in collaboration with Uppsala Forum for Democracy, Peace and Justice, the Faculty of Law at Uppsala University, and Salford University. Speakers included: Raff Donelson (Penn State University) Gina Gustavsson (Uppsala University) Tom Hickman QC (University College London) Guillermo Jimenez (Adolfo Ibáñez University) Kristen Rundle (University of Melbourne) Benjamin van Rooij (University of Amsterdam) Pauline Westerman (University of Groningen) Olof Wilske (Uppsala University)

2020

• 15 December 2020, Patricia Mindus edits the special issue The Justice of Others: Arbitrary Law-making in Contemporary Migration Policy.Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics  with contributions by Linda Bosniak, Phil Cole, Alexis Spire, Enrica Rigo and Francesca Asta. 
• December 2020 Anna-Sara Lind publishes the chapter ’Frankrike’, in Komparativ konstitutionell rätt – en lärobok, Anna Jonsson Cornell (ed), Iustus förlag, 3rd ed., 2020, pp 149-178.
• December 2020 Anna-Sara Lind with Hans Eklund, Lotta Lerwall, co-edits the volume Vänbok till Sverker Scheutz, Iustus förlag, 2020 (650 s)
• December 2020 Anna-Sara Lind publishes the chapter ’En etisk förvaltning? Om etiska råd i svensk statsförvaltning’, in H. Eklund, L. Lerwall & A.-S. Lind (eds), Vänbok till Sverker Scheutz, Iustus förlag, 2020, pp. 457-465
• 14 December 2020, Elena Prats is granted the Anna Maria Lundin grant for funding her research at Pompeu Fabra University.
• 8 December 2020, Elena Prats is granted the Sederholm, Nordic travel scholarship for doing research at the Åbo Akademi University in 2021.
• 3 December 2020  Patricia Mindus gives a lecture on Migration and Citizenship: Critical Profiles at the University of Ferrara, Law School. Convenor Orsetta Giolo.
• December 2020, Patricia Mindus’s article ‘Towards a Theory of Arbitrary Law-making in Migration Policy’ is published in the Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics (2020:2)
• December 2020, Patricia Mindus published the Introduction to ‘The Justice of Others: Arbitrary Law-Making in Contemporary Migration Policy’, Special issue in Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics (2020:2)
• December 2020, Elena Prats is selected as the PhD representative of Uppsala University at the international and inter-university project ENLIGHT.
• December 2020, Elena Prats is selected as a participant of the program Mentor4Research at the Uppsala University. Prats’ mentor is Thomas Bull,  judge of the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden and former professor in Constitutional Law at Uppsala University.
• December 2020, Elena Prats publishes her article El delito de Maltrato Animal en España: Pasado, Presente y Futuro in Revista Jurídica de Catalunya n.4-2020, pp. 965-1000.
• December 2020, Patricia Mindus and Elena Prats publish Women in Philosophy: Voices from Scandinavia- An Introduction, at the journal Theoria, Vol. 86, n.6.
• December 2020, Elena Prats contributes with the book chapter Are Citizenship-by-Investment Programs Legitimate? Suggesting Some Assessment Methods for the book ‘Money Matters in Migration’, Cambridge University Press, ed. de Lange, T., Schrauwen, A, and Maas, W.
• December 2020, the special issue Women in Philosophy: Voices from Scandinavia for Theoria with contributions by Pia Campeggiani, Katharina Berndt Ramussen, Karin Edvardsson Björnberg, Kristin Sampson, Kathinka Evers, Jessica Pepp, Carla Bagnoli and Elisabeth Schellekens is published (editors Patricia Mindus and Elena Prats) Accessible at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17552567/2020/86/6
• 21 November 2020, Elena Prats presents the paper The value of values: the Introduction of Arbitrariness by Citizenship by Investment Programmes as an Erosion Factor of the Rule of Law in the EU at the online IVR Workshop Japan.
• 19 November 2020 Patricia Mindus gives a talk on ‘Migration and Human Rights’ at the event Forskarna på slotted in Uppsala
• 12-13 November 2020, Elena Prats co-organizes with Lutz Gschwind and Lina Melén the online PhD conference Climate Change as a Challenge for Democracy, Peace and Justice in collaboration with Uppsala Forum for Democracy, Peace and Justice.
• 7 November 2020, Jonas Hultin Rosenberg publishes the article “The all-affected principle reconsidered”, with Social Theory and Practice. 
• November 2020, Patricia Mindus is nominated member of the scientific board of the journals Theoria (re-elected 2020) and Phenomenology and Mind
• 21-22 October 2020, Jonas Hultin Rosenberg arranges a workshop on economic voting-rights requirements.
• 21 October 2020, Jonas Hultin Rosenberg gives a talk ”Ekonomiska rösträttshinder och kontributivism som en princip för demokratisk inklusion”. 
• 5 October 2020, Anna-Sara Lind gives a talk on the closing panel of the international conference commemorating the battle of Salamis ‘Salamis and Democracy, 2500 years after’
• October 2020, Patricia Mindus  participates as expert on justice in the TV-series Lex Lapidus on the conceptions of justice in different legal systems aired on SVT1, now available on ur.se
• October 2020, Anna-Sara Lind in nominated Sweden’s representative in the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI).
• September 2020,  Patricia Mindus  collaborates on two MSCA-IF proposals: on Religious Identity and Citizenship among Polish Immigrants in Sweden and Finland and one on The Constitutional Identity of Citizenship in the Time of the Ius pecuniae.
