Katarina Hyltén-Cavallius

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Dr. Katarina Hyltén‑Cavallius (LL.M., Ph.D.) is Head of Department of the Department of Law; and Associate Professor (Docent) of European Law at Linnaeus University (Linnéuniversitetet), Sweden.

Her scholarship is situated in both Swedish law and EU law, where she focuses on public law and administrative law, in particular, on issues of nationality law, residence law, social security law, and free movement.

She currently serves as Head of the Department of Law (2026 - ), and has served in several senior academic leadership roles within Linnaeus University, including Acting Head of the Department of Law (2025-2026), Deputy Head of the Department of Law (2025-2025), Programme Director for the Bachelor’s Programme in Legal Studies (2024-2025), and membership of the Leadership Council of the Faculty of Social Sciences (2025-). She is centrally involved in the university’s strategic efforts in establishing an accredited law degree programme.

Dr. Hyltén-Cavallius has authored two monographs, Uppehållsrätten: EU/EES‑medborgare och deras familjemedlemmar (Stockholm: Norstedts Juridik, 2024), and EU Citizenship at the Edges of Freedom of Movement (Oxford: Hart Publishing/Bloomsbury, 2020), and has co-edited/co-editing two anthologies, EU Social Security Coordination: Contemporary Challenges and Future Directions (Oxford: Hart Publishing/Bloomsbury, 2027), and Free Movement of Persons in the Nordic States: EU Law, EEA Law, and Regional Cooperation (Oxford: Hart Publishing/Bloomsbury, 2023).

She has published widely in leading law journals/law reviews, both in Swedish and internationally. She has contributed to numerous edited volumes with the major academic publishers, served as peer reviewer for numerous journals, and frequently delivers lectures and seminars at other Swedish, Nordic, and European universities, as well as delivering her annual course for judges in the Swedish judicial system.

Academic and legal positions

• Head of Department (prefekt), Department of Law, Faculty of Social Sciences, Linnaeus University, Växjö/Kalmar, Sweden (2026- ).
• Acting Head of Department (Tf prefekt), Department of Law, Faculty of Social Sciences, Linnaeus University, Växjö/Kalmar, Sweden (2025-2026).
• Associate Professor (Docent) of European Law, Linnaeus University, Växjö/Kalmar, Sweden (2024-).
• Senior Lecturer in Law, Department of Law, Faculty of Social Sciences, Linnaeus University, Växjö/Kalmar, Sweden (2024-).
• Lecturer in Law, Department of Social Work and the Department of Law, Faculty of Social Sciences, Linnaeus University, Växjö/Kalmar, Sweden (2022-2024).
• Assistant Professor of EU Law, Department of Law, Aarhus University, Denmark (2017-2023).
• Doctoral Research Fellow in EU Law, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen (2014-2017).
• Stagiaire, Cabinets of the Judge Carl Gustav Fernlund and Advocate General Henrik Saugmandsgaard Øe, Court of Justice, Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg (2016).
• Legal Officer and Law Clerk (föredragande jurist and notarie), Administrative Court of Malmö (2014).
• Trainee lawyer, Deloitte AB, Malmö, Sweden (2012).
• International Fellow, UN World Food Programme (WFP), Cotonou, Benin (2010).

Leadership positions

• Head of Department (prefekt), Faculty of Social Sciences, Linnaeus University, Växjö/Kalmar, Sweden (2026- ).
• Acting Head of Department (Tf prefekt), Faculty of Social Sciences, Linnaeus University, Växjö/Kalmar, Sweden (2025-2026).
• Deputy Head of Department, Department of Law, Faculty of Social Sciences, Linnaeus University, Växjö/Kalmar, Sweden (2025).
• Department Chair, Department of Law, Faculty of Social Sciences, Linnaeus University, Växjö/Kalmar, Sweden (2025-).
• Member of the Faculty Leadership Council, Faculty of Social Sciences, Linnaeus University (2025-).
• Programme Director, Bachelor’s Programme in Legal Studies, Department of Law, Faculty of Social Sciences, Linnaeus University, Växjö/Kalmar, Sweden (2024-2025).
• Internationalisation Lead, Department of Law, Faculty of Social Sciences, Linnaeus University, Växjö/Kalmar, Sweden (2025-).
• Chair of the Programme Board for Legal Studies, Department of Law, Faculty of Social Sciences, Linnaeus University, Växjö/Kalmar, Sweden (2024-2025).
• Member of the University Supervisory and Doctoral Training Committee (HLK), Department of Law, Faculty of Social Sciences, Linnaeus University, Växjö/Kalmar, Sweden (2024-).

