SHORT C.V. Name Title :Birgitta Nyström :Prof. Dr. Date of Birth :23 April 1957 Nationality :Swedish Education :Dr. of Laws 1990 Present Position Prof. of Private Law, Faculty of Law, University of Lund, Sweden. During the period 2009-2015 the Swedish Council s for Working Life and Social Research Chair in Labour Law, especially EU labour law and international labour law in a Swedish and Nordic perspective Professional Experience and Assignments Senior lecturer, Dept. of Business Law, Lund University 1990-1995. Prof. pro temps of Business Law, Lund University 1995-1999. Prof. of Law, Dept. of Law, Umeå University 1999 2000 From 1 January 2001 Prof. of Private Law, Law Faculty, Lund University. Deputy Dean, Law Faculty, 2003-2008. Member of the Board of the State Mediation Office 1993- Member of the Board of the Office of Labour Market Policy Evaluation 1999-2005 Member of the Board of the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research 2000-2006. Chairperson of the Council s Evaluation Committee regarding labour market research Member of the Board of Appeals for Higher Education 2001-2007 Member of the steering group for Centre for European Studies 2002-2008 Member of the Swedish Federation of Unemployment Insurance Funds Research Committee 2003- Member of the Board of ACLU/Work Environment College at Lund University 2003- Vice Chairperson of the Board of the Law Faculty 2003-2008 Vice Chairperson of the Law Faculty s Research Committee 2003-2008 Chairperson of the Law Faculty s Committee for Equality and Non-Discrimination 2003-2008 Member of the Regional Ethical Review Board 2004-2006 Chairperson of the Nordic Scientific Evaluation Board for legal science in Norway, 2006 Member of the steering group for the research programme Europe in Transition, the Norwegian Research Council 2007- Member of the European Social Committee (within the European Council) 2007- Member of the Governing Body (Kuratorium) for the Institute for Labour Law and Labour Relations, Trier University (Germany) 2009- Senior Advisory Board Member of the European Labour Law Journal 2009-
Member of the Editorial Committee for EU och arbetsrätten (EU and labour law, a Nordic journal) 2009- Member of the editorial board for the series Studies in Employment and Social Policy (Kluwer) 2011- Research Profile Collective labour law with an industrial relations focus and Nordic labour law in a European and international labour law perspective. Research Projects and Networks (a selection of) Developments in the Swedish Labour Market System in a European Perspective. Project Leader 1995-1998. Integration in the Oresund Area. 1998-2000. Free Movement of Workers. Implementation in Sweden. Project leader 1998-2005. Collective Bargaining in the Member States of the European Union 2003-2005 The Acquired Rights Directive. Implementation in Sweden. Project leader 1998-2004. Industrial Relations - A New Discipline in Swedish Research. Member of the project group 1999-2008 Swedish Labour Law Network 1998- Conferences Organiser of, or participant in, numerous conferences, seminars, work shops etc. Mostly in the area of international comparative labour law projects. See the publication list. Doctoral supervisor Head supervisor to 2 doctoral students having been awarded doctoral degrees. Assistant supervisor to 1 doctoral student having been awarded a licentiate degree. At the moment head supervisor for 3 doctoral students (two in labour law, one in intellectual property law).
Publications (a selection of) Nyström, Medling i arbetstvister (Mediation in Labour Disputes) (diss.). Norstedts 1990. Nyström, Slutbudsmetoden ett sätt att lösa tvister på arbetsmarknaden utan konflikt. (Finaloffer arbitration. A way of solving disputes on the labour market without conflict.) Ds 1992:88. Nyström (ed), Den svenska arbetsrätten i ett nytt Europa (Swedish Labour Law in the New Europe). Carlssons 1993. Nyström, Kollektivavtalets ställning i EG (The Role of Collective Agreements in the Eruopean Community), Studier i arbetsrätt tillägnade Tore Sigeman. Iustus förlag 1993. Nyström Sweden in Blanpain/Hanami (eds) European Works Councils. The Implementation of the Directive in the Member States of the European Union. Peeters 1995. Nyström (together with Edlund), Arbetsrätt i förändring (Developments in Labour Law). Nerenius & Santérus förlag 1995. Nyström (together with Blanpain), EU/EG arbetsätt och arbetsmarknad (EU/EC labour law and industrial relations). Publica 1996 (with supplement). Nyström, Stridsåtgärder på en modern arbetsmarknad. (Industrial Conflict and the Modern Labour Market). Arbetsmarknad & Arbetsliv 1/1997. Nyström Sweden in Blanpain (ed) Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union. Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations 32, Kluwer 1998. Nyström, Kollektivavtalet en säregen avtalstyp (The collective agreement a special kind of agreement) in Gorton/Nyström (ed.), Variationer på ett obligationsrättsligt tema. Handelsrättslig skriftserie 13, 1998. Nyström Community Labour Law a Challenge to the Swedish Model? in Labour Law and Industrial Relations at the Turn of the Century. Kluwer 1998. Nyström European Works Council. Sweden in Blanpain (ed), International Encyclopaedia of Labour Law and Industrial Relations. (Sept. 1998) Nyström Sweden in Blanpain/Biagi (eds) Private Employment Agencies. Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations. Kluwer 1999. Nyström Nya samarbetsavtal på den svenska arbetsmarknaden eller skärpt lagstiftning om medling och stridsåtgärder? (New cooperation agreements on the Swedish labour market or new legislation about mediation and industrial disputes?) in Andreasen/Nielsen (eds), Septemberforliget 100 år (The Danish September Agreement 100 years). Copenhagen 1999. Nyström, Arbetsrätten och integrationen i Öresundsregionen, (Labour Law and Integration in the Oresund Area) in Flodgren/Nielsen (eds), Law in the Oresund Area, Copenhagen 2000.