• 10 September 2020, Elena Prats presents the paper Citizenship qua legal status at the Higher Seminar in Legal Philosophy (online).
• August 2020, Jonas Hultin Rosenberg’s, Anna-Sara Lind’s, and Johan Wejryd’s article ’Allmän rösträtt 30 år? En tvärvetenskaplig blick på rätten till politiskt inflytande för barn, funktionshindrade och mottagare av försörjningsstöd’ [30 years of universal franchise? An interdisciplinary inquiry into the right to influence for children, persons with intellectual disabilities, and persons on welfare] is published in Nordisk socialrättslig tidskrift [Nordic Journal for Social Legislation] 25–26 pp 71–95.
• 13 July 2020 Anthoula Malkopoulou publishes an editorial on "Gender, Parliament, Democracy and Time" in Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory. Doi: 10.33134/rds.331
•  17 June 2020 Patricia Mindus and Triantafyllos Gkouvas co-authored the chapter Trust in Law in Routledge Handbook of Trust and Philosophy, edited by Judith Simon
• 15 June 2020, Patricia Mindus publishes an article entitled La legislatiòn en Axel Hägerström in the journal Iuris Dictio Nº25 / June, 2020 / pp.141-163. e-ISSN 2528-7834. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18272/iu.v25i25.1793 ; Open access: https://revistas.usfq.edu.ec/index.php/iurisdictio/article/view/1793/1884​
• 8 June 2020 Anthoula Malkopoulou publishes an article on "Compulsory Voting and Right-wing Populism: Mobilisation, Representation and Socioeconomic Inequalities" in Australian Journal of Political Science. Doi: 10.1080/10361146.2020.1774507
• 1 June 2020, Jonas Hultin Rosenberg publishes the article “Democracy, respect for judgement and disagreement on democratic inclusion”, with Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.  
• 23 May 2020 Svensk Juristtidning decides to adopt Patricia Mindus as a member of the association.
• 7 May 2020 Patricia Mindus gives a talk on ‘Migration and Human Rights’ at the event Forskarna på slottet.
•  25 April 2020 Patricia Mindus’ policy suggestion in her book European Citizenship after Brexit is picked up as a group of lawyers and campaigners who successfully filed a case with the General Court of the European Union arguing that all UK citizens who were legally defined as EU citizens on 31 January 2020 should retain that citizenship regardless of the UK’s departure from the European Union. Despite coinciding with the Covid-19 outbreak, this has attracted some media attention (e.g. report in the London Economic, twit by Guy Verhofstadt and link to the webpage of the campaign led by Prof. Joshua Silver).
• 17 April 2020, Patricia Mindus gives a talk on “A Philosophical Turn in Migration Theory?” In Universidad de Girona (Spain) International Conference En teoría hay mujeres (en teoría) [cancelled due to Covid-19]
• Spring 2020 Anna-Sara Lind is nominated refernce person in the government assignment Regeringens uppdrag till IVO: Att bidra till lärande under utbrottet av covid-19 och inför framtida sjukdomsutbrott. 
• March 2020, Elena Prats publishes her book “La urgencia de la bioética: a favor de la constitución de un foro para el consenso moral global”, ed. EAE.
• 18 March 2020, Patricia Mindus publishes the op ed Will Our Children Live in Democracies Where Their Voting Rights Depend on How Much Money Thy Make? CRS krönika nr. 2/2020
• 3 March 2020 Patricia Mindus and Elena Prats publish “Quality of legislation meets migration policy: An Introduction” in The Theory and Practice of Legislation, 7:2, 7384, DOI: 10.1080/20508840.2020.1729554
• 2 March 2020 Patricia Mindus publishes the 2020/2 chronicle for CRS at Uppsala University entitled “Will Our Children Live in Democracies Where Their Voting Rights Depend on How Much Money They Make?”
• February 2020 Patricia Mindus authored a monograph on citizenship now available in Open Access. Download here https://www.fupress.com/archivio/pdf/2460_21440.pdf
• 21 February 2020 The Special Issue Quality of Legislation Meets Migrations Policy is published in the in the journal The Theory and Practice of Legislation 2019, Vol. 7, Issue 2 with contributions by Rebecca Stern, Mauro Zamboni, Tesseltje de Lange, Pedro de Sena, João Tiago Silveira & Diana Ettner. Editors: Patricia Mindus and Elena Prats
• 14 February 2020, Anna-Sara Lind gives a talk as invited speaker at the International conference on Authoritarian Populism, Restrictions of Migrants’ Rights and Democratic Decay in Europe, Lund University.
• 13 February 2020, Patricia Mindus gives a talk on “On Population Design: Using law to dismantle constitutional democratic institutions?” Invited speaker at the International conference on Authoritarian Populism, Restrictions of Migrants’ Rights and Democratic Decay in Europe, Lund University.
• 4 February 2020, Jonas Hultin Rosenberg gives a talk “Kontributivism” at CRS Collaboration day 2020 followed by reflections by Mikael Ribbenvik (Director General of the Swedish Migration Agency).  
• 30 January 2020 Patricia Mindus  publishes the article ”Om vissa juridiska föreställningars sanning” in Svensk Juristtidning
• 9-11 January 2020, Patricia Mindus is invited to give a talk on “Justice between Politics and the Law” at the University of Turin, Department of Government.
• 1 January 2020 Anthoula Malkopoulou is appointed Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the Dept of Political Science, Lund University.

