Jessica Jonsson
Jessica Jonsson Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Behavioural, Social and Legal SciencesEmail: amVzc2ljYS5qb25zc29uO29ydS5zZQ==
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Room: L2501a
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).
Research projects
Active projects
- Adoption and child protection: European perspectives
- Building Consensus for a sustainable Future: Anticipatory Governance and Administrative Foresight
- The silent violence
- Mis(sing) Information
- Segregating Processes, Vulnerabilities, and Exclusions: Socio-Legal Challenges for Undocumented Migrant Women in Sweden
- Torn Apart: Structural Racism and the Targeting of Muslim Mothers by Child Welfare
- Trust and Legal Certainty in Preventive Social-Service Interventions: for sustainable social services
- Training Legal Professionals in EU Law for Ukraines EU Integration