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Expertise:
- Judicial Protection of Human Rights
- Individual Legal Activism
- Constitutional Developments and state-building in Eurasia
- Transnational crime issues and Human Trafficking in Eastern Europe and Central Eurasia.
- Domestic politics and Foreign Policy in Russia and East European states.

Ongoing Projects at the Program:

- Constitutional Developments and Human Rights

- Human Trafficking in the Baltic sea Region

Anna Jonsson, LL.D.
Research Fellow

Project Director, Narcotics Smuggling in the Baltic SeaRegion: an Issue of National and Regional Security, and Constitutional Developments and Human Rights

Dr. Anna Jonsson is a Research Fellow at the Program for Silkroad Studies. She is the Project Director of the “Narcotics Smuggling in the Baltic Sea Region: an Issue of National and Regional Security”-project sponsored by the Swedish National Drug Policy Coordinator. She is also Project Director of the Constitutional Developments and Human Rights Project. Her main areas of expertise are state building processes, rule of law as a development goal, human rights protection, and organized crime and human trafficking in Eurasia.

Dr. Jonsson is the author of a book on judicial review and individual legal activism.  She has also written numerous articles and research reports on the Russian legal system, human trafficking, transnational organized crime, migration and access to justice. Jonsson occasionally publishes op-eds in the Swedish and American media and appears on Swedish TV and radio commenting on developments in Russia.  

Dr. Jonsson holds an LL.D. in Constitutional Law from Uppsala University. Her dissertation examined judicial protection of individual rights and individual judicial acitivism in Russia, with a focus on the impact of the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights on access to justice and individual legal activism in Russia. She also holds a postgraduate degree in East European Studies from Uppsala University; a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from Lund University; and also studied at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

Currently Dr. Jonsson teaches courses on Russian politics and European integration processes at the Department of Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University. She also teaches postgraduate and undergraduate courses on Russian and comparative constitutional law and democratic transformation in Eastern Europe at Uppsala University. Dr. Jonsson has also taught at the Riga Graduate School of Law, Latvia, at the Swedish Police Academy, and at Örebro, Stockholm, Gotland and Kalmar universities in Sweden. She has been a Visiting Researcher at American University's Trnasnational Crime and Corruption Center and its Washington College of Law, and at the Institute of State and Law at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. She speaks Swedish, English, Russian, French, and some German.
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Books

Judicial Review and Individual Legal Activism: The Case of Russia in Theoretical Perspective, Uppsala: Uppsala University, 2005.
The Wider Black Sea Region: An Emerging Hub in European Security, co-authored with Svante Cornell, Niklas Nilsson, Per Häggström, Uppsala, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, 2006.

Chapters in Books

“International Socialization and Access to Justice in Public Law Matters in Russia”, in Uppsala University Yearbook of East European Law 2005, ed. by Kaj Hobér, London, Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Publishing, 2007

“Förvaltningens självständighet och förbud mot ministerstyre: en analys av konstitutionsutskottets betänkande från 2000 till 2005”, in God förvaltning – ideal och praktik, ed. by Lena Marcusson, Juridiska fakulteten i Uppsala, årsbok 2006, Iustus, pp. 163-190.

“Judicial Review of Governmental Actions: A Tool for Russian NGOs?”, in Russia, Europe and the Rule of Law, ed. by Ferdinand Feldbrugge, Leiden, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2006, pp. 93-108.

“Changing Concepts of Rights in Post-Communist Societies”, inDemocratic Transition in Slovenia: Value transformation, education, media, (eds.) Sabrina P. Ramet & Danica Fink-Hafner, A&M University Press, 2006, pp. 29.

“The Tenth Anniversary of the Russian Constitution of 1993: An Appraisal”, (co-author Anders Fogelklou), Uppsala University Yearbook of East European Law 2004, ed. by Kaj Hobér, London, Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Publishing, 2005, pp. 3-13.

“The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation and Individual Legal Activism”, Uppsala University Yearbook of East European Law 2003, ed. by Kaj Hobér, London, Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Publishing, 2004, ss. 91-121.