Expert and public appointments

• Legal Expert, MoveS Network (Free Movement of Workers and Social Security Coordination), European Commission (2020-).
• Lecturer, EU free movement and migration law, Domstolsakademin (Swedish Judicial Training Academy) (2023-).

Academic education and qualifications

• Docent (Associate Professor) in European Law, Linnaeus University (2024).
• Doctoral degree in Law (Ph.D.), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen (2017).
• Juristexamen (LL.M.), University of Gothenburg (2012).
• Bachelor degree (B.A.) in French, University of Gothenburg (2008).

Pedagogical education and qualifications

• Supervision Training Programme, Linnaeus University (2023-2024).
• Higher Education Pedagogy, Linnaeus University (2023).
• University Teaching Training (adjunktpædagogikum), Centre for Teaching and Learning, Aarhus University (2018-2019).

Research areas (general)

• Public law.
• Administrative law.
• Social law.
• EU law.

Research areas (specialised)

• EU citizenship.
• EU free movement and internal market law.
• EU migration and welfare law.
• EU human rights law.
• EU social security coordination.
• EU administrative and constitutional law.
• Nordic free movement and cross‑border cooperation.
• Residence rights of EU citizens and family members.
• Access to welfare and equal treatment.
• Derived residence rights and family reunification.
• Loss and acquisition of nationality and EU citizenship.
• Nordic labour mobility and regional legal integration.
• Cross‑border welfare administration and identity‑number systems.
• Europeanisation of property rights law.

Teaching areas

• Public law.
• Administrative law.
• Social law.
• Constitutional law.
• EU free movement law.
• EU constitutional law.
• EU human rights law.
• Legal methods.

Books

• EU Social Security Coordination: Contemporary Challenges and Future Directions (Oxford: Hart Publishing/Bloomsbury, 2027) [co-editor].
• Uppehållsrätten: EU/EES‑medborgare och deras familjemedlemmar (Stockholm: Norstedts Juridik, 2024) [author].
• Free Movement of Persons in the Nordic States: EU Law, EEA Law, and Regional Cooperation (Oxford: Hart Publishing/Bloomsbury, 2023) [co-editor].
• EU Citizenship at the Edges of Freedom of Movement (Oxford: Hart Publishing/Bloomsbury, 2020) [author].

Journal articles and book chapters

• Journal articles and book chapters (in both Swedish and English) in various locations, including, the Common Market Law Review, European Constitutional Law Review, European Public Law, European Journal of Migration and Law, European Journal of Social Security, Nordic Journal of European Law, Svensk Juristtidning, Europarättslig tidskrift, inter alia.

Research funding

• Principal investigator, project on labour‑market integration of third‑country nationals in Öresund region Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris; and the European Commission, Brussels (2023-2025).
• Principal investigator, principal investigator, project on Europeanisation of Swedish property law, Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry (KSLA), Stockholm (2022-2024).

Invited lectures and seminars, and talks (select)

• Co-organiser and chair, EU Social Security Coordination: Contemporary Challenges and Future Directions, Vrije Universiteit Brussels (2026)
• Lecturer, EU Free Movement and Migration Law, Swedish Judicial Training Academy (Domstolsakademin), Stockholm (2023-).
• Keynote speaker, National launch events of Europaperspektiv, Stockholm and Malmö, 2024).
• Speaker, Twenty Years of the Free Movement Directive, School of Law, University of Edinburgh (2024).
• Speaker, Socio-Economic Rights and Non- Discrimination at the Intersection of the Market, the Border, and the Welfare State, Faculty of Law, Lund University (2024).
• Speaker, Time, Temporalities and Migration Law: International seminar on the role and meaning of time in Migration Law, Faculty of Law, Uppsala University (2024).
• Speaker, Linnaeus Law Talks, Department of Law, Faculty of Social Sciences, Linnaeus University (2024).
• Speaker, EU Law Discussion Group, Department of Law, University of Gothenburg University (2024).