Nyström, Regleringsfomernas och aktörernas ställning vid normeringen av framtidens arbetsmarknad (Ways of regulating the labour market and labour market actors in the future) in Numhauser-Henning (red.), Normativa perspektiv. Festskrift till Anna Christensen. Juristförlaget i Lund 2000. Nyström, Överlåtelsedirektivets tillämpning vid övergång av offentlig verksamhet (The Acquired Rights Directive and the Public Sector) in Festskrift till Hans Stark. Arbetsrättsliga föreningens skrifter 2001. The Legal Regulation of Employment Agencies and Employment-leasing Companies in Sweden. International Law & Policy Journal Volume 23, No 1, 2003. Nyström Temporary Agency Work in Sweden in Blanpain/Graham (eds.) Temporary Agency Work and the Information Society. Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations 50. Kluwer 2003. Nyström, Sweden in Blanpain (ed.) Smoking and the workplace. Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations 54. Kluwer 2004. Nyström, The evolving structure of collective bargaining in Sweden (1990-2003). Report to the EU Commission. Nyström (together with Lundell), Industrial Relations och den svenska arbetsrätten (Industrial Relations and Swedish Labour Law) in Nyström/Westregård/Vogel (eds.), Liber Amicorum Reinhold Fahlbeck (2005). Nyström, Bevakning av kollektivavtals efterlevnad (Effective Monitoring of Compliance with Collective Agreements), SOU 2005:89 (Inquiry Chair of the Government s Inquiry) Nyström, Medling och lagstiftaren (Mediation and Legislation), in Nyström/Egerö (ed.) Medlingsinstitutet 100 år, 2006. Nyström, International Trade and Labour Law - Sweden. Report to XVIII World Congress International Society for Labour Law and Social Security. Paris September 2006. Nyström, Telework and Labour Law in Sweden, in Blanpain (ed.), European Framework Agreement and Telework. Bulleting of Comparative Labour Relations 62, Kluwer 2007. Nyström, Svensk arbetsrätt i ett Europaperspektiv (Swedish Labour Law in a European Perspective), in Flodgren/Gorton/Nyström/Samuelsson (eds.), Vänbok till Axel Adlercreutz. Juristförlaget i Lund 2007. Nyström, Kollektivavtalet ett flexibelt regleringsinstrument (Collective Agreement a Flexible Instrument for Regulation), in Lindell-Frantz et. Al. Festskrift till Lars Gorton. Juristförlaget i Lund 2007. Nyström, Diversity, Equality and Integration. Law and Practive: Swedish Country Report, in Blanpain (ed), Diversity, Equality and Integration. Vanden Broele 2008.
Nyström, Stridsåtgärder en grundläggande rättighets som kan begränsas av den fria rörligheten (Industrial Action a Fundamental Right Restricted by Free Movement), JT Nr 4, 2007-08. Nyström Sweden, in Blanpain/Grant (eds.), Fixed Term Employment Contracts. A Comparative Study. Vanden Broele 2009. Adlercretuz/Nyström Sweden, International Encyclopaedia of Labour Law and Industrial Relations. Kluwer 2009. Nyström, Svensk rätts internationella beroende (Swedish Law Dependent on International Law) i Staaf/Zandering, Rätt och Rättssystem. Liber 2009. Nyström, The future of European Labour Law the Nordic Perspective. European Labour Law Journal No 1, 2010. Nyström, Final judgment in the Laval case. European Labour Law Journal, No 2, 2010. Nyström, Grundläggande rättigheter i EG-rätten påverkan på svensk lagstifning och rättspraxis (Fundamental Rights in EU Law influences on Swedish legislation and practice), in Staaf/Zanderin (eds.), Mänskliga rättigheter i svensk belysning. 2nd ed. Studentlitteratur 2011. Nyström, SOU 2011:5 Bemanningsdirektivets genomförande i svensk rätt (Inquiry Chair proposing how the EU Directive on temporary agency work is to be implemented in Swedish national law). Nyström, EU och arbetsrätten (The European Union and Labour Law). Norstedts Juridik, 4 th ed. 2011. Nyström, Kan Lissabonfördraget ge arbetsrätten större tyngd? (Can the Treaty of Lisbon strengthen labour law?) in Lindell-Frantz/Moberg/Nyström/Olsson, Festskrift till Boel Flodgren. Juristförlaget i Lund 2011.