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Jessica Jonsson

Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Behavioural, Social and Legal Sciences

Email: amVzc2ljYS5qb25zc29uO29ydS5zZQ==

Phone: +46 19 303526

Room: L2501a

Research subject

Legal Science

Research environments

About Jessica Jonsson

Jessica Jonsson is Ass. Professor of Law at Örebro University, a Senior Guest Lecturer at several universities and institutions and seconded advisor and expert with the Council of Europe. She is a member of four interdisciplinary socio-legal research environments with a strong human rights foundation, and head of JuVås, CVS, Centre for Violence Studies, at Örebro University. Formerly a human rights officer with the international community, her publications and research engage with interdisciplinary and intersectional frameworks, drawing on transitional and restorative justice, legal theory, and semiotic approaches to advance participation and reconciliation within law and society. Her research encompasses migration, international criminal and transitional justice, child rights and humanitarian protection, drawing on many years with UN agencies, ECHO, and INGOs, in diverse contexts. She serves on the editorial board of The International Journal for the Semiotics of Law and is an editor of the forthcoming International Handbook of Legal Language and Communication: From Text to Semiotics (Springer).

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Publications

Articles in journals

Jonsson, J. & Ferrand, F. (2026). Numérique et droit à l’identité: quel accès de l’enfant adopté à ses origines?. Droit et Cultures. [BibTeX]

Chapters in books

Jonsson, J. (2025). Disrupted Identity Rights of Adoptees: A Commentar. In: Jessica Jonsson; Magnus Kristoffersson, Lagar och vägar: Juristprogrammets 20-årsjubileum vid Örebro universitet (pp. 119-141). Uppsala: Iustus förlag. [BibTeX]
Jonsson, J. (2025). Förord. In: Jessica Jonsson; Magnus Kristoffersson, Lagar och vägar: Juristprogrammets 20-årsjubileum vid Örebro universitet (pp. 7-11). Uppsala: Iustus förlag. [BibTeX]
Jonsson, J. & Jönsson, J. H. (2025). Legal and Social Policy Protection for Undocumented Female Migrants. In: Dragica Vujadinović; Eleonor Kristoffersson; Marco Evola, Law and Gender from Intersectionality and Diversity Perspective. . Springer. [BibTeX]
Jonsson, J. (2023). Barns deltagandestatus som brottsoffer i internationella brottmålsförfaranden: ett sätt att uppnå hållbar utveckling. In: Andreas Anderberg; Laura Ervo; Eleonor Kristoffersson, Med unga i fokus: Festskrift till Kerstin Nordlöf (pp. 171-198). Uppsala: Iustus förlag. [BibTeX]
Argren, R. & Jonsson, J. (2023). Concluding remarks: Where to Next: Closing Gaps. In: Rigmor Argren; Jessica Jonsson, Child rights in humanitarian crisis: improving action and response (pp. 204-208). Abingdon: Routledge. [BibTeX]
Jonsson, J. (2023). Digitalising children's humanitarian access: A way to enhance children's inclusion. In: Rigmor Argren; Jessica Jonsson, Child rights in humanitarian crisis: improving action and response (pp. 56-83). Abingdon: Routledge. [BibTeX]
Jonsson, J. & Argren, R. (2023). Introduction: Children's crisis response in need of improvement. In: Rigmor Argren; Jessica Jonsson, Child rights in humanitarian crisis: improving action and response. Abingdon: Routledge. [BibTeX]
Jonsson, J. (2022). Children's right to participate in matters that affect them: international access to an effective legal remedy and sustainable development. In: Ramón Brais; Freire Braña; Zulima Sánchez Sánchez, Foresight and regulation: Anticipatory governance and administrative foresight in times of transition and recovery (pp. 245-269). Cizur Meno Spain: Thomson Reuters Aranzadi. [BibTeX]
Jonsson, J. (2022). Humanitarismo Digitalizado: Hacia la Inclusión Digital de los Niños y la Acción Anticipatoria. In: Miguel Eiros Bachiller; Zulima Sánchez Sánchez, Regulación con prospectiva de futuro y de consenso: Gobernanza anticipatoria y Prospectiva administrativa. Cizur Menor (Navarra): Thomson Reuters Aranzadi. [BibTeX]

Collections (editor)

Jonsson, J. (ed.) & Kristoffersson, M. (ed.) (2025). Lagar och vägar: Juristprogrammets 20-årsjubileum vid Örebro universitet (1ed.).. Iustus förlag. [BibTeX]
Argren, R. (ed.) & Jonsson, J. (ed.) (2023). Child Rights in Humanitarian Crisis: improving action and response (1ed.). London: Routledge (Routledge humanitarian studies ). [BibTeX]

Conference papers

Jonsson, J. (2025). Criminalized Economies of War: Framing Grievable Lives in Southern Sudan. Paper presented at BISA-ISA Joint International Workshops 2025: Transforming the International: Scholarship and Solidarity in a World of Inequalities, Newcastle Civic Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, October 10-12, 2025. [BibTeX]
Jonsson, J. (2025). ICC Trust Fund: for Victims: but how?. In: The Common Constitutional Traditions in the European Union: Content and Legal Value Criminal Law. Paper presented at The 1st Summer Conference of the Neolaia Law Network (NLN), Örebro, Sweden, May 19-20, 2025. [BibTeX]
Jonsson, J. (2025). Refraiming Reparations. Paper presented at The 1st Summer Conference of the Neolaia Law Network (NLN), Örebro, Sweden, May 19-20, 2025. Örebro: [BibTeX]
Jonsson, J. (2023). Children in the Era of Digitalisation Rights: DIGITALIZED HUMANITARISM: TOWARDS THE DIGITAL INCLUSION OF CHILDREN AND THE ANTICIPATORY ACTION. Paper presented at Regulación con prospectiva de futuro y de consenso: gobernanza anticipatoria y prospectiva administrativa, University of Murcia, Spain, November 22-23, 2023. [BibTeX]
Jonsson, J. (2023). Foresight and Regulation. Anticipatory Governance and Administrative Foresight in Times of Transition and Recovery. Paper presented at Foresight Regulatory Aanalysis Seminar, Hilton University of Houston, Houston, USA, March 22-23, 2023. [BibTeX]
Jonsson, J. (2021). DIGITALIZATION and CHILDREN’S access to HUMANITARIAN PROTECTION: Children’s Right to Digital Environment in Humanitarian Situations. In: New realities of Politics and Humanitarianism Between solidarity and abandonment. Paper presented at 6th International Humanitarian Studies Conference, Paris, France, November 3-5, 2021. [BibTeX]
Jonsson, J. (2018). A legal, political and moral foundation for CRC OPSC 3?. In: (Re-)Shaping Boundaries in Crisis and Crisis Response. Paper presented at 5th bi-annual conference of the International Humanitarian Studies Association, The Hague, The Netherlands, August 27-29, 2018. [BibTeX]
Jonsson, J. (2012). Juridisk semiotik och flytktingbarnets mänskliga rättigheter. In: Barnrätt i Riksdagen. Paper presented at Barnrättsakademin vid Riksdagens tvärpolitiska barngrupp 17 oktober 2012. Stockholm: Sveriges Riksdag. [BibTeX]

Daily newspapers

Jonsson, J. & Jansson, S. (2012). Möt barnen i deras vardag. Nerikes Allehanda. [BibTeX]

Doctoral theses, monographs

Jonsson, J. (2005). Assimilated justice for the actors by the international core crimes: Towards a legitimate assimilated justice paradigm of criminal and restorative justice aims. (Doctoral dissertation). Florence, Italy: European University Institute. [BibTeX]