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Professor Pernilla Leviner

Pernilla

Professor in Public Law, Faculty of Law, Stockholm Centre for the Rights of the Child, Stockholm University, Sweden

Email: pernilla.leviner@juridicum.su.se

Profile

Pernilla Leviner is Professor in public Law with specific focus on welfare law and child protection. Her research deals with different aspects of the relation between the state, the family and the individual, including children’s rights often focusing on the responsibility and role of public authorities. She is connected to the Stockholm Centre for the Rights of the Child and is the General Editor of the Stockholm Studies in Child Law and Children’s Rights, published by Brill Nijhoff as well as the editor of the Nordic Journal of Social Welfare Law.

Research

Publications

In English, selection:

Leviner, P., Children as bearers of rights or bearers of problems? – Shifts, contradictions and challenges in Swedish child welfare law in the context of combatting gang crime and fatal shootings, i Daly, A, Thorburn Stern, R. & Leviner, P. (Red.) Treated like a child – age discrimination and children´s rights, Stockholm Studies in Child Law and Children’s Rights, Vol. VIII, Brill Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden, kommande 2025

Pålsson, D., Leviner, P. & Wiklund, S., Children’s right to participation in Swedish child welfare – the extent, nature and determinants of child interviews during investigations, Child abuse & neglect, Vol. 162, Nr. 1, 2025

Daly, A., Thorburn Stern, R. & Leviner, P., UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 2 and Discrimination on the basis of Childhood – The CRC Paradox?, Nordic Journal of International Law, Vol., 91, Nr. 3, 2022

Leviner, P. & Holappa, T., Child Rights Without Substance? – Swedish public welfare and the invisibility of children in economic support cases i Adami, R., Aspan, M. & Kaldal, A. (Eds.), The Rights of the Child: legal, political and ethical challenges, Stockholm Studies in Child Law and Children’s Rights, Vol. 7, Brill Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden, 2023

Leviner, P., Who has the last say – on trust and legal uncertainty in Swedish health care, i Goold, I., Auckland, C. & Herring, J. (Red.), Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Young Children, Hart Publishing, 2020

Leviner, P., Voice but no choice – children’s right to participation in Sweden, i Haugli, T. m.fl. (Eds.) Children’s constitutional rights in the Nordic countries, Stockholm Studies in Child Law and Children’s Rights, Vol. 5, Brill Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden, 2019

Leviner, P., The Nuclear Norm and the Free-form Family – Parallel Paths in Swedish Family Law, i Herring, J. & Choudry, S. (Red.), Cambridge Companion to Comparative Family Law, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2019

Leviner, P., Child participation in the Swedish child protection system – child-friendly focus but limited child influence on outcomes, International Journal of Children’s Rights, Vol. 26, Nr. 1, 2018

Leviner, P. & Sardiello, T., The Swedish ban on corporal punishment of children in a multi-cultural context – conflicting logics in the Social Services, i Saunders, B., Leviner, P. & Naylor. B. (Eds.), Corporal Punishment of Children – Comparative Legal and Social Developments towards Prohibition and Beyond, Stockholm Studies in Child Law and Children’s Rights, Vol. 4, Brill Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden, 2018

Leviner, P., Child Protection Under Swedish Law – Legal Duality and Uncertainty, European Journal of Social Work, Vol. 17, Nr. 2, 2014

Expertise

Child protection, Children's right to participation, Non-discriminiation, Welfare law, Poverty
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