“Russia – a fragile legal system” (with Anders Fogelklou), in Consolidating Legal Reform in Central- and Eastern Europe , eds. Anders Fogelklou and Fredrik Sterzel, Uppsala, IUSTUS, 2003.

Articles

“Minsta möjliga tystnad, tack!” [Less silence on Russia], NEO Magazine, January/February 2007.

“Slovenien, en solskenhistoria” [Slovenia: A Sunshine Story?], Nordiskt östforum, Nr 1, 2004, Temanummer Centraleuropa inför EU:s östutvidgning. pp. 73-89.

"Den enskilde och staten - att påverka eller påverkas”, Nordic Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2003, pp. 129-146.

"Lagprövning och individuell rättslig aktivism i Ryssland", Nordiskt östforum , Nr 3, 2002, ss. 267-282.

"Det blir kallare i Moskva. Rysslands utveckling och politiska klimat", Inblick Östeuropa , Nr. 1, feb - april, 2003.

Bokrecension av Anne Nivat, Chienne du Guerre A Woman Reporter Behind the Lines of the War in Chechnya , Inblick Östeuropa , Nr. 1, feb - april, 2003.

Bokrecension av Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Vitryssland. Språk och nationalism i ett kulturellt gränsland, Inblick Östeuropa , No. 9, 2002.

"Putin på väg mot presidentposten?", Inblick Östeuropa , nr 3, år 2000.

Policy Papers

“Det internationella narkotikasamarbetet: Sveriges internationella åtaganden och dess implementering i svensk rätt”,  [International Counter Narcotics Cooperation: Sweden’s International Obligations], report commissioned by the Swedish National Criminal Investigation Department, 104 pp.

 “Utvecklingen på rättsområdet i Ryssland och förslag på svenska insatser” [Legal developments in Russian and proposed Swedish measures], background report to the Swedish government’s commission to study reform to aid policy toward Russian and Ukraine, 2004.

 “The Afghanistan Draft Constitution. A Legal Assessment”. Silk Road Policy Brief, November 5, 2003.

"The Russian-Speaking Minority in Estonia: A Source of Threat?", 2001, March, ÖCB and Uppsala University Research Meeting 2001: The Future of European Crisis Management. http://www.ocb.se

”Den ryska vallagen", Inför ryska presidentvalet, erfarenheter från dumavalet 1999 . Red. Carolina Vendil och Wilhelm Unge, Underlagsrapport FOA.

Working Papers

“Return: The Swedish Approach”, co-authored with Dominika Borg, December 2006, Working Papers, 102, Department of Eurasia Studies, Uppsala University, 98pp.

“Lagföring av människohandel i Sverige. En rättsfallsstudie”, [The Legal Pursuit of Human Trafficking in Sweden: A Case Law Study] November 2005, Working Papers, Department of Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University.

“Constitutionalism and Changing Concepts of Rights. The Case of Slovenia”, October 2003, Working Papers , Department of East European Studies, Uppsala University.

"The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, 1997-2001," 2002 October. Working Papers , 73, Department of East European Studies, Uppsala University.

“Nationalising State-Building and Language. The Case of Estonia”, 1999 September, Working Papers , 50, Department of East European Studies, Uppsala University.

Op-Eds

”Stop hykleriet om Rusland”, Information, 62 årg. Nr. 238, www.information.dk, October 12 2006

”Sluta hyckla om Ryssland” [End the Hypocrisy in Russia Policy], Svenska Dagbladet, October 10 2006  

”Gangsterligor stärker greppet”, 4 December 2005, Svenska Dagbladet, (co-author Walter Kegö).

”Putin skadar demokratin”, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, 5 October 2004 (co-author Svante Cornell).

”Risk för folkmord i Tjetjenien”, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, 29 September 2004.

”Slovenien redo för EU-inträde”, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, 21 April 2004.

Putin stärker maktmonopolet, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, 15 november, 2003.

Putin's Power Play, The Baltimore Sun, November 4, 2003.

"Nödvändiga bilder av kriget," Kristianstadsbladet, 2003-02-15.