2019

• 21-22 November 2019, Elena Prats presents her paper “The value of values: The introduction of arbitrariness by citizenship by investment programmes as an erosion factor of the Rule of Law in the EU” at the Globalcit Annual Conference, European University Institute, Florence, Italy.​
• 14-15 November 2019, Elena Prats presents her paper “Citizenship by investment programmes: an open door for arbitrariness in citizenship policies?” at the PhD Workshop on International Migration and Human Rights, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
• 6- 8 November 2019, Elena Prats presents her paper “Granting citizenship on arbitrary grounds: the case of Citizenship by investment programmes” at the Conference Organizing Migration and Integration in Contemporary Societies – OMICS, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
• 18 October 2019 Anthoula Malkopoulou publishes a book chapter (with J. Karagiannis) on "Political Rhetoric in the Refugee Crisis in Greece" in the volume National Rhetorics in the Syrian Immigration Crisis: Victims, Frauds and Floods, eds. Rountree & Tilli, Michigan State University Press 
• ​1 October 2019, Elena Prats gives her mid-term seminar at Uppsala University. The opponent is professor René de Groot, professor at the Maastricht University.
• ​October 2019, Anna-Sara Lind (PI), Jonas Hultin Rosenberg and Johan Wejryd are awarded funding (6M SEK) from WASP-HS for the project “Artificial Intelligence, democracy and human dignity” .
• 1- 12 September 2019, Elena Prats presents her project at the Higher Seminar in Philosophy of Law at the Philosophy Department, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
• September 2019 Anthoula Malkopoulouvisits Trinity College Dublin, Dept of Political Science as invited Visiting Professor.​
• 1- 14 August 2019, Elena Prats presents her project “Trading Places: Assessing the Legitimacy of Citizenship-by-Investment Programmes in the EU” at the Work in Progress Seminar of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany. ​
• 25 July 2019, Elena Prats’ article “Citizenship by Investment Programmes: express naturalisation for bulky wallets. An arbitrary de jure stratification?” has been accepted to be published at the Revista de Derecho Político UNED​.
• 12 July 2019, Elena Prats presents her paper “Selling Votes in the European Union? Presenting Citizenship by Investment Programs and their Relation to Democracy” at the XXIX IVR World Congress, Lucerne, Switzerland.
• 19 June 2019, Elena Prats presents her project “Trading Places: Assessing the Legitimacy of Citizenship-by-Investment Programmes in the EU” at the Faculty of Law of the University Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona, Spain. ​
• The official kick-off of the project Contributivism is scheduled to 1 July 2019.
• 15 March 2019: op-ed in Aftonbladet signed by 91 Swedish researchers on the duty of enfranchised adults to support disenfranchised climate strikers under the age of 18. Written by a small group of researchers including Johan Wejryd och Jonas Hultin Rosenberg.

2018

• December, Patricia Mindus' book The European Citizenship After Brexit is nominated to UACES 2019 Best Book Prize.
• December 18, Elena Prats gives a guest seminar at the Department of Law, Stockholm University: "A market for citizenship"
• November 15, the research team hands in a grant application to NordForsk titled “The Return of Contributivism? On Economic Contribution in Enfranchisement of Migrants” together with colleagues from Stockholm University, University of Copenhagen, Oslo University, University of Southampton and University of Reading.
• November 5, the project Contributivism is awarded a project grant by the Swedish Research Council.