Jacob Öberg

Dr Jacob Öberg is a Full Professor of European Union Law at the Law Department at the University of Southern Denmark, Visitng Professor in EU Law at Örebro University and a Visiting Fellow at Lund University, Faculty of Law. He previously held positions as Associate Professor in EU law at Örebro University (where he acted as Deputy Head of Department) and as a Postdoctoral Fellow in law at Lund University. He earned his PhD in European Law from the European University Institute in Florence. His research interests lie primarily in EU constitutional law and EU criminal law, including: multidisciplinary and contextual perspectives on EU law, theories of EU integration, the federal dimension of EU law, and the Union's criminal policy and its development under the Lisbon Treaty. His work has been cited by the European Parliament (where he also been consulted as an expert on the legislative file on violence against women) and he been involved as an expert on EU legislation in several major consulting projects with the European Commission.